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Go Figure

New York Times, Sunday, August 27, 1995

Author:
Martin Schneider
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Down : Premed's exam
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Martin Schneider

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 64 Missing: none – this is a pangram. This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Schneider. Sunday freshness: 96%
Jim Horne notes:

The images can be seen here but since they are hard to read, I'll describe them. 23 Across is the letters "Quakerism adherents" arranged in a circle. 32 Across is "Approximately" arranged again in a circle. 105 Across is "Extension" in a wavy pattern. 117 Across is "Somers Islands formerly" shaped like a triangle. 4 Down is "Floor covering" in a circle. 16 Down is "Waltzing" in a box. 34 Down is "Pugilism" in a circle. 50 Down is "Place of business" in an oval. 58 Down is "Victoire" in an arch. 84 Down is "Castor Pollux" arranged in two peaks.

This is also the only NYT puzzle to include PENIS as an answer.

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© 1995, The New York Times8/27/95 ( No. 16,728 )
Across
1
Plot : MAP
4
Cuts short : BOBS
8
Mature : GROWUP
14
Secretaries: Abbr. : ASSTS
19
Prayer recitation : AVEMARIA
21
Soap actress Alexander : DENISE
22
Excite : PIQUE
23
See image : CIRCLEOFFRIENDS
25
Exercycle button : PAUSE
26
Kind of pain : ROYAL
27
Needlefish : GAR
28
Work for a musician : GIG
29
1994 Jim Carrey flick : THEMASK
31
___ a customer : ONETO
32
See image : ROUNDABOUT
35
Literary monogram : RLS
36
Actress Peeples : NIA
37
Flintlock muskets : FUSILS
40
From ___ Z : ATO
41
"Il me vient a ___" ("It occurs to me"): Fr. : LIDEE
43
Emaciated : SCRAWNY
45
Wyo. neighbor : IDA
47
Got by force : EXACTED
49
Universe : MACROCOSM
52
Madden : IRE
53
Shade of green : JADE
56
Informal word of appreciation : THANX
59
I.C.U. items : IVS
60
Feather: Prefix : PINNI
62
Jury : PANEL
63
Spy name : HARI
64
Farm sound : BAA
65
Like some salad dressing : VINEGARY
67
Rogue : CAD
68
Call to Carreras : ENCORE
70
More circumspect : LEERIER
72
Terminate : EXPIRE
74
Acid : LSD
75
Certain cheeses : RICOTTAS
77
Puck : IMP
79
Army members? : ANTS
80
Old-fashioned rewards : MEEDS
82
"Is that ___?" ("You don't say!") : AFACT
83
Transfer ___ : RNA
84
Cramped : TIGHT
85
Chorus members : ALTI
86
Sandy's sound : ARF
87
Indigenous : HOMEGROWN
90
Get back to the original wood again : RESTRIP
93
Stack, in a way : RIG
94
Beastie : CRITTER
98
"L'Arlesienne" composer : BIZET
99
Sound from the cornfield : CAW
101
Hale fellow? : NATHAN
103
"Wheel of Fortune" request : ANE
104
___ mo : SLO
105
See image : WAVELENGTH
108
"The ___ mightier..." : PENIS
110
Italian aperitif : CAMPARI
112
Summer in la cite : ETE
113
Old talk-show host McCrary : TEX
115
Expunge : ERASE
116
Less green : RIPER
117
See image : BERMUDATRIANGLE
121
Did theater work, informally : USHED
122
Author Leonard : ELMORE
123
Had a yen : HANKERED
124
Pages : BEEPS
125
Apply messily : SLOPON
126
A dollar bill has four : EYES
127
Pitches : ADS
Down
1
Diacritical marks : MACRONS
2
Relating to airport equipment : AVIONIC
3
Annually : PERYEAR
4
See image : BALLOFWAX
5
Can you dig it? : ORE
6
Lit. genre : BIOG
7
1940 Douglas Fairbanks Jr. film : SAFARI
8
East German inits. : GDR
9
Dominion : REIGN
10
Iroquois League member : ONEIDA
11
W.W. II British officer Orde ___ : WINGATE
12
Coyote State sch. : USD
13
Pasta topping : PESTO
14
Last word before the first bite : APPETIT
15
Twins' birthplace : SIAM
16
See image : SQUAREDANCING
17
Set-to : TUSSLE
18
Is after : SEEKS
20
Premed's exam : MCAT
24
Romps : FROLICS
30
"Amadeus" co-star : HULCE
33
"Let ___ good unto all men": Galatians : USDO
34
See image : BOXINGRING
38
Family member, in slang : UNC
39
Gulf war ally : SYRIA
42
___ vu : DEJA
44
Procedure during pregnancy, for short : AMNIO
46
Suction pump : ASPIRATOR
48
Cousin of a canzone : ARIA
50
See image : OVALOFFICE
51
Some skirts : MINIS
54
Paucity : DEARTH
55
Cain, e.g. : ELDEST
56
Half of a 1991 movie twosome : THELMA
57
Humperdinck opera role : HANSEL
58
See image : ARCDETRIOMPHE
61
Name word : NEE
62
Eucharist container : PYX
64
"___ Mir Bist Du Schoen" (1938 hit) : BEI
65
Twining plant : VETCH
66
Iron pumper's unit : REP
69
Leland Stanford companies: Abbr. : RRS
71
Greek vowel : ETA
73
Popular horse name : PAINT
76
Dr. Gideon Fell's creator : CARR
78
___ Madness : MARCH
81
Ten, in Toledo : DIEZ
83
Ted Turner event : REGATTA
84
See image : TWINPEAKS
86
Rose essence : ATTAR
88
Like some vases : MING
89
Mouths : ORA
91
___ Folly : SEWARDS
92
Sicilian city : PALERMO
95
Athens-Sparta battle site : TANAGRA
96
Quarantined : ENISLED
97
Adjusts the draw : RESEEDS
98
Mathematician Pascal : BLAISE
100
Swab : WETMOP
102
Modern rock band with a repetitive name : THETHE
104
Benchwarmer : SCRUB
106
Sensitive people pick them up : VIBES
107
Logical start : NEURO
109
Marine bird : ERNE
111
Tiniest protest : PEEP
114
Inside shot? : XRAY
118
Pipe connection : ELL
119
Hideaway : DEN
120
Like Bach's Sonata No. 3 : INE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 18 debuted here and reused later, 14 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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