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Bryant White
New York Times, Saturday, February 6, 1993
3-Down : What shysters do
Author:
Bryant White
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.34, Missing: { Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 42.0
Bryant White has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 29 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 P | 2 O | 3 P | 4 E | 5 D | 6 O | 7 M | 8 C | 9 A | 10 S | 11 T | 12 A |
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13 A | V | E | R | A | G | E | 14 E | L | I | T | E | S |
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15 J | E | T | T | I | E | S | 16 F | L | A | M | E | N | S |
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17 A | R | T | E | L | 18 C | 19 U | R | E | D | 20 R | A | E |
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21 M | A | I | S | 22 P | A | N | I | C | 23 S | E | N | T |
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24 A | L | F | 25 G | A | L | L | E | 26 S | P | O | T | S |
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27 L | O | 28 R | A | N | 29 I | N | 30 T | E | R | |||||
31 G | O | O | D | 32 A | N | D | E | V | I | 33 L | ||||
34 B | L | A | N | K | 35 P | E | T | E | 36 S | |||||
37 H | 38 A | 39 B | E | S | 40 T | I | 41 G | E | R | 42 V | I | 43 A |
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44 O | D | E | S | 45 U | L | N | A | E | 46 S | A | N | D |
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47 M | O | B | 48 G | R | E | G | G | 49 B | A | N | C | O |
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50 B | R | O | 51 I | L | E | R | 52 G | 53 R | A | N | G | E | R |
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54 R | E | P | L | A | Y | 55 L | A | N | T | E | R | N |
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56 E | S | S | E | D | 57 E | N | C | O | R | E | S |
© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,796
Across
1
John Paul II's tenure : POPEDOM
8
"___ diva," Bellini aria : CASTA
13
Medium : AVERAGE
14
Ten-point types : ELITES
15
Piers : JETTIES
16
Pantheon priests : FLAMENS
17
Soviet workers' cooperative : ARTEL
18
Smoked meat : CURED
20
Actress ___ Dawn Chong : RAE
21
Caen corn : MAIS
22
Type of button : PANIC
23
Delivered : SENT
24
TV alien : ALF
25
Noted French glass-vase designer : GALLE
26
Ocelots have lots of these : SPOTS
27
Navigator's aid : LORAN
29
Prefix with pose : INTER
31
Well-known forces : GOODANDEVIL
34
Empty : BLANK
35
Sampras and Fountain : PETES
37
"Aftermath" author and family : HABES
40
Blake subject : TIGER
42
By way of : VIA
44
Epinicia : ODES
45
Neighbors of radii : ULNAE
46
Fortitude : SAND
47
Canaille : MOB
48
Shorthand system : GREGG
49
Baccarat declaration : BANCO
50
Certain chicken : BROILER
52
Farmer : GRANGER
54
Madden might analyze it : REPLAY
55
Bull's-eye, e.g. : LANTERN
56
Gaul's chariot : ESSED
57
Bonuses at concerts : ENCORES
Down
1
"The ___ Game," Day film : PAJAMA
2
Including everything : OVERALL
3
What shysters do : PETTIFOG
4
Lithographs by a Russian-born artist : ERTES
5
Ireland's lower house : DAIL
6
Haitian national hero : OGE
7
Small cactus : MESCAL
8
Accoutered : CLAD
9
Goal : AIM
10
Kind of camera : STEREO
11
Anne Brontë's "The ___ of Wildfell Hall" : TENANT
12
Property and cash : ASSETS
14
"Monopoly" co. : ELEC
16
Quaker, to Quaker : FRIEND
19
Separating a chain : UNLINKING
22
Bearcat : PANDA
23
Spar for a leg-of-mutton sail : SPRIT
25
London lockups : GAOLS
26
Cleave : SEVER
28
Galabias : ROBES
30
Fox's home : TEPEE
32
Crown or surroyal : ANTLER
33
Town in Norway : LEVANGER
36
Genuine : SINCERE
37
Guy : HOMBRE
38
Loves greatly : ADORES
39
Jazz styles : BEBOPS
41
Flock of geese : GAGGLE
43
Embellishes : ADORNS
45
Deuterium's discoverer : UREY
46
___ Domingo : SANTO
48
Happy : GLAD
49
Judge's bench : BANC
51
___ de France : ILE
53
Aegir's wife : RAN
Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.