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New York Times, Friday, January 19, 1996

Author:
C. Gersch
Editor:
Will Shortz
16-Across : Concert finale
TotalDebutLatest
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Charles E. Gersch

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {QWXZ} Spans: 1 Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 37 for Mr. Gersch. Friday freshness: 21%
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© 1996, The New York Times1/19/96 ( No. 16,873 )
Across
1
Chou___ : ENLAI
6
Winner's prize, maybe : CAKE
10
Winner's prize, maybe : CUP
13
Entertainer born 1/20/1896 : GEORGEBURNS
16
Concert finale : INA
17
Partner of 13-Across : GRACIEALLEN
18
Game-winning cry : GIN
19
Warwick's river : AVON
20
Raise : ELEVATE
22
Estate division : ACRE
24
First name in frontiersmen : DANL
26
Blast furnace input : ORES
27
1847 sea adventure : OMOO
28
Smooth : FILE
29
Hewlett-Packard products : PCS
30
Where Forrest Gump served : NAM
31
Book before Amos : JOEL
32
Family member, informally : GRAMMA
35
1975 film co-starring 13-Across : THESUNSHINEBOYS
38
Outdated : OLDHAT
39
Fancy feather sources : EMUS
40
Common caustic, chemically : KOH
41
Not hither : YON
42
Ninnies : SAPS
43
Start of a children's rhyme : EENY
44
Force in Bosnia : NATO
46
Extent of damage : TOLL
47
"Yanks" star : GERE
48
Soviet premier Kosygin : ALEKSEI
50
Pinguid : OILY
52
Vaudeville singer's prop : BOA
53
1980 film starring 13-Across : OHGODBOOKII
58
Electromotive force pioneer : OHM
59
Word for 13-Across : CENTENARIAN
60
First degrees : BAS
61
Receives : SEES
62
Canvases : TENTS
Down
1
Kind of cream : EGG
2
Relative of King Saul : NER
3
Mauna___ : LOA
4
Five-time Derby winner : ARCARO
5
"Uncle!" : IGIVE
6
___-de-sac : CUL
7
Longtime "What's My Line" name : ARLENE
8
Bell sound : KNELL
9
Olden slave : ESNE
10
13-Across, for a famous example : CIGARSMOKER
11
Yoke : UNITE
12
Ones in sashes : PANES
14
Help-wanted abbr. : EEO
15
Exchanges : BANDIES
21
Dict. content : VOCAB
22
Gian Carlo Menotti hero : AMAHL
23
13-and 17-Across, and others : COMEDYTEAMS
25
Plant once considered a medical panacea : ALLHEAL
27
Latch___ : ONTO
28
Poet's spring : FONT
29
Chief exec : PRES
31
Explorer Cabrillo : JUAN
32
Zoo beasts : GNUS
33
"___and Only" : MYONE
34
Grayish : ASHY
36
Shimmied : SHOOK
37
Opposite of burst : IMPLODE
42
Très chic : SOIGNE
43
Pal of Pooh : EEYORE
44
Big wheel : NABOB
45
Pacific greeting : ALOHA
46
Snicker : TEHEE
47
Say "I told you so!" : GLOAT
49
Assns. : SOCS
51
Arab name part : IBN
54
Game finales, for short : OTS
55
Relations : KIN
56
"Ten thousand saw___a glance": Wordsworth : IAT
57
Election victors : INS

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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