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Elio Desiderio
New York Times, Tuesday, October 22, 1991
48-Across : Needle case
Author:
Elio Desiderio
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { C Q X }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 12, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 23.2
Elio Desiderio has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 S | 2 O | 3 U | 4 L | 5 G | 6 A | 7 M | 8 E | 9 S | 10 A | 11 B | 12 I | 13 N |
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14 N | I | N | A | 15 A | N | A | T | 16 T | R | O | V | E |
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17 E | L | I | Z | 18 A | B | E | T | H | 19 B | E | N | N | E | T |
20 R | E | T | E | L | L | S | 21 S | E | R | I | E | S | ||
22 D | R | Y | 23 T | E | T | 24 E | 25 D | E | E | |||||
26 A | M | S | 27 S | 28 O | L | O | 29 A | 30 S | 31 P |
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32 E | 33 N | 34 O | L | A | 35 T | R | A | 36 A | R | L | O |
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37 M | E | L | A | N | 38 I | 39 E | H | A | M | 40 I | L | T | O | N |
41 M | I | D | I | 42 S | T | E | 43 N | A | S | T | Y |
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44 A | L | E | 45 F | R | A | T | 46 R | D | S | |||||
47 P | I | A | 48 E | 49 T | U | I | 50 I | 51 D | 52 A |
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53 D | 54 E | A | L | E | 55 R | 56 R | I | A | 57 L | T | O | S |
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58 K | R | Y | S | T | L | E | 59 J | E | N | N | I | N | G | S |
60 H | A | R | T | E | 61 A | O | N | E | 62 D | O | M | E |
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63 A | M | E | E | R | 64 R | E | D | D | 65 S | W | A | T |
© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,323
Across
1
Essence : SOUL
5
Plucky : GAME
9
Vaccine name : SABIN
14
Pinta sister ship : NINA
15
Premed course : ANAT
16
Treasure ___ : TROVE
17
Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy : ELIZABETHBENNET
20
Narrates again : RETELLS
21
Sequences : SERIES
22
Arid : DRY
23
Head, to Jacques : TETE
25
River in Scotland : DEE
26
Morning hrs. : AMS
27
Alone : SOLO
29
Cleo's "executioner" : ASP
32
___ Gay (famed plane) : ENOLA
35
___-la-la : TRA
36
Woody's son : ARLO
37
Mrs. Ashley Wilkes : MELANIEHAMILTON
41
Noon, to Henri : MIDI
42
Sault ___ Marie : STE
43
Mean : NASTY
44
Tavern brew : ALE
45
Campus house, for short : FRAT
46
Flamingo and Tobacco: Abbr. : RDS
47
Entertainer Zadora : PIA
48
Needle case : ETUI
50
Actress Lupino : IDA
53
Vendor : DEALER
56
Marketplaces : RIALTOS
58
Mrs. Blake Carrington : KRYSTLEJENNINGS
60
Ah Sin's creator : HARTE
61
First-rate : AONE
62
Cupola : DOME
63
Turkish official : AMEER
64
Colorful Foxx : REDD
65
Clout : SWAT
Down
1
Bergen's Mortimer : SNERD
2
Houston athlete : OILER
3
Solidarity : UNITY
4
Loll : LAZE
5
Septet on Hawthorne's house : GABLES
6
"___ of robins ... " : ANEST
7
Doily : MAT
8
Ordinal-number suffixes : ETHS
9
Sound system : STEREO
10
He has a weaponless army : ARNIE
11
Kind of china : BONE
12
Burl ___ : IVES
13
Court divider : NET
18
"Nashville" director : ALTMAN
19
Confusion : BEDLAM
24
Art connoisseur : ESTHETE
26
Jai ___ : ALAI
28
"___ pro nobis" : ORA
29
Linkletter and Carney : ARTS
30
Keyhole : SLOT
31
___ express : PONY
32
Mme. Bovary : EMMA
33
Simon or Diamond : NEIL
34
Ye ___ Tea Shoppe : OLDE
36
"Woe is me!" : ALAS
38
It has an Acre : ISRAEL
39
Greek vowel : ETA
40
Cree, e.g. : INDIAN
45
Strain : FILTER
46
Destroyed : RUINED
47
Cheap jewelry : PASTE
49
Drift : TREND
50
"See ___," Murrow TV show : ITNOW
51
Belief : DOGMA
52
Plus factor : ASSET
53
Small measure : DRAM
54
"Jane ___" : EYRE
55
Raise : REAR
57
Covers : LIDS
58
Nepalese native : KHA
59
DiMaggio or Medwick : JOE
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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