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New York Times, Thursday, November 14, 1996

Author:
N. S. Ross
Editor:
Will Shortz
19-Down : Hiked
TotalDebutLatest
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Nancy S. Ross

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 4 This is puzzle # 43 for Ms. Ross. Thursday freshness: 3%
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© 1996, The New York Times11/14/96 ( No. 17,173 )
Across
1
James of letters : AGEE
5
Persist : RECUR
10
Lancaster foe : YORK
14
Barnyard cry : BRAY
15
Just off : CLOSE
16
Needle case : ETUI
17
Catfish : BASEBALLSHUNTER
20
Journalist ___ Rogers St. Johns : ADELA
21
Subway support : STRAP
22
___ Lanka : SRI
23
Time piece? : ERA
25
England's Harrogate, e.g. : SPA
27
36
My ___, Vietnam : LAI
37
The "N" of U.N.C.F. : NEGRO
38
Fashionable gowns : DIORS
39
News paragraph : ITEM
41
Angry responses : SLAPS
43
Sale tag warning : ASIS
44
Parcels, with "out" : METES
46
___ Gay : ENOLA
48
Teachers' org. : NEA
49
Flounder : PROCEEDCLUMSILY
52
The other woman : HER
53
"Welcome" bearer : MAT
54
Op. ___ : CIT
57
Cayugas or Senecas : TRIBE
61
Coronet : TIARA
65
68
Sam Shepard's "___ of the Mind" : ALIE
69
"Pagliacci" soprano : NEDDA
70
Pluck : GRIT
71
Kind of cat : MANX
72
First-rate : GREAT
73
Without : SANS
Down
1
Eastern Church title : ABBA
2
Alum : GRAD
3
Slip (into) : EASE
4
Lace place : EYELET
5
For whom Elvis recorded : RCA
6
Wings : ELLS
7
Future stallion : COLT
8
Once-mighty initials : USSR
9
Discuss tiresomely : REHASH
10
Craving : YEN
11
Giant Mel et al. : OTTS
12
Penitent one : RUER
13
Diva ___ Te Kanawa : KIRI
18
House of Lords member : BARON
19
Hiked : UPPED
24
City on the Skunk River : AMES
26
Bhutan's locale : ASIA
27
Aerial view provider at sports events : BLIMP
28
Shoot-'em-up, perhaps : OATER
29
Link : TIETO
30
Girl-watched : OGLED
31
It's spent on the Riviera : FRANC
32
Tevye in the movie "Fiddler on the Roof" : TOPOL
33
Anwar's successor : HOSNI
34
Bay window : ORIEL
35
Attempt : ESSAY
40
Field for an engr. : MECH
42
Urban blight : SLUM
45
Look after : SEETO
47
Cremona violinmaker : AMATI
50
Astray : ERRING
51
Con games : STINGS
54
Silent one : CLAM
55
Seat of Allen County, Kan. : IOLA
56
Divide into two : TWIN
58
Bakery worker : ICER
59
Carpenter in an 1859 novel : BEDE
60
Icelandic work : EDDA
62
Pearl Mosque locale : AGRA
63
Curb, with "in" : REIN
64
Humanities : ARTS
66
Nettle : VEX
67
Completed a lap? : SAT

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