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New York Times, Wednesday, April 20, 1994

Author:
Walter Webb
Editor:
Will Shortz
10-Down : Self-ish folks
TotalDebutLatest
41/22/19783/25/1995
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
2001001
ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.441269%
Walter Webb

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 39 Missing: {BHJKQWXZ} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Webb. Wednesday freshness: 86%
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© 1994, The New York Times4/20/94 ( No. 16,234 )
Across
1
Garden tool : SPADE
6
"Gimme Shelter" band, with "the" : STONES
12
Explain visually : DIAGRAM
14
Brecht's "Mother ___" : COURAGE
15
With 16-Across, Canadian speech : ONTARIO
16
Anagram of 15-Across : ORATION
17
Kind of fingerprinting, nowadays : DNA
18
Pollen holder : STAMEN
20
By way of : VIA
21
Left-fielder Ron : GANT
23
"For" words : YESES
24
Screen ___ : TEST
25
Dubai royalty : EMIRS
27
Lush : SOT
28
Suffix with kitchen : ETTE
29
Reminisce : RECALL
31
Siege site : FORTRESS
34
Midafternoon on a sundial : III
35
Suffix with sonnet : EER
36
Make no change : STANDPAT
41
Iced dessert : FRAPPE
45
Heavy reading? : TOME
46
One for the road : CAR
48
La Scala locale : MILAN
49
Banned apple spray : ALAR
50
Error's partner : TRIAL
52
Druggie's nemesis : NARC
53
Ukr. neighbor : RUS
54
Land of ancient Smyrna : AEOLIA
55
Earl Grey, e.g. : TEA
56
With 58-Across, hires recording artists again : RESIGNS
58
Anagram of 56-Across : SINGERS
61
___ list : ENEMIES
62
Enrage : INCENSE
63
Satrap : DESPOT
64
Ad signs : NEONS
Down
1
Like Rushdie's verses : SATANIC
2
Tour org. : PGA
3
T.W.A. info : ARR
4
Kind of wheel : DAISY
5
Hams it up : EMOTES
6
Boils : SORES
7
Malaysian gent's title : TUAN
8
Table scrap : ORT
9
Ingenue's trait : NAIVETE
10
Self-ish folks : EGOISTS
11
Upper chambers : SENATES
12
Ebbets Field player : DODGER
13
___ only : INNAME
14
Regain consciousness : COMETO
19
Beginning (then) : ASOF
22
With 24-Down, instructor's turf : TRAINER
24
Anagram of 22-Down : TERRAIN
26
Coasted : SLID
30
Back talk : LIP
32
Person in stripes : REF
33
Four years, for a President : TERM
36
Headlined : STARRED
37
The second T in TNT : TOLUENE
38
Accumulates : AMASSES
39
Puzzle direction : ACROSS
40
Follow : TAIL
42
Typewriter rollers : PLATENS
43
Price cutters, in a sense : PARERS
44
Box up : ENCASE
47
___ bran : RAISIN
50
Believe it : TENET
51
Singer Frankie : LAINE
54
Currency premium : AGIO
57
Rascal : IMP
59
Enlisted V.I.P. : NCO
60
A superior of 59-Down : GEN

Answer summary:
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