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New York Times, Wednesday, June 1, 1994

Author:
Bob Lubbers
Editor:
Will Shortz
6-Down : Strange to say
TotalDebutLatest
54/13/19758/1/1996
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1011110
ScrabDebutPre‑WSFresh
1.5019135%
Bob Lubbers

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FJXZ} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Lubbers. Wednesday freshness: 21%
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© 1994, The New York Times6/1/94 ( No. 16,276 )
Across
1
Monopoly purchase : HOTEL
6
___ of office : OATH
10
Singing Beatle : PAUL
14
Maytag rival : AMANA
15
German numeral : DREI
16
Shade of red : RUBY
17
Kind of dressing : RANCH
18
Boccaccio work, with "The" : DECAMERON
20
Actress Swenson : INGA
21
GLASGOW: ___:: ... : GLASWEGIAN
22
E. B. White piece : ESSAY
24
Put on ___ : ANACT
25
Toulouse tams : BERETS
27
Art ___ (master keyboardist) : TATUM
29
Get up : ARISE
30
1987 Wimbledon winner : CASH
31
Actor Jannings : EMIL
35
___Tin Tin : RIN
36
From Novi Sad : SERBIAN
39
"___ No Hooks" : USE
40
Boat's backbone : KEEL
42
Geissler tube illuminant : NEON
43
Winding paths : ESSES
45
Fall flower : ASTER
47
Long-legged shorebird : AVOCET
48
Actress June : HAVER
50
Memorable shrine : ALAMO
51
MONACO: ___:: ... : MONEGASQUE
54
Satan's doing : EVIL
57
LEM driver : ASTRONAUT
58
Ballerina Shearer : MOIRA
59
Spanish province or capital : LEON
60
Andrews Sisters, e.g. : TRIO
61
Shenanigan : ANTIC
62
Quiet street : LANE
63
Drains of stamina : SAPS
64
Ninnies : GEESE
Down
1
Mata ___ : HARI
2
Arabian sultanate : OMAN
3
TANGIER: ___:: ... : TANGERINE
4
Sheathes : ENCASES
5
___ -di-dah : LAH
6
Strange to say : ODDLY
7
Kind of rug : AREA
8
Gumshoes : TECS
9
Son of the West Wind : HIAWATHA
10
Before kickoff : PREGAME
11
Goldfinger's first name : AURIC
12
Convoy chaser : UBOAT
13
Boston suburb : LYNN
19
Waiter's handout : MENU
21
Tums target : GAS
23
Fr. holy women : STES
25
Sergeant's voice : BARK
26
Canal opened in 1825 : ERIE
27
Olden drum : TABOR
28
"It's ___ to tell a lie" : ASIN
30
Manitoba Indian : CREE
32
MOSCOW: ___ : MUSCOVITE
33
"Oh, that's what you mean!" : ISEE
34
Paris's Gare de ___ : LEST
37
Contest responders : ENTRANTS
38
St. Petersburg's river : NEVA
41
Shotz Brewery worker of 70's TV : LAVERNE
44
Gershwin's "___ to Watch Over Me" : SOMEONE
46
Utah's state flower : SEGO
47
Tankard tipple : ALE
48
Hebrew prophet : HOSEA
49
Writer Chekhov : ANTON
50
Detroit output : AUTOS
51
Shopping center : MALL
52
___ Delano (F.D.R.'s mother) : SARA
53
Witticism : QUIP
55
Spring flower : IRIS
56
Teddy material : LACE
58
People or GQ : MAG

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1 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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