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New York Times, Tuesday, March 14, 1995

Author:
Bob Klahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
42-Across : Painstaking
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
601/29/19945/22/201110
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1313121426
CircleScrabDebutFresh
11.5746577%
Bob Klahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 68, Blocks: 32 Missing: {KQX} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 9 for Mr. Klahn. Tuesday freshness: 98%
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© 1995, The New York Times3/14/95 ( No. 16,562 )
Across
1
Practical jokes : GAGS
5
School founded by Henry VI : ETON
9
Sharp-smelling : ACRID
14
For men ___ (stag) : ONLY
15
"Kon-Tiki" craft : RAFT
16
Haunted house noises : MOANS
17
They're easily bruised : EGOS
18
The ___ of the party : LIFE
19
Leaning slightly, as a ship : ALIST
20
Passenger restraints : SEATBELTS
22
Sudden shock : JOLT
23
Change, as a hem : ALTER
24
Paramount workplace : LOT
25
Path of Discovery : ORBIT
27
Island near Australia : TASMANIA
29
White weasel : ERMINE
30
Followed tenaciously : DOGGED
32
Rainbows : ARCS
33
Last mile in a car warranty, often : FIFTYTHOUSANDTH
38
University founder Cornell : EZRA
39
Shops : STORES
40
Be that as it may : EVENSO
42
Painstaking : DILIGENT
47
TV host Gibbons : LEEZA
48
Cleopatra's biter : ASP
49
Artoo-___ : DETOO
50
Gottfried, in "Lohengrin" : SWAN
51
Tour outline : ITINERARY
53
Tour of duty : STINT
54
Nil, in Seville : NADA
55
Chorister : ALTO
56
Eyelashes : CILIA
57
Spanish crowd? : TRES
58
Haymarket Square event : RIOT
59
Football's Papa Bear : HALAS
60
"___ Grand Night for Singing" : ITSA
61
Comic Carvey : DANA
Down
1
Attacks : GOESAT
2
Actress Lansbury : ANGELA
3
Is a bad winner : GLOATS
4
Word with solar or nervous : SYSTEM
5
___ Stanley Gardner : ERLE
6
Firefly component? : TAILLIGHT
7
Leading early in the race : OFFTOAGOODSTART
8
Military experiment, perhaps : NTEST
9
Key of Beethoven's Seventh : AMAJOR
10
Play-by-play announcer's partner : COLORMAN
11
Front-row racing fan : RAILBIRD
12
1992 thriller "Basic ___" : INSTINCT
13
Aug. clock setting : DST
21
Diamond Jim : BRADY
26
Musician/sportscaster John : TESH
28
"___ fast, buster!" : NOTSO
29
Car bomb? : EDSEL
31
"Medea" playwright : EURIPIDES
33
"I ___ Fine" (Beatles hit) : FEEL
34
Russian newspaper : IZVESTIA
35
Voluntary capacity : FREEWILL
36
Dar es Salaam's land : TANZANIA
37
Stage comment : ASIDE
41
Christmas bell ringers : SANTAS
43
Actor Depardieu : GERARD
44
It may be last on the list : ETALIA
45
Boxer Ken : NORTON
46
Corolla, e.g. : TOYOTA
48
"___ a stinker?": Bugs Bunny : AINTI
52
Cape Canaveral acronym : NASA
53
Univ., e.g. : SCH

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

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