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Eminent Departures of Nineteen Ninety-Five
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Tenor whose legend spanned operatic realms, surprisingly marking his passing in mid-90s puzzles
  • 2. Attorney General linked to complex US politics; shares surname with 1995 deceased novelist
  • 3. Beat Generation poet who breathed avant-garde fire until 1995
  • 4. Nobel economist known for input-output analysis, deceased mid-90s
  • 5. Irish poet whose verses echo melancholia, passed away in 1995
  • 7. Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor whose memory challenges persist, though he died after 1995
  • 8. Surname shared by several notable 20th-century figures including a 1995 deceased scientist
Down
  • 6. Supreme Allied Commander (died 1969), yet this name resurfaces metaphorically in 1995's political landscape
  • 9. Common Arabic name; notable Pakistani nuclear scientist who died in 1995
  • 10. Mysterious author of ‘Catcher’; passed in the year after 1995, used here as a decoy
  • 11. Mexican writer known for his historical fiction, died mid-1990s
  • 12. Iconic civil rights figure’s name appears in terminological puzzles; incorrectly spelled but phonetically close to homophone clue

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