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Kevin Boyle
Kevin Boyle

New York Times, Saturday, January 21, 1989

7-Down : Adventuress of a sort

Author:
Kevin Boyle
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.49, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 94, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Kevin Boyle has 32 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,319
Across
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Sunday in le parc : DIMANCHE
9
Herbert Bayard ___, U.S. journalist : SWOPE
14
Captivated : ENAMORED
15
Force of 1588 : ARMADA
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Fix up : RENOVATE
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Legume-family plant : PEANUT
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Sicilian seaport : MESSINA
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Ship's boat : PINNACE
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"The Sultan of Sulu" playwright : ADE
22
Uncanny : EERIE
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Romance lang. : ITAL
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Ornamental band : GADROON
27
Bristle: Comb. form : SETI
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Kind of code or colony : PENAL
31
Slangy contractions : AINTS
33
First U.N. Secretary General : LIE
34
Where Travis was besieged : ALAMO
35
___-nothing effort : ALLOR
37
Thrust : RAM
38
Vale between Ossa and Olympus : TEMPE
43
Wealth : MEANS
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Not up : ABED
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Talked vaingloriously : VAUNTED
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Curative quantity : DOSE
49
Actor Robert from Toronto : URICH
50
Romanized Kubrick film : MMI
53
In an angry way : IRATELY
55
Watchman : LOOKOUT
58
Old World falcons : SAKERS
59
Mobcap : DORMEUSE
60
Forever, once : ETERNE
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One who runs a smear campaign : ASPERSER
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Snaky characters : ESSES
63
Acumen : KEENNESS
Down
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Layer of skin : DERMA
2
"___ You," Beatles song : INEED
3
Parsonage : MANSE
4
Shepherd-prophet : AMOS
5
___ Sad, Yugoslav city : NOVI
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Stretched to see : CRANED
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Adventuress of a sort : HETAERA
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Nigerian city : EDE
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Wise : SAPIENT
10
English architect : WREN
11
Muscat natives : OMANIS
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Cigar variety : PANATELLA
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Pedagogy : EDUCATION
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Workshops : ATELIERS
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Nuclear particle : PION
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Hugues Capet was one : ROI
25
Social visit, at sea : GAM
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"Thanks ___!" : ALOT
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Miltonic locale : PARADISE
29
Detailed : ELABORATE
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People with identical given appellations : NAMESAKES
32
Corresponding : SAME
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Pioneered : LED
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Extracts forcibly : EVULSES
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Contrary female? : MARY
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Henry ___, last emperor of China : PUI
42
Girdle : ENCLOSE
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Checks : DETERS
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U.S. athlete: 1888-1953 : THORPE
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Shiner : MOUSE
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Ruminates : MUSES
52
Anatomical passageways : ITERS
54
One of the Haliaeetus genus : ERNE
56
Augury : OMEN
57
"Roberta" composer : KERN
59
Former U.S. terr. : DAK

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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