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New York Times, Thursday, June 8, 1995

Author:
Chuck Deodene
Editor:
Will Shortz
41-Down : Faerie Queene's creator
TotalDebutLatest
4211/16/19942/26/2021
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02398128
CircleScrabDebutFresh
31.5824265%
Chuck Deodene

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQX} This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Deodene. Thursday freshness: 65%
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© 1995, The New York Times6/8/95 ( No. 16,648 )
Across
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Spicy dip : SALSA
6
Mogul emperor : AKBAR
11
Compete in a Nordic combined : SKI
14
Allegheny River city : OLEAN
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Ball girl? : BELLE
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School of whales : POD
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Drifters hit of 1963 : UPONTHEROOF
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"___ was saying..." : ASI
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Raincoats : PONCHOS
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Liqueur named for an island : CURACAO
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Three: Prefix : TER
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Motionless : INERT
25
Dick Van Dyke, in "Mary Poppins" : CHIMNEYSWEEP
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"Purgatory" dramatist : YEATS
32
Slipped a Mickey : DOPED
33
Diamond stat : RBI
36
With deftness : ABLY
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Impostors : FAKES
38
Sightsee : TOUR
39
Stock option : PUT
40
Erskine Caldwell's "Miss Mama ___" : AIMEE
41
Buffalo skater : SABRE
42
Wiretapper, e.g. : EAVESDROPPER
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Old World undergrowth : GORSE
47
Composer Rorem : NED
48
Capitol Hill sight : ROTUNDA
51
Nine-sider : NONAGON
55
Type of dye : AZO
56
Vulgar one : GUTTERSNIPE
58
Vim : PEP
59
Key in : ENTER
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Renown : ECLAT
61
Sullivan and others : EDS
62
Change the grass : RESOD
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Spanish coins of yore : REALS
Down
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Broth : SOUP
2
Canine bowlful : ALPO
3
Panetta of the White House : LEON
4
Holiness : SANCTITY
5
Stirring songs : ANTHEMS
6
Lincoln and others : ABES
7
Splash or plunk lead-in : KER
8
Alliance : BLOC
9
Baseball's Felipe : ALOU
10
Like bean-dip beans : REFRIED
11
Voyager 2, e.g. : SPACEPROBE
12
N.F.L. QB Bernie : KOSAR
13
Blockhead : IDIOT
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Cornet : HORN
22
Chemical suffix : ANE
25
Philippine isle : CEBU
26
Women's summer wear : HALTERTOPS
27
Wax-coated cheeses : EDAMS
28
Harnessed : YOKED
29
Nazi architect Albert : SPEER
30
Horror film director Craven : WES
31
Mouth, slangily : YAP
34
Duelist of 1804 : BURR
35
Pique : IRE
37
"For shame!" : FIE
38
Fast-paced entertainment : TAPDANCE
40
Superhero, often : AVENGER
41
Faerie Queene's creator : SPENSER
43
Tempe sch. : ASU
44
___ about (legal time frame) : ONOR
45
Concord, e.g. : GRAPE
46
Exuded : OOZED
49
Frank Herbert saga : DUNE
50
Bar mems. : ATTS
51
Dweeb : NERD
52
Reptilian "monster" : GILA
53
Form of silica : OPAL
54
Meshes : NETS
57
Auto racer ___ Fabi : TEO

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