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New York Times, Wednesday, September 21, 1994

Author:
Trip Payne
Editor:
Will Shortz
34-Down : "Hold on ..."
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
464/10/19948/3/20211
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1034463133
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
421.5333860%
Trip Payne

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. Payne. Wednesday freshness: 89%
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M
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© 1994, The New York Times9/21/94 ( No. 16,388 )
Across
1
Tick off : MIFF
5
Jerry Herman musical : MAME
9
Scarf : STOLE
14
Tennis's Ivanisevic, often : ACER
15
"Fatal Attraction" villain : ALEX
16
Bust finds : KILOS
17
Diner's card : MENU
18
1953 Leslie Caron role : LILI
19
Long time : YEARS
20
#1 song for Robert Palmer : ADDICTEDTOLOVE
23
At that point : THEN
24
Bookbinding leather : ROAN
25
At regular intervals : SPACED
28
Innocent one : LAMB
29
Entirety : ALL
32
Communion table : ALTAR
33
TV's "Batman," e.g. : CAMP
34
Oil of ___ : OLAY
35
Learning method that "works for me" : HOOKEDONPHONICS
38
"Indecent Proposal" director Adrian : LYNE
39
Jokesters : WAGS
40
One quadrillionth: Prefix : FEMTO
41
Vane dir. : SSE
42
Ill will : HATE
43
#, & or % : SYMBOL
44
Either star of "Tea and Sympathy" : KERR
45
To you, to Yves : ATOI
46
Empty-calorie lover : JUNKFOODJUNKIE
52
Craze : MANIA
53
Novel featuring Doctor Long Ghost : OMOO
54
Bear in the sky : URSA
55
Keats or Wordsworth : ODIST
56
Mash preceder : MISH
57
Sardine containers : TINS
58
Wash : BATHE
59
Light submachine gun : STEN
60
Noted Renaissance name : ESTE
Down
1
Doll's cry : MAMA
2
Like some tea : ICED
3
Ward (off) : FEND
4
Yuletide snack : FRUITCAKE
5
Ice cream treat : MALTED
6
Xenophobe's fear : ALIEN
7
Pinochle combo : MELD
8
Turnoffs : EXITRAMPS
9
It fell in 1979 : SKYLAB
10
Attach, as a feed bag : TIEON
11
King Harald's father : OLAV
12
Folk tales : LORE
13
Slalom shape : ESS
21
Beloved : CHERE
22
Energy : OOMPH
25
Humorist Mort et al. : SAHLS
26
Artful dodges : PLOYS
27
Pay the penalty : ATONE
28
"Tootsie" Oscar winner : LANGE
29
Out on ___ : ALIMB
30
Milk: Prefix : LACTO
31
Popular disinfectant : LYSOL
33
Checking places : COATROOMS
34
"Hold on ..." : ONEMINUTE
36
Happy, for one : DWARF
37
1934 song "The Very Thought ___" : OFYOU
42
Goddess of Hades : HEKATE
43
One of the Virgin Islands : STJOHN
44
Filled turnover : KNISH
45
Give ___ of one's own medicine : ADOSE
46
Nonsense song of 1918 : JADA
47
Hand or foot : UNIT
48
Exclude : OMIT
49
Mr. Kristofferson : KRIS
50
Does not exist : ISNT
51
Life of Riley : EASE
52
Crowd around : MOB

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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