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New York Times, Wednesday, June 22, 1994

Author:
Arthur S. Verdesca
Editor:
Will Shortz
2-Down : Alarm, e.g.
TotalDebutLatest
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Arthur S. Verdesca

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 37 Missing: {FJQX} This is puzzle # 30 for Mr. Verdesca. Wednesday freshness: 98%
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© 1994, The New York Times6/22/94 ( No. 16,297 )
Across
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Entertain from house to house : CAROL
6
Sirs' counterparts : MADAMS
12
Horse show locales : ARENAS
14
Slow musical pieces : ADAGIOS
16
Kind of license or justice : POETIC
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Measles variety : RUBELLA
18
W.W. II German bomber : STUKA
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"From the___ of Montezuma" : HALLS
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Pascal's law : LOI
22
Part of H.R.H. : HIS
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Fixed, as a gauge : PRESET
25
Reposed : LAIN
26
Iris's place : UVEA
28
Chichi : ARTY
29
Place for belt-tightening : WAIST
30
Flooring of marble chips : TERRAZZO
32
Ibsen play : GHOSTS
33
Singer Laine : CLEO
34
Kind of suit : ZOOT
35
Strait of Dover port : CALAIS
38
Women's wide-legged pants : PALAZZOS
42
___ -garde : AVANT
43
District : ZONE
44
Orient : EAST
45
Shower attention (on) : DOTE
46
Jeans : DENIMS
48
Third-millennium year : MMI
49
"___ Along Little Dogies" : GIT
50
Gist : SENSE
51
Drum accompanying a fife : TABOR
53
Academy Award category : EDITING
55
Strainers : SIEVES
57
Quietus : DECEASE
58
Pluck, as eyebrows : TWEEZE
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Juicer : REAMER
60
Iris with a fragrant rootstock : ORRIS
Down
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Prisoner : CAPTIVE
2
Alarm, e.g. : AROUSER
3
Stink : REEK
4
Like some beer : ONTAP
5
My ___, Vietnam : LAI
6
"A Christmas Carol" specter : MARLEY
7
Not for kiddies : ADULT
8
Small flatfishes : DABS
9
Questionnaire info : AGE
10
"Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru" artist : MILLAIS
11
Recital singer : SOLOIST
13
Sonata's third movement, often : SCHERZO
15
Louisiana 11 : SAINTS
18
Folded up : SHUT
20
Respecting : ASTO
24
Demolishes : RAZES
25
Founder of Taoism : LAOTZE
27
Esoteric : ARCANE
29
Avast, on land : WHOA
31
Got off : ALIT
32
Robot, in Jewish legend : GOLEM
34
Most like the Marx Brothers : ZANIEST
35
Sponged : CADGED
36
Dodger : AVOIDER
37
Trellis : LATTICE
38
Singer Lily : PONS
39
Africa's fourth-longest river : ZAMBEZI
40
Seeps : OSMOSES
41
Pen : STIR
43
Early American publisher Peter : ZENGER
46
Stupid : DENSE
47
Beef cattle : STEER
50
Where Anna Leonowens taught : SIAM
52
Affirm : AVER
54
Japanese drink : TEA
56
W.W. II battle site, for short : IWO

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2 unique to this puzzle, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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