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New York Times, Monday, September 26, 1994

Author:
Sidney L. Robbins
Editor:
Will Shortz
11-Down : One of the McCartneys
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Sidney L. Robbins

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQVX} Spans: 3 This is puzzle # 165 for Mr. Robbins. Monday freshness: 41%
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© 1994, The New York Times9/26/94 ( No. 16,393 )
Across
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Extreme point in an orbit : APSIS
6
"Hogan's Heroes" extra : NAZI
10
Cole ___ : SLAW
14
Hayes's predecessor : GRANT
15
Arabian sultanate : OMAN
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___ colada : PINA
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Cecil B. DeMille epic, with "The" : TENCOMMANDMENTS
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Prohibition oasis? : SPEAKEASY
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Pilgrim John : ALDEN
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What a ring lacks : ENDS
23
"Finally!" : ATLAST
24
On ship : ABOARD
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Plate scrapings : ORTS
29
In a moment : SOON
30
Peculiar : EERIE
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Fast plane : SST
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English-French conflict beginning 1337 : HUNDREDYEARSWAR
39
Greek vowel : ETA
40
Bay window : ORIEL
41
Prefix with pilot : AUTO
42
"Scram!" : SCAT
43
Went in a hurry : ZOOMED
45
South American plains : CAMPOS
48
Shock : STUN
50
___ acid : OLEIC
51
Jerk : SCHLEMIEL
56
What 17-Across had : CASTOFTHOUSANDS
58
Tooth pain : ACHE
59
Los Angeles 11 : RAMS
60
Skater's figure : EIGHT
61
"The ___ the limit" : SKYS
62
Relative of the heckelphone : OBOE
63
Teacher's charge : CLASS
Down
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10-percenters: Abbr. : AGTS
2
Get ready, informally : PREP
3
Of sound mind : SANE
4
Native Peruvian : INCA
5
"Dracula" author Bram : STOKER
6
Wanderer : NOMAD
7
Gather : AMASS
8
Wacky : ZANY
9
Neither Rep. nor Dem. : IND
10
Takes part in a bee : SPELLS
11
One of the McCartneys : LINDA
12
Opening bets : ANTES
13
Jimmy Dorsey's "___ It You?" : WASNT
18
Repair : MEND
19
Make a difference : MATTER
23
Sills song : ARIA
24
Late tennis V.I.P. : ASHE
25
Title ___ : BOUT
26
Mrs. Chaplin : OONA
27
Also : AND
28
Pitcher Hershiser : OREL
30
Revise copy : EDIT
31
Potato feature : EYE
32
Done laps : SWUM
33
Surfeit : SATE
34
Trampled : TROD
36
Florid : ROCOCO
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Times to write about : ERAS
38
___ Paulo, Brazil : SAO
42
Treats with malice : SPITES
43
Bantu people : ZULU
44
"Just a moment..." : ONESEC
45
Drug-yielding plants : COCAS
46
"Alas and ___" : ALACK
47
Netted : MESHY
48
Sad sack : SCHMO
49
The ones over there : THOSE
51
Knife : STAB
52
Drop in a letter box : MAIL
53
Actress Swenson : INGA
54
Old English letters : EDHS
55
Beach-storming vessels: Abbr. : LSTS
57
To and ___ : FRO

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