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Richard Silvestri
Richard Silvestri

New York Times, Wednesday, October 21, 1992

Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { K Q U Z }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 24.1
Richard Silvestri has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 84 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,688
Across
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Left, at sea : PORT
5
Private hoard : STASH
10
In the thick of : AMID
14
Actress McClurg : EDIE
15
Neighbor of Chad : NIGER
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Life, to Luis : VIDA
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Hayes's Vice President : WILLIAMAWHEELER
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Less well-to-do : NEEDIER
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Like Gatsby : GREAT
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An Olympic medal : GOLD
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Dray : CART
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Choker components : PEARLS
28
Leave the neighborhood : MOVE
29
Feathery neckpiece : BOA
32
"___ boy!" : ATTA
33
Helpers : AIDES
34
North Pole worker : ELF
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Wilson's Vice President : THOMASRMARSHALL
39
Cookie holder : TIN
40
Nominates : NAMES
41
China setting : ASIA
42
Rocks at the bar : ICE
43
Scott of legal note : DRED
44
Group of seven : SEPTET
46
Droughty : ARID
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Respond to a shock : GASP
48
Pursue : CHASE
51
Sweet age : SIXTEEN
54
Van Buren's Vice President : RICHARDMJOHNSON
58
Commedia dell'___ : ARTE
59
Hunter in the sky : ORION
60
Luncheon ending : ETTE
61
Chow follower : MEIN
62
Computer units : BYTES
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Homeowner's holding : DEED
Down
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Seat for the masses? : PEW
2
Valhalla god : ODIN
3
Get one's goat : RILE
4
Wire : TELEGRAM
5
Slowpokes : SNAILS
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Used a stopwatch : TIMED
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Seaweed product : AGAR
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Make hems : SEW
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Kingly letters : HRH
10
Forestall : AVERT
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Eight furlongs : MILE
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Brainstorm : IDEA
13
Move like a dragonfly : DART
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Singer Billy ___ : IDOL
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Way out : EGRESS
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Musical endings : CODAS
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State with confidence : AVER
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Page of music : PATTI
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Professional standard : ETHIC
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Expiate : ATONE
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Emulated Marceau : MIMED
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Beauty lover : BEAST
30
TV dragon : OLLIE
31
G-sharp equivalent : AFLAT
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Ready for battle : ARMED
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___ Doria, ill-fated ship : ANDREA
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Delhi wear : SARI
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Came to pass : HAPPENED
44
Angles' partners : SAXONS
45
Bk. before Job : ESTH
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Bloodless : ASHEN
47
Enlisted man : GIJOE
48
Stuff : CRAM
49
Put on the payroll : HIRE
50
Overture follower : ACTI
51
Hit hard, old style : SMIT
52
Ferrara family name : ESTE
53
Quaver, e.g. : NOTE
55
Stick up : ROB
56
Martini preference : DRY
57
A Beatty of films : NED

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