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New York Times, Wednesday, January 4, 1995

Author:
Stephanie Spadaccini
Editor:
Will Shortz
13-Down : Occurs, poetically
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Stephanie Spadaccini

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 38 Missing: {FQXZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 10 for Ms. Spadaccini. Wednesday freshness: 8%
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© 1995, The New York Times1/4/95 ( No. 16,493 )
Across
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Altar robes : ALBS
5
"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" group : WHAM
9
Basic ball game : CATCH
14
Kitty cry : MEOW
15
New York college : IONA
16
Council Bluffs neighbor : OMAHA
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Silly author? : ANAISNINCOMPOOP
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Like church music : SACRED
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"Dies ___" : IRAE
22
"Help!" : SOS
23
Traditional Easter fare : LAMB
25
Xenia's state : OHIO
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Not for the faint of heart : GORY
30
Senior's nest egg, for short : IRA
32
Ruined : UNDID
35
Black cuckoo : ANI
36
Tennis score : LOVE
38
Shell food? : TACOS
40
French director with ESP? : RENECLAIRVOYANT
44
Ziti or linguine : PASTA
45
Mrs. David Copperfield : DORA
46
Wind dir. : NNE
47
Pillages : LOOTS
49
Christmas quaff : NOG
50
Play the lead : STAR
51
Zola heroine : NANA
53
Unthinking : RASH
55
Write (down) : JOT
58
Peru's capital : LIMA
60
Kind of bread : RAISIN
64
Person with a polite message? : EMILYPOSTITNOTE
67
Actor Toomey : REGIS
68
The ___ Reader (eclectic magazine) : UTNE
69
Actress Raines : ELLA
70
Genuflected : KNELT
71
"Phooey!" : RATS
72
Kaiser or Parker House : ROLL
Down
1
Latin 101 verb : AMAS
2
Actress Olin : LENA
3
Bygone airline : BOAC
4
Helical : SWIRLY
5
Quixote's opponent : WINDMILL
6
___ polloi : HOI
7
Years, to Tiberius : ANNI
8
Computer shortcut : MACRO
9
Acquire by accident : COMEINTO
10
Rocker's equipment : AMP
11
___ Ski Valley, N.M. : TAOS
12
Ending for "ah" : CHOO
13
Occurs, poetically : HAPS
18
Q.E. 2 setting : SEA
19
Pearl Harbor site : OAHU
24
Bette Midler's "A View From a ___" : BROAD
26
Singer Anita : ODAY
27
John Irving title character : GARP
28
Barry Lyndon portrayer, 1975 : ONEAL
29
Detergent brand : RINSO
31
Word on a French postcard : AVION
33
Pessimist's phrase : ICANT
34
Part of DKNY : DONNA
37
Boo-boo : ERROR
39
Ending with seam or team : STER
41
English school : ETON
42
Instigator : CATALYST
43
Unpredictable events : VAGARIES
48
Use scissors : SNIP
50
Evidence of a fistfight : SHINER
52
It makes le monde go round : AMOUR
54
Was impassive : SAT
55
Yank : JERK
56
Foreshadowing : OMEN
57
Buster Brown's dog : TIGE
59
Nick and Nora's dog : ASTA
61
Go it alone : SOLO
62
"___ be a cold day in hell..." : ITLL
63
Actress Patricia : NEAL
65
Diamond ___ : LIL
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Explosive stuff : TNT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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