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New York Times, Thursday, December 16, 1993

Author:
Nancy Joline
Editor:
Will Shortz
Dostoyevsky's "___ From the Underground"
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Nancy Nicholson Joline

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FJQVZ} This is puzzle # 62 for Ms. Joline. Thursday freshness: 70%
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C
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© 1993, The New York Times12/16/93 ( No. 16,109 )
Across
1
Name from 50's TV : CALABASH
9
Baseball's Doubleday : ABNER
14
Romberg product : OPERETTA
15
Filmdom's Lawrence : OTOOLE
16
Infant's game : PEEKABOO
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Infant's shoe : BOOTIE
18
Showed fear : RAN
19
Stupidity : DIMNESS
20
Sting : SCAM
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Mal de___ : TETE
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Words of enlightenment : ISEE
27
Mars sighting : CANAL
29
Bestow : DONATE
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Blow the cover of? : UNWRAP
34
Puts back : REPOSITS
38
___Juana : TIA
39
Urban noise maker : BOOMBOX
41
Take this out for a spin : TOP
42
University founded in 1253 : SORBONNE
44
Locust : CICADA
46
Exhortation : URGING
48
Pitcher Ryan : NOLAN
49
"___ of you ..." : IBEG
52
Ear-related : OTIC
54
"The ___ From Brazil" : BOYS
55
Defective stop sign? : NONAGON
58
"I___You Babe" : GOT
60
Yogi's cartoon sidekick : BOOBOO
61
Blubbered : BOOHOOED
66
Like spring flowers : ABLOOM
67
Battery type : ALKALINE
68
Physicist Freeman : DYSON
69
Innkeeper : HOSTELER
Down
1
Person with a collar? : COP
2
One rung on the evolutionary ladder : APE
3
Spike, for one : LEE
4
Biblical vessel : ARK
5
Coach Bryant : BEAR
6
Up : ATBAT
7
High : STONED
8
Vietnamese money unit : HAO
9
Accelerator item : ATOM
10
Sticks : BOONIES
11
Dostoyevsky's "___ From the Underground" : NOTES
12
Beethoven dedicatee : ELISE
13
Singer Della : REESE
15
___-Wan Kenobi : OBI
19
Star in Cygnus : DENEB
20
Rabbits' tails : SCUTS
21
"Pagliacci" husband : CANIO
22
Menachem's peace partner : ANWAR
23
Deface : MAR
25
Agony : TORMENT
28
Item of love? : LABOR
30
Bk. of Revelation : APOC
31
Poison : TOXIN
33
Pioneering video game : PONG
35
Writer Calvino : ITALO
36
TV show since 1/14/52 : TODAY
37
Wings have them : SPANS
40
Wambaugh's "The___Field" : ONION
43
Bogey : BUGABOO
45
Male swan : COB
47
1980 Richard Gere portrayal : GIGOLO
49
Hooked in a way : INBAD
50
Definitely not a brain surgeon : BOOBY
51
Chemical compounds : ENOLS
53
Kind of tour : COOKS
56
Continue : GOON
57
South Africa's ___ Paul : OOM
59
"___does it!" : THAT
61
Phooey's cousin : BAH
62
Novelist Rolvaag : OLE
63
Medium for Matisse : OIL
64
Ending with acetyl or butyl : ENE
65
___Spiegel : DER

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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