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New York Times, Saturday, January 28, 1995

Author:
Randolph Ross
Editor:
Will Shortz
12-Down : Alpine instruction
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Randolph Ross

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FQXZ} This is puzzle # 21 for Mr. Ross. Saturday freshness: 54%
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© 1995, The New York Times1/28/95 ( No. 16,517 )
Across
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Exaggerate : STRETCH
8
More than a dash: Abbr. : TSP
11
Shaky voices : TREMOLOS
13
Singers John and Bonnie : RAITTS
17
Cats' comments : JIVETALK
18
Strip of paint : UNCOAT
19
Prayer word : AVE
20
Palindrome part : EREI
21
Asian pipe : HOOKA
22
Prerevolutionary Russian commune : MIR
23
Started from scratch : REDID
25
Preparation for drilling? : ETHER
26
Toward the Levant : EAST
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One who's not in : NERD
30
Calendar mo. : OCT
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Berth place : SLEEPINGCAR
35
Prof.'s aides : TAS
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Tampa Bay N.F.L.er : BUC
39
Waning : PETERINGOUT
41
First word of Montana's motto : ORO
42
Narrow route : PASS
43
Cuisine type : THAI
44
It's overexacting : USURY
46
River through Lake of the Ozarks : OSAGE
50
Cockpit dial: Abbr. : ALT
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Beyond the exurbs : RURAL
52
___ surgery : ORAL
53
Advanced degree : NTH
54
Contrivances : GISMOS
56
"Old soldiers ___..." : NEVERDIE
58
Stow cargo : STEEVE
59
Whiny one : SNIVELER
60
Mint : NEW
61
Unity : ONENESS
Down
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Monopoly property : STJAMES
2
Craze of 1983 : TRIVIALPURSUIT
3
Backtracks : REVERSESCOURSE
4
Glasgow uncle : EME
5
Carrier : TOTER
6
Old-time cartoonist Briggs : CLARE
7
Sank a putt : HOLED
8
1989 Broadway melodrama : TRU
9
Ancient Jewish council : SANHEDRIN
10
Embroidery loop : PICOT
12
Alpine instruction : SKIINGLESSONS
14
1960 Jayne Mansfield movie : TOOHOTTOHANDLE
15
Suffer battlefield losses : TAKECASUALTIES
16
Twitches : STARTS
24
Look : DECOR
27
Ball holder : TEE
29
Asian cereal grass : RAGI
32
Preteen romance : PUPPYLOVE
33
Impression : IDEA
34
False : NOTSO
37
Friday on TV, e.g.: Abbr. : SGT
38
French villages : BOURGS
40
Levied congregants : TITHERS
45
Japanese soup : RAMEN
47
"There ___ ghosts, you say": Noyes : ARENO
48
MacLeod of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" : GAVIN
49
Professeur's charge : ELEVE
55
Hem, not haw : SEW
57
TV cartoon chihuahua : REN

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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