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New York Times, Wednesday, June 25, 1997

Author:
Elizabeth Gorski
Editor:
Will Shortz
"Penny Lane," not "Strawberry Fields Forever"
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Elizabeth C. Gorski

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQVX} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 15 for Ms. Gorski. Wednesday freshness: 28%
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© 1997, The New York Times6/25/97 ( No. 17,396 )
Across
1
Cockeyed : INANE
6
Stirs in ingredients : ADDS
10
Emily of "Our Town" : WEBB
14
Trig. function : COSEC
15
Man of the House? : NEWT
16
Oil of ___ : OLAY
17
Gin inventor : ELIWHITNEY
19
After-school drink : MALT
20
"Cheers" star : DANSON
21
Fib : TELLALIE
23
Cravings : YENS
25
"___ giorno!" : BUON
26
Bathing facility : SPA
29
Spot : SITE
31
Flashed one's pearly whites : SMILED
35
Unagi, at a sushi bar : EEL
36
Lymphatic part : NODE
38
"Penny Lane," not "Strawberry Fields Forever" : ASIDE
39
Frank Fontaine TV character : CRAZYGUGGENHEIM
43
Thomas Mann's "___ Kröger" : TONIO
44
Presidential run : TERM
45
One below a second lieut. : NCO
46
Pursues : STALKS
48
Government worry : DEBT
50
Aves. : STS
51
Sir Peter ___, painter of British royalty : LELY
53
Kind of toad : TREE
55
Leftover : RESIDUAL
59
Emphatic affirmative : YESSIR
63
Violist's clef : ALTO
64
"Valley of the Dolls" co-star : SHARONTATE
66
Sweet dessert : FLAN
67
"Oh, very funny!" : HOHO
68
Line of type : SERIF
69
Blackens : TARS
70
Yesteryear : YORE
71
Brewer's need : YEAST
Down
1
Like white wine at a restaurant : ICED
2
Theme song of Vincent Lopez : NOLA
3
Alphabet book phrase : ASIN
4
Info-filled : NEWSY
5
Alpine sounds : ECHOES
6
Member of a colony : ANT
7
Fender bender : DENT
8
Hardly Mr. Cool : DWEEB
9
Victrola part : STYLUS
10
Not masculine : WOMANISH
11
Mideast carrier : ELAL
12
Neighbor of Java : BALI
13
Data unit : BYTE
18
Diamond segment : INNING
22
Arthur Miller character : LOMAN
24
Full-bodied ale : STOUT
26
Split-off groups : SECTS
27
Candidate of 1992 and '96 : PEROT
28
George's talk show co-host : ALANA
30
Put on a border : EDGED
32
Property securities : LIENS
33
Order : EDICT
34
Floor models : DEMOS
37
Once-popular feather source : EGRET
40
Gobs and gobs : ZILLIONS
41
On the team? : YOKED
42
Life, in the early days : EMBRYO
47
Like many a winter road : SLUSHY
49
Itty-bitty : TEENSY
52
Popular Internet company : YAHOO
54
Compact name : ESTEE
55
Emergency vehicle : RAFT
56
Miss Cinders of old comics : ELLA
57
Play the lead : STAR
58
1964 Tony winner for "Foxy" : LAHR
60
"Two Mules for Sister ___" : SARA
61
Reply to "Can this be true?" : ITIS
62
Taken away by force, old-style : REFT
65
Caviar : ROE

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