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New York Times, Friday, August 25, 1995

Author:
Rich Norris
Editor:
Will Shortz
33-Down : Tobacco pipe
TotalDebutLatest
1894/27/19948/3/2024
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RebusScrabDebutFresh
31.571,11574%
Rich Norris

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 33 Missing: {JQW} This is puzzle # 20 for Mr. Norris. Friday freshness: 47%
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© 1995, The New York Times8/25/95 ( No. 16,726 )
Across
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Yields : GIVESOVER
10
Kind of stew : IRISH
15
Political surprise : ABOUTFACE
16
Time being : NONCE
17
Bent backward : RETROFLEX
18
Spud : TATER
19
Spleen : IRE
20
Guns : REVS
21
Most high, in titles : SERENE
22
They're dubbed : SIRS
24
"Couplehood" author : REISER
26
Come by : GET
27
Diary protectors : HASPS
29
Ersatz : SHAM
30
Louis Philippe, e.g. : ROI
31
60's Presidential in-law : ROBB
34
Auden's "The ___ of Anxiety" : AGE
35
Black rights org. since 1912 : ANC
36
Mourn : CRYFOR
38
Spout : NOZZLE
40
Two-piece piece : BRA
41
Pod starter : TRI
42
Shaping tool : ADZE
43
Attention : EAR
44
Close : SEAL
46
Shoot-'em-up : OATER
50
Naphthol, e.g. : DYE
51
Flaunt : PARADE
54
Clean : LAVE
55
Pencil name : MONGOL
57
Sweet-talk : COAX
59
One in a club: Abbr. : MEM
60
Dripping : ALEAK
61
Late-summer concern : HURRICANE
63
Discrimination : TASTE
64
Approved : INITIALED
65
City north of Cologne : ESSEN
66
Apparatus : MACHINERY
Down
1
Loud : GARISH
2
Isaac Albéniz composition : IBERIA
3
The electorate : VOTERS
4
Asian lead-in : EUR
5
Warehouse abbr. : STOR
6
Tender : OFFER
7
Escape facilitator : VALVE
8
Establishment in a new habitat : ECESIS
9
Mardi Gras V.I.P. : REX
10
Short musical work : INTERMEZZO
11
More than laugh : ROAR
12
Basic : INTEGRAL
13
Dramatic opening : SCENEONE
14
Dissenter : HERETIC
21
Neptune, e.g. : SEAGOD
23
Active : SPRY
25
Journalist Alexander : SHANA
28
Quiet : SOFTSPOKEN
32
Of the north : BOREAL
33
Tobacco pipe : BRIAR
36
Grade school supplies : CRAYOLAS
37
Infrequency : RARENESS
39
Fire : ZEAL
40
Intimate : BEDMATE
45
Gap : LACUNA
47
Hot ___ : TAMALE
48
Regulating device : EVENER
49
Solution : REMEDY
52
Kind of column : DORIC
53
Geocentric center : EARTH
56
Garden access : GATE
58
Missing floor in Caesar's Palace? : XIII
61
"Tell ___" (1963 hit) : HIM
62
Recycled item : CAN

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

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