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New York Times, Saturday, May 7, 1994

Author:
Bryant White
Editor:
Will Shortz
5-Down : Part of Santa's team
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Bryant White

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 41 This is puzzle # 12 for Mr. White. Saturday freshness: 65%
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© 1994, The New York Times5/7/94 ( No. 16,251 )
Across
1
Foretell : BODE
5
Recipe ingredient : DASHOFPEPPER
14
Greedy, in Grenoble : AVIDE
16
Backward: Fr. : ENARRIERE
17
Carpenter's aid : LEVEL
18
Exiles : RELEGATES
19
Oil containers : DRUMS
20
Child's measures: Abbr. : TSPS
21
Do : ACT
22
Poet ___ Wheeler Wilcox : ELLA
23
Dress necklines : VEES
24
Gridiron positions: Abbr. : RTS
25
Scold : RAG
26
District in Arabia : ASIR
28
Rock musician ___ Vicious : SID
30
Name in detective fiction : DASHIELLHAMMETT
34
"Naked Gun" hero : DREBIN
35
___ of troubles (beset on all sides) : INASEA
38
Short race : HUNDREDYARDDASH
41
Use cross hairs : AIM
42
1980's TV police comedy : ENOS
43
Hold up : ROB
44
Postgraduate science deg. : SCD
46
Comic Gilliam and namesakes : STUS
48
"The Godfather" figure : CAPO
49
"Mazel ___!" : TOV
50
Venetian blind component : SLAT
51
Tropical ray : MANTA
52
Fig marigolds : ICEPLANTS
55
Deposit in a tomb : INTER
56
Wicked one : CORRUPTER
57
Color television inventor : BAIRD
58
Bowler merchants : HABERDASHERS
59
Damsel : LASS
Down
1
Nonsense : BALDERDASH
2
Surmounted, as with gold : OVERLAID
3
Stool pigeon : DIVULGER
4
Swelling : EDEMA
5
Part of Santa's team : DASHER
6
What Bush served : ONETERM
7
Like crocodile tears : FALSE
8
Trains, informally : PREPS
9
Parts of joules : ERGS
10
Songstress Zadora : PIA
11
Firecracker : PETARD
12
Uplift : ERECT
13
Half and whole, e.g. : RESTS
15
Discontinued trains : ELS
23
Article of food : VIAND
26
Philatelist's need : ALBUM
27
Climb a pole : SHIN
28
Sea dog's ropes : STAYS
29
"___ boy!" : ITSA
31
Utah town : LEHI
32
Looks : MIENS
33
Skeleton's head : ENDO
36
Free-swimming worms with developed sense organs : ERRANTIA
37
Some parents : ADOPTERS
39
Say again : REUTTER
40
Instrument panels : DASHBOARDS
41
Quickly, to a grammarian : ADVERB
44
Line of poetry : STICH
45
Hot beverage : COCOA
46
Haphazardly : SLAPDASH
47
"La Plume de Ma ___" : TANTE
48
Waterway : CANAL
50
Put-down : SLUR
51
Kid's marble : MIB
53
Early starter : PRE
54
Promgoers: Abbr. : SRS

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

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