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New York Times, Monday, May 29, 1995

Author:
Bernice Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
10-Down : Fun house sounds
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Bernice Gordon

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {HJQV} This is puzzle # 131 for Ms. Gordon. Monday freshness: 94%
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© 1995, The New York Times5/29/95 ( No. 16,638 )
Across
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Skewered dish: Var. : CABOB
6
Knifes : STABS
11
Bus. name ending : INC
14
Bout site : ARENA
15
Lose one's head : PANIC
16
Prefix with natal : NEO
17
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, formerly : LEWALCINDOR
19
Designer Claiborne : LIZ
20
Mauna ___ : LOA
21
Ungracefully thin : LANKY
22
Post, of etiquette : EMILY
24
Divorce demand : ALIMONY
26
Hamlet, e.g. : DANE
27
French greeting : SALUT
28
Wonderland creature : DORMOUSE
32
Rabin's people : ISRAELIS
35
"___ the ramparts we watched..." : OER
36
Bryn ___, Pa. : MAWR
39
Friend of Fran : OLLIE
40
In the distance : AFAR
41
"___ Believer" : IMA
42
Fiancée : INTENDED
44
Domed rooms : ROTUNDAS
46
Dumas's "La Tulipe ___" : NOIRE
50
Hence : ERGO
51
Make damp : MOISTEN
53
Nobelist Marie : CURIE
55
Jail door sound : CLANG
57
Clio honorees : ADS
58
Rock's ___ Rose : AXL
59
Old-time dancing song : SKIPTOMYLOU
62
Ranch call : MOO
63
Trace of color : TINGE
64
Ecclesiastical wear : AMICE
65
Old hand : PRO
66
Linksman Sam : SNEAD
67
Quarterback tackles : SACKS
Down
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Soprano Maria : CALLAS
2
Anatomical ring : AREOLA
3
Grieve : BEWAIL
4
Put ___ show : ONA
5
Votes : BALLOTS
6
Like porcupines : SPINY
7
Word with gas or Sherman : TANK
8
English prince's nickname : ANDY
9
Celebrity book : BIO
10
Fun house sounds : SCREAMS
11
Rather than : INLIEUOF
12
Playwright Simon : NEIL
13
Cover for a teapot : COZY
18
Preserve, as vegetables : CAN
23
L-P connection : MNO
25
"The Ghost and Mrs. ___" : MUIR
26
Toweled off : DRIED
28
Excises, as text : DELES
29
Actress Lena : OLIN
30
Sargasso, e.g. : SEA
31
Flub : ERR
33
Sonata section : RONDO
34
Neighbor of Sask. : ALTA
36
Russian space station : MIR
37
Amas preceder : AMO
38
Final defeat : WATERLOO
40
Hubbubs : ADOS
42
Consumes : INGESTS
43
Posers : ENIGMAS
45
Spoon-bender Geller : URI
47
Type of type : ITALIC
48
Lay to at another marina : REDOCK
49
Follows : ENSUES
51
Coupled : MATED
52
Warbler Yoko : ONO
53
Woody home : CAMP
54
Wife, in old Rome : UXOR
55
Motion picture : CINE
56
Org. overseeing courses for women? : LPGA
60
Blood, so to speak : KIN
61
Singer Sumac : YMA

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

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