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New York Times, Thursday, January 25, 1996

Author:
D. Kahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
20-Across : Curtain call that never ends?
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16241.551,23753%
David J. Kahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 42 Missing: {CQ} This is puzzle # 11 for Mr. Kahn. Thursday freshness: 36%
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© 1996, The New York Times1/25/96 ( No. 16,879 )
Across
1
Drive : MOTOR
6
Four Tops leader___Stubbs : LEVI
10
Breakfast cereal : BRAN
14
City near Utah Lake : PROVO
15
Leave : EXIT
16
First name in country : REBA
17
Muslim group : HAREM
18
"Anything___" : GOES
19
Southwest California town : OJAI
20
Curtain call that never ends? : RUNONWALKOFF
23
Philip Sidney's "Astrophel and___" : STELLA
26
Teases maliciously : BAITS
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Object to a squelching remark? : TAKEUPPUTDOWN
32
Revival shouts : AMENS
33
Whence the phoenix rose : ASHES
34
Foxx of "Sanford and Son" : REDD
35
Admit : ALLOW
36
Sound frustrated : SIGH
40
Lend___ : ANEAR
41
Actress Picon : MOLLY
42
Tenement? : RUNDOWNWALKUP
45
Proust hero : SWANN
47
Conceptualize : IDEATE
48
Pilot's joke to passengers? : TAKEOFFPUTON
53
Parts : AREA
54
Not straight : ALOP
55
Answer to "Who did this?" : NOTME
59
Island necklaces : LEIS
60
Ground___ : ZERO
61
Minolta rival : NIKON
62
Old slave : ESNE
63
Onetime Hagman co-star : EDEN
64
Zuni home : ADOBE
Down
1
Speed letters : MPH
2
Man-mouse link : ORA
3
1937 play "High___" : TOR
4
Make too great an advance : OVERLEND
5
City founder of legend : ROMULUS
6
Kind of blocks : LEGO
7
Nebraska Senator James : EXON
8
Perspective : VIEW
9
"___wrap!" : ITSA
10
Evening news anchor : BROKAW
11
Answer, legally : REJOIN
12
Toward the stern : ABAFT
13
Artless ones : NAIFS
21
Softness provider : NAP
22
80's mergers, for short : LBOS
23
Pentagram : STAR
24
Break, in a way : TAME
25
Made (out) : EKED
28
Ancient: Prefix : PALEO
29
Soc. Security Act, e.g. : USLAW
30
Prickly item : THORN
31
Water droplets : DEW
35
"___the Angels Sing" (1939 hit) : AND
36
Motor coil : SOLENOID
37
Actress Chase : ILKA
38
Oversupply : GLUT
39
Publicity : HYPE
40
___regni (in the year of the reign) : ANNO
41
"Truth or Dare" subject : MADONNA
42
Collect, as bucks : RAKEIN
43
Disquiet : UNEASE
44
Repartee : WIT
45
Used : STALE
46
Merchandise : WARES
49
Disconcert : FAZE
50
Escaped : FLED
51
Read attentively, with "over" : PORE
52
It follows once : UPON
56
Fight result : TKO
57
Criminal set : MOB
58
Chemical ending : ENE

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