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New York Times, Wednesday, December 13, 1995

Author:
Ernie Furtado
Editor:
Will Shortz
21-Down : Coring tools
TotalDebutLatest
3011/5/198612/13/1995
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
5734245
RebusCircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
111.47711837%
Ernie Furtado

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 80, Blocks: 38 This is puzzle # 30 for Mr. Furtado. Wednesday freshness: 16%
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A
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G
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E
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S
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M
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B
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ONE
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D
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© 1995, The New York Times12/13/95 ( No. 16,836 )
Across
1
Long time : AGES
5
Son of Venus : AMOR
9
Exhaust a person : DOONEIN
14
"Cheers" stoolie? : NORM
15
Western wine valley : NAPA
16
Prefix with centrism : ETHNO
17
Some exercises : YOGA
18
Fed : TMAN
19
South Sea isle : ATOLL
20
Dangerous drink : ONEFORTHEROAD
23
Classic auto : REO
24
Numerical prefix : TRI
25
Atlanta-based cable channel : TNT
26
Fast fliers : SSTS
27
Unaided : BYONESELF
31
"...baked in ___" : APIE
33
Ticket info : ROW
34
Ask urgently : PLEAD
37
___ pink : INTHE
40
Wanted-poster letters : AKA
41
Usually : ASARULE
43
Alley ___ : OOP
44
Senior member : DOYEN
46
Kind of sax : TENOR
47
Court : WOO
48
Letter encl. : SASE
50
Missions : ERRANDS
52
Accusation from Caesar : ETTU
54
Big band ___ : ERA
57
Ballad ending : EER
58
Broadcast : AIR
59
Single engagement : ONENIGHTSTAND
64
Calliope power : STEAM
66
Café additive : LAIT
67
Novello of old films : IVOR
68
"Maria ___" (40's hit) : ELENA
69
Book after II Chronicles : EZRA
70
Utah's state flower : SEGO
71
Pretend : LETON
72
Dates : SEES
73
De ___ (too much) : TROP
Down
1
Whoever : ANYONE
2
Make a boo-boo : GOOF
3
Hence : ERGO
4
Intelligence : SMARTS
5
Workers' homes : ANTHILLS
6
Rosalind Russell Broadway role : MAME
7
Certain abstract paintings : OPART
8
Babbled : RANON
9
Out of juice : DEAD
10
Polo Grounds great : OTT
11
12
Cove : INLET
13
Court pleas, briefly : NOLOS
21
Coring tools : TREPANS
22
One-time link : ATA
26
Kind of fax : SIN
27
Slender nail : BRAD
28
John's mate : YOKO
29
It's marked with an arrow : ONEWAYSTREET
30
Guinness record, maybe : FEAT
32
Cardin and Curie : PIERRES
35
"Right you ___!" : ARE
36
High point at the shore : DUNE
38
Punk : HOOD
39
Homeric poetry : EPOS
42
Swit and Young : LORETTAS
45
Water in a fontaine : EAU
49
Donne's dusk : EEN
51
Painter : ARTIST
52
Painter's prop : EASEL
53
Sir or Dame, e.g. : TITLE
55
Heats up : RILES
56
Staring : AGAZE
59
Kind of band : ONEMAN
60
Take on : HIRE
61
Swear up and down : AVER
62
Canceled : NOGO
63
Word after ear or tear : DROP
65
Year in the Yucatán : ANO

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

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