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Fred Toole
Fred Toole

New York Times, Tuesday, January 1, 1991

6-Down : Embellishes

Author:
Fred Toole
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { F J Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 31.5
Fred Toole has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,029
Across
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Killer whales : ORCAS
6
Speaker's platform : DAIS
10
Con game : SCAM
14
Kind of code : MORSE
15
Besides : ELSE
16
Japanese wrestling : SUMO
17
Feed the ship's boilers : STOKE
18
Multi-hulled craft : CATAMARAN
20
New Zealand bird : KIWI
21
Actress Granville : BONITA
22
That girl : SHE
23
Curl the lip : SNEER
25
Type of chair : COXWELL
27
Unique : SINGULAR
30
Actress Peeples : NIA
31
Fruit punch : ADE
32
Gave grades : RATED
34
Kind of wave or phone : MICRO
38
Cease activity : REST
40
Ten make a decade : YEARS
42
Follow a suspect : TAIL
43
Fact : DATUM
45
"I'll Walk Alone" songwriter : STYNE
47
Honey maker : BEE
48
Roman sun god : SOL
50
Nonconformist's problem : ADAPTING
52
Rodent or hoarder : PACKRAT
56
Heavenly hunter : ORION
57
Flightless bird : EMU
58
For each : APIECE
60
Wading bird : IBIS
63
Famed British clipper ship : CUTTYSARK
65
Solitary : ALONE
66
Hosea, in the Douay Bible : OSEE
67
N.Y. canal : ERIE
68
Philippine invasion site : LEYTE
69
Withered : SERE
70
Concrete ingredient : SAND
71
Awful result of burning desire : ARSON
Down
1
Soviet city founded in 1716 : OMSK
2
Roast, in Rouen : ROTI
3
Ship's lofty lockout : CROWSNEST
4
Interviewer's activity : ASKING
5
Bishopric : SEE
6
Embellishes : DECORATES
7
Trammell of the Tigers : ALAN
8
Suffix with real or ideal : ISTIC
9
Ike's second Sec. of the Interior : SEATON
10
Govt. service for retirees : SSA
11
Malediction : CURSE
12
Menotti hero : AMAHL
13
Commercial alloy : MONEL
19
Saw : MAXIM
21
Make fast, as a rope : BELAY
24
Site of Ger. or Fr. : EUR
26
Mark time : WAIT
27
Variety of quartz : SARD
28
Thought : IDEA
29
Gaucho's lasso : REATA
33
Ashore for hull repairs : DRYDOCKED
35
Sailing ships' serving lads : CABINBOYS
36
Nothing, in Nantes : RIEN
37
Actor Vidov : OLEG
39
Elephant's incisor : TUSK
41
Trap : SNARE
44
Savage eel : MORAY
46
Steeple ornament : EPI
49
Memory blanks : LAPSES
51
Tillie of old comics : TOILER
52
Tex. river : PECOS
53
Entertain : AMUSE
54
More winsome : CUTER
55
Papal adornment : TIARA
59
The Shamrock Isle : ERIN
61
Antonym for out of : INTO
62
Homophone for scene : SEEN
64
Golfer's peg : TEE
65
In the style of : ALA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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