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New York Times, Tuesday, May 29, 2001

Author:
Frances Hansen
Editor:
Will Shortz
1-Down : Elephant of children's lit
TotalDebutLatest
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Frances Hansen

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {KQX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 115 for Ms. Hansen. Tuesday freshness: 66%
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© 2001, The New York Times5/29/1 ( No. 18,830 )
Across
1
Operatic voices : BASSI
6
Bankroll, e.g. : WAD
9
"Dancing Queen" pop group : ABBA
13
Take under one's wing : ADOPT
14
Eager : AVID
16
Exerciser's target : FLAB
17
Film starring 60-Across, 1941 : BALLOFFIRE
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Mentor : GURU
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A few chips, perhaps : ANTE
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Glory (in) : REVEL
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Passion : HEAT
23
Prince of Monaco : RAINIER
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"Give ___ rest!" : ITA
27
"i" completer : DOT
28
Film starring 60-Across, 1952 : HIGHNOON
33
Bricklayer : MASON
36
Dayan of the Six-Day War : MOSHE
37
French article : UNE
38
Film starring 60-Across, 1932 : AFAREWELLTOARMS
41
Actor Stephen : REA
42
"À votre ___!" : SANTE
43
Like most clocks in April and October : RESET
44
Film starring 60-Across, 1954 : VERACRUZ
46
It's off la côte de France : MER
47
Swab : MOP
48
"The fatal egg by Pleasure laid": Cowper : REMORSE
52
Coffee, in a beanery : JAVA
55
Ring exchange site : ALTAR
58
Clairvoyant : SEER
59
Don Juan's mother : INEZ
60
Actor born in May 1901 : GARYCOOPER
62
Nightly comic : LENO
63
Pinza of "South Pacific" : EZIO
64
Sports replay technique : SLOMO
65
Two-screen cinema : TWIN
66
Hither's partner : YON
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Fall flower : ASTER
Down
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Elephant of children's lit : BABAR
2
Turkish city : ADANA
3
Sir Georg of the Chicago Symphony : SOLTI
4
Magnificence : SPLENDOR
5
"Was ___ blame?" : ITO
6
Eucharist bread : WAFER
7
Tel ___ : AVIV
8
Dreadful : DIRE
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Knitted blanket : AFGHAN
10
Azure : BLUE
11
Vamp Theda : BARA
12
Touch on : ABUT
15
Tickle pink : DELIGHT
18
Worry : FRET
24
"The Bald Soprano" playwright : IONESCO
26
Math statement : THEOREM
28
Football coach Lou : HOLTZ
29
Capri, e.g. : ISLE
30
Not theirs : OURS
31
"This one's ___!" : ONME
32
Hatching place : NEST
33
Baseball's Throneberry : MARV
34
Without ___ (pro bono) : AFEE
35
___ Basin, German coal region : SAAR
36
Restaurant card : MENU
39
Wood distortion : WARPAGE
40
Spray cans : AEROSOLS
45
Woman warrior : AMAZON
46
Thermometer fill: Abbr. : MERC
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Cotton alternative : RAYON
49
Move, as plants : REPOT
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"If You Could ___ Now" : SEEME
51
Wrong move : ERROR
52
Send a Dear John letter : JILT
53
Freshly : ANEW
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"___, vidi, vici" : VENI
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Never getting off one's duff : LAZY
57
Threesome : TRIO
61
Explorer Johnson : OSA

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