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New York Times, Tuesday, August 30, 1994

Author:
Jonathan Schmatzbach
Editor:
Will Shortz
7-Down : Harbor helper
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
312/15/19945/16/20181
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ScrabDebutFresh
1.5211218%
Jonathan Schmalzbach

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 39 Missing: {JQWX} This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Schmalzbach. Tuesday freshness: 10%
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© 1994, The New York Times8/30/94 ( No. 16,366 )
Across
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Son of Abraham : ISAAC
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RR stops : STAS
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Ill-considered : RASH
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Hajj destination : MECCA
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Justice Black : HUGO
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"... and to ___ good night" : ALLA
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Whittles down : PARES
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The sun, to the skin : AGER
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Hera's husband : ZEUS
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Noted baseball announcer : REDBARBER
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Give the boot to : OUST
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Actor Ray : ALDO
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Lustily robust : EARTHY
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Cervantes's ___ Panza : SANCHO
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Improvise : ADLIB
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Mountain of central Russia : URAL
33
Defense acronym : NATO
35
Actress Christine : LAHTI
39
Fixed shoes : RESOLED
41
Emancipates : RESCUES
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Borgnine's "From Here to Eternity" role : FATSO
44
Pronounced : ORAL
46
Abstract artist Paul : KLEE
47
Clear, as a tape : ERASE
49
Loco : INSANE
51
Quarterback, often : PASSER
54
Misplace : LOSE
56
Compassion : RUTH
57
All worked up : INALATHER
62
Concept : IDEA
63
Tastes : SIPS
64
"___ of Athens" : TIMON
66
First name in casino ownership : MERV
67
Option word : ELSE
68
Gentry : ELITE
69
Educator Sullivan : ANNE
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Noticed : SEEN
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Acted grandmotherly : DOTED
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Mischief-maker : IMP
2
Cook quickly : SEAR
3
Caldwell's "God's Little ___" : ACRE
4
Scored on a serve : ACED
5
Algiers quarter : CASBAH
6
Archeologist's fragment : SHARD
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Harbor helper : TUGBOAT
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Author James : AGEE
9
Horse color : SORREL
10
Clinton's home team : RAZORBACKS
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Certain Alaskan : ALEUT
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Kind of fund : SLUSH
13
Cursory : HASTY
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By oneself : ALONE
25
Is sickly : AILS
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Malibu sight : SURF
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Neighborhood : AREA
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Cartoonist Thomas : NAST
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Near miss : CLOSESHAVE
31
Celebrated Freud case : DORA
34
Hubbubs : ADOS
36
Dance performed in a grass skirt : HULA
37
High schooler : TEEN
38
Sinking-in phrase : ISEE
40
Knowledge : LORE
42
"Aeneid" queen : ELISA
45
Setback : RELAPSE
48
Gets up : ARISES
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Cleared : NETTED
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Jazz trumpeter Louis : PRIMA
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"The Age of Anxiety" poet : AUDEN
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Shock jock Howard : STERN
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Novelist Tillie : OLSEN
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Cairo's river : NILE
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Hawaiian seaport : HILO
60
Spew forth : EMIT
61
Dull routine : ROTE
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Pulp penman Buntline : NED

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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