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Michael A. Rampino
Michael A. Rampino

New York Times, Tuesday, January 12, 1993

3-Down : Arrow poison

Author:
Michael A. Rampino
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 256 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 23.6 Grid is asymmetric.
Michael A. Rampino has 33 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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B
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G
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N
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,771
Across
1
Greenland's colonizer : ERIC
5
Of a rank below prince : DUCAL
10
Famed Surrealist : DALI
14
Type of skirt : MINI
15
Aftersong : EPODE
16
Spirit : ELAN
17
Cake finisher : ICER
18
Water wheel : NORIA
19
Abel's big brother : CAIN
20
Song from "My Fair Lady" : THERAININSPAIN
23
Einstein's birthplace : ULM
24
Male turkey : TOM
25
Trunks : TORSI
28
Ian's headgear : TAM
31
Inconsequential person : SPRAT
35
Simian : APE
36
Humorist Gelett ___ : BURGESS
39
Self : EGO
40
Gene Kelly movie : SINGININTHERAIN
43
Genu : KNEE
44
Cubic meter : STERE
45
Pronoun for the Ile de France : ELLE
46
Canonized founder of the Sisters of Charity : SETON
48
Lamb's dam : EWE
49
Alter recesses : APSES
50
Extinct bird : MOA
52
Grand ___, Evangeline's home : PRE
53
"The Wizard of Oz" song : OVERTHERAINBOW
61
Civil disturbance : RIOT
62
Black and lustrous : RAVEN
63
Hill near Dublin : TARA
64
Old woman, in Bonn : ALTE
65
Pax, to Plato : IRENE
66
Cousin of etc. : ETAL
67
French-Belgian river : YSER
68
Eliot's "cruellest month" : APRIL
69
Valley : DELL
Down
1
Issue : EMIT
2
Affluent : RICH
3
Arrow poison : INEE
4
Fleecy cloud : CIRRUS
5
Jeans fabric : DENIM
6
Atop : UPON
7
Co-Nobelist in Medicine: 1947 : CORI
8
Tennis term : ADIN
9
Slightest : LEAST
10
Leave quickly : DECAMP
11
Jai ___ : ALAI
12
Homophone for lane : LAIN
13
Hostel : INN
21
Defense at court : ALIBI
22
Oater group : POSSE
25
Chores : TASKS
26
Deem : OPINE
27
Catch in a seine again : RENET
28
Stale : TRITE
29
Vice President before Ford : AGNEW
30
In Britain, 39.37 inches : METRE
32
Former Spanish coins : REALS
33
Spry : AGILE
34
Musical sounds : TONES
37
Us: Ger. : UNS
38
Haggard novel : SHE
41
Euclid was one : GEOMETER
42
Was contrite : REPENTED
47
Hide ___ hair : NOR
49
Jackie's second husband : ARI
51
Parts of hearts : ATRIA
52
Talk-show group : PANEL
53
Rembrandt's medium : OILS
54
Suffrage : VOTE
55
Dwell persistently (on) : HARP
56
Always : EVER
57
Actor Santoni : RENI
58
Lessen : BATE
59
Doctoral examination : ORAL
60
Berlin eyesore, once : WALL
61
Narrow beam : RAY

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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