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Lois Sidway
New York Times, Saturday, January 4, 1992
27-Down : ___ worse than death
Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 59, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 25.7
Lois Sidway has 67 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 18 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 L | 2 A | 3 I | 4 D | 5 O | 6 T | 7 I | 8 C | 9 E | 10 W | 11 I | 12 N | 13 G |
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14 E | C | T | O | 15 V | I | S | E | 16 M | A | N | I | A |
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17 H | E | C | K | 18 L | E | A | N | D | 19 J | E | C | K | L | E |
20 I | S | H | T | A | R | 21 T | E | A | R | O | S | E | ||
22 O | R | Y | 23 S | P | A | |||||||||
24 C | 25 O | R | D | O | 26 B | 27 A | 28 A | L | 29 E | 30 C | 31 K | |||
32 S | A | P | 33 S | U | R | F | 34 A | N | D | T | U | R | 35 F |
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36 A | G | R | 37 A | 38 E | A | T | 39 A | B | I | E |
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40 W | E | A | R | 41 A | 42 N | D | T | E | 43 A | 44 R | 45 I | S | M |
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46 R | H | I | N | O | 47 E | M | M | E | 48 T | T | S | |||
49 G | B | 50 S | 51 O | N | E | |||||||||
52 R | 53 E | 54 S | U | L | T | 55 S | 56 E | D | A | 57 M | 58 E | 59 S |
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60 H | U | S | T | L | E | A | N | 61 D | B | U | S | T | L | E |
62 O | S | T | I | A | 63 R | O | N | A | 64 E | G | A | N |
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65 S | T | A | R | R | 66 T | W | A | S | 67 R | E | N | D |
© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,397
Across
1
"And I ___ me down ... ": R.L.S. : LAID
5
Of the ear : OTIC
9
Patrick of the Knicks : EWING
14
Plasm preceder : ECTO
15
Clamp : VISE
16
Craze : MANIA
17
Cartoon duo : HECKLEANDJECKLE
20
Hoffman film: 1987 : ISHTAR
21
Yellowish-pink hue : TEAROSE
22
Kid of jazz fame : ORY
23
Vichy is one : SPA
24
Spanish city : CORDOBA
28
Smart fella? : ALECK
32
Devitalize : SAP
33
Restaurant entree : SURFANDTURF
36
Taj Mahal site : AGRA
38
Hostess's urging : EAT
39
Hershfield's "agent" : ABIE
40
Tire-blowing duo : WEARANDTEAR
45
Doctrine : ISM
46
Tapir's kin, for short : RHINO
47
Family of the composer of "Dixie" : EMMETTS
49
Literary monogram : GBS
51
Formal pronoun : ONE
52
Outcomes : RESULTS
56
Mingo of TV's "Daniel Boone" : EDAMES
60
Much ado : HUSTLEANDBUSTLE
62
Old Roman port : OSTIA
63
Columnist Barrett : RONA
64
Alaskan statesman : EGAN
65
Outlaw Belle : STARR
66
Poetic contraction : TWAS
67
Pull apart : REND
Down
1
Utah city : LEHI
2
Tennis coups : ACES
3
Yen : ITCH
4
Academic title: Ger. : DOKTOR
5
"I'm Getting Sentimental ___" : OVERYOU
6
Aunt, to Pedro : TIA
7
"___ It Romantic?" : ISNT
8
Surrenders : CEDES
9
Bright green : EMERALD
10
Baylor Bears' home : WACO
11
Signs, in slanguage : INKS
12
Khartoum's river : NILE
13
Go, to Burns : GAE
18
Embellishes : LARDS
19
Godzilla's land : JAPAN
24
Bird or a Hawk : CAGER
25
Rival of Phil and Sally : OPRAH
26
Brought up : BRED
27
___ worse than death : AFATE
29
Abbr. at O'Hare : ETA
30
Early measure of length : CUBIT
31
Herr Kringle : KRISS
32
Perceived : SAW
34
"Up and ___!" : ATEM
35
A gender: Abbr. : FEM
37
Jackie's second : ARI
41
Lean and bony : ANGULAR
42
High-minded : NOBLE
43
Simple protozoans : AMOEBAS
44
Compte ___ (record): Fr. : RENDU
48
Puzzling problem : TEASER
50
Commence : START
52
Oxidize : RUST
53
"¿Cómo ___ usted?" : ESTA
54
Pokey : STIR
55
Word with fall or ball : SNOW
57
Certain conveyance of prop. : MTGE
58
Verve : ELAN
59
Mail : SEND
60
Cries of surprise : HOS
61
Genetic letters : DNA
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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