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Kenneth Haxton
Kenneth Haxton

New York Times, Saturday, January 7, 1989

Author:
Kenneth Haxton
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { F J Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 25.7 Grid has duplicate clues.
Kenneth Haxton has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,305
Across
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Kind of terrier : CAIRN
6
Some are fine : ARTS
10
Actor Badel : ALAN
14
An Asian capital : HANOI
15
Savage Island : NIUE
16
Frank's place : DELI
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Instrument played by Schweitzer : ORGAN
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Ancient Middle East city : ACRE
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Reclined : LAIN
20
Do a garden chore : WEED
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Rays : SKATES
25
"Rosamond" composer : ARNE
26
Hideous ones : UGLIES
29
Hitchcock's thirty-nine items : STEPS
31
Family of the author of "Hard Cash" : READES
32
Judd Hirsch vehicle : TAXI
33
But, to Cicero : SED
36
S Sardinian town : ARRESI
37
Gauche : CLUMSY
39
Guided : LED
40
Listen : HEAR
43
Light : ILLUME
44
"M" star : LORRE
45
Oscillate : TOTTER
46
Prolific auth. : ANON
48
Palestinian sect member : ESSENE
50
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Lloyd Douglas novel subject : ROBE
56
Clark Kent's inamorata : LOIS
57
"Summer and Smoke" heroine : ALMA
58
Put on TV : AIRED
59
Concerning : INRE
60
Earth's inheritors : MEEK
61
Dog : CORGI
62
Hammer part : PEEN
63
Being: Lat. : ESSE
64
Obliterate : ERASE
Down
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Dog : CHOW
2
Swiss river : AARE
3
"Picnic" playwright : INGE
4
Where to find a shoulder : ROADSIDE
5
Author Anaïs : NIN
6
Put on ___ (pretend) : ANACT
7
Most affluent : RICHEST
8
Visitor traveling in Italia : TURISTA
9
Ooze : SEEP
10
Mortimer and Stella : ADLERS
11
Ascertain : LEARN
12
Similar : ALIKE
13
Broadway musical: 1982 : NINE
21
More insolent : SASSIER
22
Dog : PAPILLON
24
Dog : KEESHOND
26
U.S.S.R.'s ___ Mountains : URAL
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Actor from Philadelphia : GERE
28
Cooking fat : LARD
30
All agog : EXCITED
33
Obscenity : SMUT
34
Salinger girl : ESME
35
Cloth tinter : DYER
38
More remote : ULTERIOR
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Bases of cacti spines : AREOLES
42
Curricula vitae : RESUMES
44
Relax : LOOSEN
46
Solo : ALONE
47
Bête ___ : NOIRE
49
Krait, e.g. : SNAKE
50
Image on a radar screen : BLIP
51
Draft-harness part : HAME
53
Odd, to Burns : ORRA
54
What a mendicant does : BEGS
55
Stein-Plimpton biography : EDIE
58
Tennis coup : ACE

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

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