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New York Times, Wednesday, June 15, 1994

Author:
Thomas W. Schier
Editor:
Will Shortz
5-Down : Interfered (with)
TotalDebutLatest
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Thomas W. Schier

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 37 Missing: {QXZ} Spans: 2 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 13 for Mr. Schier. Wednesday freshness: 99%
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© 1994, The New York Times6/15/94 ( No. 16,290 )
Across
1
Jerk : SPASM
6
Netman Kriek : JOHAN
11
Peek : GLANCE
12
Even (with) : ONAPAR
14
Bristles : ARISTAS
15
Symbol of somberness, in poetry : YEWTREE
17
Passbook amt. : DEP
18
Not a winner : ALSORAN
20
Tell (on) : RAT
21
Fishes by dangling the bait on the water : DAPS
23
Meadowlands hockey player : DEVIL
24
Lasso : ROPE
25
" ___ or lose it!" : USEIT
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June honoree : DAD
28
Farm worker : SOWER
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Xerxes ruled here : PERSIA
31
Directional sign : LEFTTURN
33
Bank burglars : YEGGS
35
Packaging material : SARAN
36
Informational sign : TOWNHALL
39
Topped : OUTDID
42
Take ___ at : ASHOT
43
Dusseldorf dessert : EIS
45
White House resignee of 1988 : MEESE
46
Team finisher : STER
47
Stenos' output : MEMOS
49
Dully colored : DRAB
50
Author Kesey : KEN
51
Indiana town near South Bend : LAPORTE
53
French city where Henry IV was born : PAU
54
Diane and Ruth : SAWYERS
56
Portray, as historical events : REENACT
58
Outbuilding : LEANTO
59
More ___ : ORLESS
60
"Following the Equator" author : TWAIN
61
Bridge seats : WESTS
Down
1
Cautionary sign : SLIPPERYWHENWET
2
Not in France : PAS
3
Theater org. : ANTA
4
Burn : SCALD
5
Interfered (with) : MESSED
6
Spur-of-the-moment trips : JOYRIDES
7
Magic's Shaquille : ONEAL
8
"Bird on a Wire" actress : HAWN
9
Meet : APT
10
Cautionary sign : NARROWUNDERPASS
11
Bribe, informally : GREASE
13
"Grim" one : REAPER
14
Make sense : ADDUP
16
Forever, to Keats : ETERN
19
Race track : OVAL
22
"Yes, sir," in Seville : SISENOR
24
Switched according to plan : ROTATED
26
Packed closely : TIGHT
28
Pluck a uke : STRUM
30
Muslim honorific : AGA
32
___ Schwarz : FAO
34
Thinks over : SLEEPSON
36
Difficult matters : TASKS
37
Bony : OSTEAL
38
Prom night transport : LIMO
40
Stern and Newton : ISAACS
41
Coming out : DEBUT
44
Juliet's was "sweet" : SORROW
47
Cuban patriot Jose : MARTI
48
Metric measure : STERE
51
Yakutsk's river : LENA
52
Sigmoid swimmers : EELS
55
Go off course : YAW
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End up with : NET

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1 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later.

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