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New York Times, Thursday, November 28, 1996

Author:
B. Klahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
62-Across : Parents to child, part 5
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
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11.5746577%
Bob Klahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQXZ} This is puzzle # 20 for Mr. Klahn. Thursday freshness: 38%
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© 1996, The New York Times11/28/96 ( No. 17,187 )
Across
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Hospital status : COMA
5
1816 novel made into a 1996 film : EMMA
9
Pulitzer-winning columnist Mike : ROYKO
14
Churchill's "___ Country" : AFAR
15
Lick : BEAT
16
Swimming gold medalist Janet : EVANS
17
Parents to teen-age child, part 1 : IFYOUWANT
19
Scylla or Charybdis : PERIL
20
"Concentration" puzzle : REBUS
21
Parents to child, part 2 : TOLEARNTO
23
"Potemkin" setting : ODESSA
25
Brings up : REARS
26
First name in mystery : ERLE
28
Prizes : ESTEEMS
32
Puts it to : ASKS
35
Jung's opposite : ALT
37
Prepared for a drive : TEEDUP
38
Blow away : AWE
39
Parents to child, part 3 : DRIVEWE
41
Blow it : ERR
42
Redeem, in a way : RANSOM
44
___-cone : SNO
45
Very dark : INKY
46
Vanity case? : EGOTRIP
48
N.Y. neighbor : CONN
50
Lovers' lane? : AISLE
52
Relative of Icelandic : DANISH
56
Parents to child, part 4 : WONTSTAND
60
Vice cop : NARCO
61
Viva voce : ALOUD
62
Parents to child, part 5 : INYOURWAY
64
"The Turn of the Screw" girl : FLORA
65
Couple : DUAD
66
Soup flavoring : DILL
67
Chief Justice after Marshall : TANEY
68
Trig figure : SINE
69
Snicker follower : SNEE
Down
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Where "Aida" premiered : CAIRO
2
Slew, in slang : OFFED
3
Gershwin song of 1926 : MAYBE
4
Fires up : AROUSES
5
"Charlotte's Web" inits. : EBW
6
Ham, lamb or Spam : MEAT
7
Mount Vernon, for one : MANOR
8
Postwar P.M. : ATTLEE
9
Clever conversation : REPARTEE
10
Supervise : OVERSEE
11
Shaggy-dog story : YARN
12
Interlock : KNIT
13
1952 Olympics host : OSLO
18
1980 Olympics host : USSR
22
"The Outlaw Josey Wales" director : EASTWOOD
24
Chicken Little, for one : ALARMIST
27
Biblical high priest : ELI
29
Land west of Nod : EDEN
30
Darkness : MURK
31
Peppy : SPRY
32
It has banks in Bern : AARE
33
Booty : SWAG
34
Numbers game : KENO
36
Cable outlets : TVS
39
Calamity Jane actress, 1953 : DORISDAY
40
Abbr. at the bottom of a letter : ENC
43
Height : STATURE
45
Guts : INNARDS
47
Tartans : PLAIDS
49
Part of Mork's goodbye : NANU
51
Taedium vitae : ENNUI
53
"Professor" Corey : IRWIN
54
Plate of salmon, e.g. : SCALE
55
Game expert Edmond : HOYLE
56
Blow gently : WAFT
57
Paella pot : OLLA
58
Deadline for Sheriff Kane : NOON
59
Actress Cannon : DYAN
63
Words of honor? : ODE

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