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New York Times, Tuesday, October 4, 1994

Author:
Stanley B. Whitten
Editor:
Will Shortz
45-Down : Gertrude's son
TotalDebutLatest
1810/16/19846/25/1998
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ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
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Stanley B. Whitten

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 10 for Mr. Whitten. Tuesday freshness: 47%
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© 1994, The New York Times10/4/94 ( No. 16,401 )
Across
1
Beaver projects : DAMS
5
Service item : PLATE
10
Conceal : HIDE
14
Of grand proportions : EPIC
15
Flushed, as the cheeks : ROSED
16
North Sea feeder : YSER
17
20
Maximal : EXTREME
21
Covered with scales : SCURFY
22
Hellenic H : ETA
23
Evocative of an earlier time, as fashion : RETRO
24
Treadless : BALD
27
Excursion : TOUR
29
Paul Anka's "___ a Lady" : SHES
33
Mil. address : APO
34
Ride the waves : SURF
35
Raise : HIKEUP
37
Rossini opera, with "The" : BARBEROFSEVILLE
40
Card game for two : ECARTE
41
Tax deferral plans : IRAS
42
Command to Dobbin : GEE
43
Actress Olin : LENA
44
Where some chichi ski : VAIL
45
Difficult : HARD
46
Part of Iberia : SPAIN
49
"Ode ___ Nightingale" : TOA
51
Medicinal amount : DOSAGE
53
1975 Beatty-Hawn film : SHAMPOO
57
Small pooch : MEXICANHAIRLESS
59
Toward shelter : ALEE
60
Counting everything : INALL
61
Denoting certain textbook publishers : ELHI
62
Fastens : PINS
63
Spruce : NATTY
64
Society gatherings : TEAS
Down
1
Proofreader's mark : DELE
2
Summit : APEX
3
Catcher's glove : MITT
4
Tallied : SCORED
5
Early : PREMATURE
6
Misplace : LOSE
7
Bat wood : ASH
8
Come-on : TEASER
9
Undemocratic law : EDICT
10
Seaplane attachment : HYDROSKI
11
"Time ___ the essence" : ISOF
12
Moist : DEWY
13
Coastal flier : ERN
18
After taxes : NET
19
Capek drama : RUR
23
Bully : RUFFIAN
24
Noisy confusion : BABEL
25
Quickly : APACE
26
Navigational system : LORAN
28
Spanish gold : ORO
30
Hagar's better half, in the comics : HELGA
31
Swiss mathematician : EULER
32
1994 movie thriller : SPEED
34
Bullheaded : SET
35
Salutarily : HEALTHILY
36
Hosp. devices : IVS
38
Number two woods : BRASSIES
39
___ Lanka : SRI
44
Type of sausage : VIENNA
45
Gertrude's son : HAMLET
47
Busy election-year org. : PAC
48
Once more : AGAIN
50
Pull, at sea : OAR
51
Sandwich shop : DELI
52
Farm team : OXEN
53
NaCl : SALT
54
Soccer great : PELE
55
Worker-welfare watchdog: Abbr. : OSHA
56
Medical suffix : OSIS
57
Glove compartment item : MAP
58
Sombrero, e.g. : HAT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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