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New York Times, Thursday, September 21, 1995

Author:
Chuck Deodene
Editor:
Will Shortz
2-Down : Newspaper publisher Adolph
TotalDebutLatest
4211/16/19942/26/2021
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
02398128
CircleScrabDebutFresh
31.5824265%
Chuck Deodene

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 72, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Deodene. Thursday freshness: 52%
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© 1995, The New York Times9/21/95 ( No. 16,753 )
Across
1
Reggae artist Peter : TOSH
5
Beer belly : GUT
8
Accumulate : AMASS
13
Play's opener : ACTI
14
Catch in a way : ROPE
15
___ face (reversal) : VOLTE
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Ferenc Molnár play : THEGLASSSLIPPER
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Macadam binder : ASPHALT
20
Harbor town : SEAPORT
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Pitchwoman ___ Lenska : RULA
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Cellular phone co. : GTE
23
Dream-fulfilling benefactor : FAIRYGODMOTHER
30
Home of Oral Roberts University : TULSA
31
Prickly ___ : PEAR
32
German speed skater ___ Jens Mey : UWE
33
Eastern Amerind : ERIE
34
It's a wrap : SARAN
36
Waterless : ARID
37
Throng : MOB
38
Any chapter of the Koran : SURA
39
Black Bears' home : ORONO
40
Ideal beau : PRINCECHARMING
44
Galoot : OAF
45
Pacific goose : NENE
46
Down-and-outer's milieu : SKIDROW
50
Made a tea cozy, perhaps : KNITTED
54
Rags-to-riches tale : CINDERELLASTORY
56
Paid to play : ANTED
57
Carol : NOEL
58
Stravinsky ballet : AGON
59
Temperamental : MOODY
60
Syllable of reproach : TUT
61
Manuscript encl. : SASE
Down
1
"Later, Jeeves" : TATA
2
Newspaper publisher Adolph : OCHS
3
Tread : STEP
4
Skyscraper : HIGHRISE
5
Attend sans date : GOSTAG
6
Increases : UPS
7
Poet Gallagher : TESS
8
Flier : AVIATOR
9
Tyke : MOPPET
10
Pet food brand : ALPO
11
Suffix with road or speed : STER
12
Spanish painter José Maria : SERT
14
Comeback : RALLY
17
Author ___ Ingalls Wilder : LAURA
18
Errand runner : LEGMAN
23
Hubbub : FUROR
24
Defense witness, perhaps : ALIBI
25
Afternoon TV name : OPRAH
26
LSD seizer : DEA
27
Ontario tribe : HURON
28
Jock or J.R. : EWING
29
Overhaul : REDO
30
Agency worker, for short : TEMP
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Seek, as damages : SUEFOR
35
Rainbow : ARC
36
Operatic bits : ARIETTAS
38
___ cat (coward) : SCAREDY
39
It meant all to Caesar : OMNIS
41
Signaled assent : NODDED
42
Short sock : ANKLET
43
Kidney-related : RENAL
46
Con : SCAM
47
Movie theater, in Europe : KINO
48
Sondheim's "___ the Woods" : INTO
49
Departed : WENT
51
"Animal House" wear : TOGA
52
Sexual love : EROS
53
Force unit : DYNE
55
Mr. Costello : LOU

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

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