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Roger H. Courtney
New York Times, Friday, January 18, 1991
7-Down : Small songbird
Author:
Roger H. Courtney
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 244 (avg 1.29)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 20.7
Roger H. Courtney has 10 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 L | 2 I | 3 S | 4 T | 5 D | 6 I | 7 T | 8 T | 9 O | 10 V | 11 A | 12 S | 13 T |
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14 O | V | E | R | 15 A | B | I | E | S | 16 A | G | H | A |
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17 S | A | T | E | 18 L | L | I | T | E | S | 19 S | A | A | R |
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20 E | N | T | A | I | L | S | 21 M | I | 22 S | S | I | L | E |
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23 T | E | A | 24 C | H | A | N | T | S |
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25 I | 26 N | 27 T | E | R | S | 28 T | 29 E | 30 L | L | A | R | |||
31 L | E | E | R | S | 32 A | D | E | E | M | 33 A | 34 C | 35 T |
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36 E | R | A | S | 37 S | T | I | E | S | 38 P | R | A | E |
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39 S | O | L | 40 S | T | A | L | K | 41 G | O | E | R | S |
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42 T | E | R | R | E | S | 43 T | R | I | A | L | S |
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44 A | 45 S | 46 S | U | R | E | 47 R | A | S | ||||||
48 P | L | A | N | E | T | 49 S | 50 C | O | C | O | 51 O | 52 N | 53 S |
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54 P | O | L | E | 55 C | H | 56 A | L | L | E | N | G | E | R |
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57 A | P | E | R | 58 H | O | R | A | L | 59 E | L | I | A |
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60 L | E | S | S | 61 Y | E | A | N | S | 62 D | E | N | S |
© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,046
Across
1
Price preceder : LIST
5
Idem : DITTO
10
Boundless : VAST
14
Done with : OVER
15
Start of a 1922 Broadway title : ABIES
16
Muslim general : AGHA
17
Moon and Telstar : SATELLITES
19
French-German river : SAAR
20
Necessarily involves : ENTAILS
21
The Titan, for one : MISSILE
23
Assam, e.g. : TEA
24
Intonations : CHANTS
25
Between Scheat and Chara, e.g. : INTERSTELLAR
31
Lascivious stares : LEERS
32
Revoke a legacy : ADEEM
33
Pretend : ACT
36
You were, to Cato : ERAS
37
Pens for Porky : STIES
38
Before: Prefix : PRAE
39
Roman sun god : SOL
40
Celery stem : STALK
41
Socially active people : GOERS
42
Earthlings : TERRESTRIALS
44
Confirm : ASSURE
47
___ Addar (Cape Bon) : RAS
48
Celestial revolvers : PLANETS
50
Encloses protectively : COCOONS
54
Item for Walton : POLE
55
U.S. space shuttle : CHALLENGER
57
Mimicker : APER
58
Every 60 minutes : HORAL
59
Phillies' former manager : ELIA
60
Minus : LESS
61
Brings forth lambs : YEANS
62
Retreats : DENS
Down
1
Come in second : LOSE
2
Lendl of tennis : IVAN
3
Small paving stone : SETT
4
They pickup the tab : TREATERS
5
J. R.'s city : DALLAS
6
Relative of a stork : IBIS
7
Small songbird : TIT
8
Abound : TEEM
9
Small bones : OSSICLES
10
Coed college in Poughkeepsie : VASSAR
11
One more time : AGAIN
12
Commandment verb : SHALT
13
Vetches : TARES
18
Predators, at times : LIERS
22
Simulacrum : SHAM
25
Sights on the Seine : ILES
26
Third spouse of Poppaea Sabina : NERO
27
Greenish blue : TEAL
28
Turkic language : TATAR
29
Young Caesar was one : EDILE
30
Onions' cousins : LEEKS
33
Type of code or rug : AREA
34
Astronomer Sagan : CARL
35
Dick Tracy's wife : TESS
37
Elastic : STRETCHY
38
Polluted, as pens or minds : POISONED
40
Parched : SERE
41
Pre-meal thanks : GRACE
42
Parts of radios : TUNERS
43
Derelicts: Slang : TROLLS
44
Shock : APPAL
45
Incline : SLOPE
46
Kind of resistance : SALES
49
Ghillie, e.g. : SHOE
50
Dhu's group : CLAN
51
Oeillade : OGLE
52
No, in Nürnberg : NEIN
53
Sp. matrons : SRAS
56
Altar on high : ARA
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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