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New York Times, Monday, March 7, 1994

Author:
Alex K. Justin
Editor:
Will Shortz
4-Down : Puts out of commission
TotalDebutLatest
195/21/19924/2/1998
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ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.54103557%
Alex K. Justin

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 40 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Justin. Monday freshness: 84%
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© 1994, The New York Times3/7/94 ( No. 16,190 )
Across
1
Dumbfounded : AWED
5
Acquire, as expenses : INCUR
10
Singer Campbell : GLEN
14
Colombian city : CALI
15
Hughes's plane Spruce ___ : GOOSE
16
1890's Vice President ___ P. Morton : LEVI
17
1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein hit : THESOUNDOFMUSIC
20
"You can ___ horse to..." : LEADA
21
Bridal path : AISLE
22
Predicament : BIND
24
Obote's successor : AMIN
26
l956 Comden-Green-Styne collaboration : BELLSARERINGING
33
On ___ (counting calories) : ADIET
34
Man with a title : EARL
35
Soviet space vehicle : MIR
36
Pride and envy, e.g. : SINS
37
Old hat : DATED
38
"Aurora" painter : RENI
39
Kind of cap or cream : ICE
40
Radio host of note : IMUS
41
First U.S. saint : SETON
42
1930 Gershwin musical : STRIKEUPTHEBAND
46
Sigmatism : LISP
47
Achy : SORE
48
Whiz kid : BRAIN
51
Blotto : OILED
54
1983 Herman-Fierstein musical : LACAGEAUXFOLLES
60
"Metamorphoses" poet : OVID
61
Wish granters : GENII
62
TV's Oscar : EMMY
63
Hitches : WEDS
64
Mill material : GRIST
65
Murder : DOIN
Down
1
Part of a play : ACT
2
Star of TV's "Wiseguy" : WAHL
3
"Waiting for the Robert ___" : ELEE
4
Puts out of commission : DISABLES
5
Desert critter : IGUANA
6
Persona ___ grata : NON
7
How some packages are sent : COD
8
R. & R. org. : USO
9
Ring leader? : REF
10
Sticking together : GLUING
11
Decreasingly : LESS
12
Demonic : EVIL
13
Garibaldi's birthplace : NICE
18
Keats or Shelley : ODIST
19
Popular street name : MAIN
23
Invent : DREAMUP
24
Snaps handcuffs on : ARRESTS
25
Gentle, as breezes : MILD
26
Grounds : BASIS
27
Kingly decree : EDICT
28
Passenger ship : LINER
29
Gobble : EATUP
30
"___ man with seven..." : IMETA
31
Curtain material : NINON
32
Nine-to-five routine : GRIND
37
Conks out : DIES
38
Mutinied : REBELLED
41
___-comic (play type) : SERIO
43
Long narratives : ILIADS
44
Alan, Larry or Stephen : KING
45
Tap-dance : HOOFIT
48
Crushing news : BLOW
49
Four-star review : RAVE
50
___ rain : ACID
52
Admiral Zumwalt : ELMO
53
Actress Moore : DEMI
55
Chicken's counterpart : EGG
56
Atmosphere: Prefix : AER
57
Prefix with lateral : UNI
58
Omicrons' predecessors : XIS
59
Thesaurus listing: Abbr. : SYN

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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