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New York Times, Wednesday, February 8, 1995

Author:
Cathy Millhauser
Editor:
Will Shortz
42-Down : Middling
TotalDebutLatest
881/26/19925/15/2011
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410143552
RebusCircleScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
211.58657442%
Cathy Allis

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 42 Missing: {Y} This is puzzle # 14 for Ms. Allis. Wednesday freshness: 10%
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© 1995, The New York Times2/8/95 ( No. 16,528 )
Across
1
Italian sports car, informally : ALFA
5
Prez's helper : VEEP
9
Beat with feet : METER
14
View from some dorms : QUAD
15
Science magazine : OMNI
16
Burned up : IRATE
17
Perennial basketball powerhouse : UCLA
18
Lo-fat : LITE
19
Checkers master : NIXON
20
Elec. coolers : ACS
21
THEATRICAL : ACTORPACINO
23
Nap in Nogales : SIESTA
25
Start of 36-Down's motto : ARS
26
Type of stripe : PIN
27
Type of chatter : IDLE
29
Long March leader : MAO
32
COMICAL : CARTOONISTCAPP
36
Revealing dress : MINI
37
N.B.A. coach Unseld : WES
38
Coal-dousing sound : HISS
39
UNETHICAL : GANGSTERCAPONE
44
Skiing champ Tommy : MOE
45
Enlightenment philosopher : KANT
46
Chablis, e.g. : VIN
47
Expose : AIR
48
Occupy : ENGAGE
52
RHYTHMICAL : JAZZMANHIRT
58
Have a bout with : BOX
59
Alimentary canal section : ILEUM
60
Slave of Amneris : AIDA
61
Current 5-Across : GORE
62
Distress signal : FLARE
63
Trudge : SLOG
64
"Your turn," via radio : OVER
65
Worked with nails : FILED
66
Tunnel, e.g. : HOLE
67
Propensity : BENT
Down
1
Sea shades : AQUAS
2
Soap star Susan : LUCCI
3
Bogus : FALSE
4
Nabokov heroine : ADA
5
Stromboli, e.g. : VOLCANO
6
Radiate : EMIT
7
Within: Prefix : ENTO
8
Boardwalk abutter : PIER
9
Mosque feature : MINARET
10
Skater Heiden and others : ERICS
11
Curbside cry : TAXI
12
Beau Brummell's school : ETON
13
Escalator inventor Jesse : RENO
21
Persevering : ATIT
22
Cronies : PALS
24
Parsley part : SPRIG
27
More than lethargic : INERT
28
Platter : DISC
29
Chief : MAIN
30
Domed projection : APSE
31
Saturn's wife : OPS
32
Slangy goodbye : CIAO
33
Writer Rice : ANNE
34
TV Lawyer Marshall : OWEN
35
"Up in Smoke" co-star, 1978 : CHONG
36
"The Wizard of Oz" film company : MGM
40
Kind of milk : SKIMMED
41
Estate near Atlanta : TARA
42
Middling : AVERAGE
43
Quaff quantity : PINT
47
Skylike, maybe : AZURE
49
Heavenward : ABOVE
50
Bridge king : GOREN
51
Strain : EXERT
52
Instant : JIFF
53
1934 hit "___ Do Is Dream of You" : ALLI
54
Ardor : ZEAL
55
DeSoto contemporary : NASH
56
Hawaii County capital : HILO
57
Tiki, e.g. : IDOL
61
Good 'n' plenty amount : GOB

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4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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