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New York Times, Monday, December 27, 1993

Author:
Joel Davajan
Editor:
Will Shortz
23-Down : Tree trunks
TotalDebutLatest
910/13/19937/4/1994
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ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.4620236%
Joel Davajan

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JXZ} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 5 for Mr. Davajan. Monday freshness: 86%
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© 1993, The New York Times12/27/93 ( No. 16,120 )
Across
1
Atop : OVER
5
Clubbed : MACED
10
Motes : DUST
14
New York Cosmos star : PELE
15
Chou___ : ENLAI
16
Oklahoma tribesman : OTOE
17
Lord Nelson site : TRAFALGARSQUARE
20
Part of an electrical switch : SOLENOID
21
Zeroes : AUGHTS
22
Hectored : RODE
23
Sans verve : BLAH
24
Medicament : REMEDY
27
Winter woe : COLD
28
Ottoman official : AGA
31
The Donald's ex : IVANA
32
Fly like Lindbergh : SOLO
33
Aits in Arles : ILES
34
Prepare for an Indian attack : CIRCLETHEWAGONS
37
Raison d' ___ : ETRE
38
30's actress Grey and others : NANS
39
Nighttime noise : SNORE
40
Beam : RAY
41
Sponsorship : EGIS
42
Feeds a furnace : STOKES
43
Belgian river : YSER
44
Baseball union boss Donald : FEHR
45
Like llamas : ANDEAN
48
Sends quickly : AIRMAILS
52
Ships' drop-off location? : BERMUDATRIANGLE
54
Sea flyer : ERNE
55
Gnawed away : EROSE
56
Composition closure : CODA
57
Crazy bird? : LOON
58
Monopoly payments : RENTS
59
Formerly : ERST
Down
1
Goes (for) : OPTS
2
___Beach, Fla. : VERO
3
Airline to Jerusalem : ELAL
4
Testimonial : REFERENCE
5
It's hummed : MELODY
6
1973 hit by the Rolling Stones : ANGIE
7
Covered : CLAD
8
The "E" in E.N.T. : EAR
9
Prohibit : DISALLOW
10
Wampum : DOUGH
11
I-70's western terminus : UTAH
12
Ilk : SORT
13
Golf course 18 : TEES
18
Of some electrodes : ANODAL
19
Printer's spacer : QUAD
23
Tree trunks : BOLES
24
Potato preparer : RICER
25
"Requiem for ___" (Broadway song) : EVITA
26
Take the plunge : MARRY
27
Lawyer Roy M. and others : COHNS
28
"Take ___ at this!" : ALOOK
29
Type : GENRE
30
Bridge of___ (Euclid proposition) : ASSES
32
Way up? : STAIR
33
Blissful state? : IGNORANCE
35
Produce : ENGENDER
36
Wheezing cause : ASTHMA
41
Birthright seller : ESAU
42
TV listing : SERIES
43
Modern-day Sheba : YEMEN
44
Tops : FIRST
45
Ex-steelworkers chief : ABEL
46
Fiery fiddler : NERO
47
1962 Bond villain : DRNO
48
Solar disk : ATON
49
Mr. Stravinsky : IGOR
50
Lawyers' degrees : LLDS
51
Install in office : SEAT
53
"___ you sure?" : ARE

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

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