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New York Times, Saturday, September 16, 1995

Author:
Bryant White
Editor:
Will Shortz
21-Down : Crop-eating insects
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Bryant White

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 35 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 4, (2 double stacks) This is puzzle # 29 for Mr. White. Saturday freshness: 16%
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© 1995, The New York Times9/16/95 ( No. 16,748 )
Across
1
Martyr of first-century Rome : STPETER
8
Shoot over : RETAKE
14
Former Iranian gold coins : PAHLAVIS
16
Stymied : INAFIX
17
Ear examination instrument : OTOSCOPE
18
Ludlum's "The ___ Identity" : BOURNE
19
Sports page abbrs. : OTS
20
"Lamia" poet : KEATS
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Not the sort to share : PIGS
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Tie fabric : REP
24
Rooster's roost : PERCH
25
Outer intro : ECT
26
Former Korean president and family : RHEES
28
Middle-earth mutant : ORC
30
Strauss's "Ariadne ___ Naxos" : AUF
32
Worship : ADORE
33
Bozo : TWIT
34
Naysayer : ANTI
35
House extension : VERANDA
37
Exceedingly variable : PROTEAN
39
Ciardi's "___ a Man" : IMET
40
Actress Thurman et al. : UMAS
42
"The Red House Mystery" author : MILNE
43
___ office (part of county government) : DAS
44
768 tsps. : GAL
45
"Meteor" writer : CAPEK
46
Familiar math abbr. : LCD
48
___ geranium (garden flower) : LEMON
50
Nth degree : PHD
52
Stadium area : TIER
53
Carville, La., patient : LEPER
54
1949 song "Bali ___" : HAI
55
French artist Daumier : HONORE
57
Continuously changing scene : PANORAMA
60
Opposite of moderne : ANCIEN
61
Bon mot : ONELINER
62
Trypanosome carrier : TSETSE
63
1981 N.H.L. Rookie of the Year : STASTNY
Down
1
Animal track : SPOOR
2
Ragamuffins : TATTERDEMALIONS
3
Ignis fatuus, e.g. : PHOSPHORESCENCE
4
They loop the Loop : ELS
5
Part of a game win : TAC
6
Brings to mind : EVOKES
7
Not so green : RIPER
8
Needles : RIBS
9
Serutan alternative : ENO
10
Shade of gray : TAUPE
11
Ivory source : AFRICANELEPHANT
12
Subject of an 11/26/22 discovery : KINGTUTANKHAMEN
13
Twins of Xerxes : EXES
15
Sirenian : SEACOW
21
Crop-eating insects : THRIPS
24
Hammerhead : PEEN
27
Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
29
Middle: Abbr. : CTR
31
Mulct : FINE
32
Eager : AVID
33
Mexican dish : TAMALE
34
On one's toes : ATIP
36
Understood, slangily : DUG
38
Land on the Arabian Sea : OMAN
41
Syria's second-largest city : ALEPPO
45
Navy signal pennant : CORNET
47
Legal claim : DROIT
49
Method : MEANS
51
Date-filled item : DIARY
52
Object of finger-pointing? : THAT
53
Unaspirated, in old phonetics : LENE
56
___ gestae : RES
58
Ending for pay or play : OLA
59
___ de veau (sweetbread) : RIS

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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