Clue for 1-Across has an error — estimates of the total number of people who have ever lived are closer to 108 billion, even 37 years after this puzzle was published; left as in the original.
1 A | 2 D | 3 A | 4 M | 5 S | 6 L | 7 E | 8 E | 9 T | 10 H | 11 E | 12 R | 13 B |
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14 D | E | M | I | 15 H | O | R | N | E | 16 O | L | I | O |
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17 A | C | A | S | 18 E | O | F | I | D | E | 19 N | T | I | T | Y |
20 A | T | H | L | E | T | E | 21 E | A | S | E | D |
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22 M | A | R | Y | 23 G | 24 I | G | S | |||||||
25 D | 26 I | 27 V | A | N | S | 28 S | O | D | A | 29 B | 30 I | 31 S |
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32 U | R | I | S | 33 A | L | L | O | T | 34 I | N | K |
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35 R | E | D | H | 36 E | 37 A | D | E | D | L | E | 38 A | G | U | E |
39 E | N | E | 40 R | H | O | D | A | 41 S | O | R | A |
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42 N | E | O | 43 R | E | B | S | 44 F | 45 A | T | T | E | N |
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46 G | A | M | E | 47 T | O | G | A | |||||||
48 B | 49 I | 50 S | O | N | 51 T | A | R | R | I | 52 E | 53 D | |||
54 A | S | T | U | D | 55 Y | 56 I | N | S | C | A | R | L | E | 57 T |
58 S | L | U | R | 59 A | C | U | T | E | 60 E | B | R | O |
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61 T | E | N | D | 62 M | E | T | E | D | 63 S | E | N | T |
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.