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Daniel Girardi
Daniel Girardi

New York Times, Saturday, August 5, 1989

39-Down : Sicilian godfather

Author:
Daniel Girardi
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F J K Q X Y }, Scrabble score: 243 (avg 1.32)
Open Squares: 82, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 22.3
Daniel Girardi has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,515
Across
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Captain Hornblower : HORATIO
8
Painting genre : POPART
14
Enhance : ELEVATE
15
Gain : REALIZE
17
Shrank : RECEDED
18
Paul Revere, for one : ARTISAN
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Pigs' kin : BOARS
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Sniggle : EEL
22
Lifeless, to Shakespeare : AMORT
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Truant G.I. : AOL
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Hawks' arena : OMNI
25
Big house : STIR
26
McDougald of baseball : GIL
27
Fallen : SLAIN
28
Lao-___, Chinese philosopher : TSE
29
Ixelles, to the Flemish : ELSENE
31
Sweet clover : MELILOT
35
Pacific herb : REA
36
A tic-tac-toe winner : OOO
37
Roman comedic writer : TERENCE
41
Garment worker : CUTTER
45
Miler Santee : WES
46
Roman god of the underworld : ORCUS
48
High note : ELA
49
Richard Harris movie: 1977 : ORCA
51
Family of an N.H.L. goalie : MIOS
52
Author of "One Human Minute" : LEM
53
Stradivari's teacher : AMATI
55
Not, in Nice : PAS
56
___ orange (bowwood) : OSAGE
58
Student's quest : DIPLOMA
60
Where 42 Down ruled : SALAMIS
62
Word with base or scene : STEALER
63
Grapevine disease : ERINOSE
64
Ancient ascetic : ESSENE
65
Certain farmers : TENANTS
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Pasture : HERBAGE
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Beef-fat by-product : OLEOOIL
3
Detroit headaches : RECALLS
4
Declare : AVER
5
Wee portions : TADS
6
Brooklyn follower : ITE
7
Dropsy, today : OEDEMA
8
Nuts and syrup concoction : PRALINE
9
Neath's opposite : OER
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___-cake (child's game) : PATA
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Muslims learned in religious matters : ALIMS
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Rice dish : RISOTTO
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Godunov adherent: Var. : TZARIST
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___ nous : ENTRE
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Certainly, to Cato : ENIM
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City on the Allegheny : OLEAN
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Old dirk : SNEE
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Foul up : ERR
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Place : LOCUS
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Debts : IOUS
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River in S France : LOT
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Home wrecker? : TERMITE
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Breaks out : ESCAPES
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Sicilian godfather : COMPARE
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Silkworm : ERIA
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Father of Ajax : TELAMON
43
Gray was one : ELEGIST
44
Egyptian king : RAMESES
45
Blue-dye plants : WOADS
47
Baby : COSSET
50
U.S. missile : ATLAS
54
Hercules's captive : IOLE
56
Light heavyweight champ: 1934-35 : OLIN
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A Yemeni capital : SANA
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" ... to become fishers of ___": Mark 1:17 : MEN
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Metric land measure : ARE

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2 unique to this puzzle, 9 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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