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Melvin Kenworthy
Melvin Kenworthy

New York Times, Wednesday, January 9, 1991

Author:
Melvin Kenworthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Grid flow: 14.0
Melvin Kenworthy has 23 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,037
Across
1
Disable : MAIM
5
Coteries : SETS
9
Degrade : ABASE
14
Anent : ASTO
15
Stretched tight : TAUT
16
Canary's cousin : SERIN
17
Horse racing : THESPORTOFKINGS
20
Stove : HEATER
21
"___, my children ... " : LISTEN
22
Bank employee : TELLER
25
Gate : PURSE
29
Poetic contraction : EEN
30
Edible tubers : SALEP
35
On the Sargasso : ASEA
36
"___ Louse": Burns : TOA
37
Jan. 1 event : PARADE
38
Broadway production: 1959 : THESOUNDOFMUSIC
41
Vilipend : REVILE
42
Business abbr. : INC
43
Composer Bartók : BELA
44
Castle or Hervey : IRENE
45
Adj. for a noncommissioned officer : ENL
46
Singer Akers : KAREN
47
Diamond-shaped pattern : ARGYLE
49
Equus members : ONAGRI
53
TV adjunct : AERIAL
58
Cornucopia : THEHORNOFPLENTY
61
Broadcast : AIRED
62
Mardi ___ : GRAS
63
Marion follower : ETTE
64
Predestines : DOOMS
65
Huge hideosity : OGRE
66
Baseball's Brock and Whitaker : LOUS
Down
1
Trig, e.g. : MATH
2
County in N.C. : ASHE
3
Graceful tree : ITEA
4
Majority : MOST
5
Cache : STORE
6
Corn unit : EAR
7
Half a rebuke : TUT
8
Like some kisses : STOLEN
9
Makes an inquiry : ASKS
10
"___ ever so humble ... " : BEIT
11
"Comus" composer : ARNE
12
Omen : SIGN
13
One of Tennessee's twosomes : ENS
18
Fountain or Sampras : PETE
19
Evergreen : FIR
23
Writer Uris : LEON
24
Ahead : LEADING
25
"Gloria ___" : PATRI
26
Tithe collector : USHER
27
Female sandpiper : REEVE
28
Blackbuck : SASIN
30
Yank's uncle : SAM
31
Island off Venezuela : ARUBA
32
Kind of beam : LASER
33
Circus Maximus official : EDILE
34
Large hickory : PECAN
36
Calendar abbr. : TUE
37
G.I. under an NCO : PFC
39
___ Miss : OLE
40
Sole : ONLY
45
"___ bragh" : ERINGO
46
Ship part : KEEL
47
Depot abbr. : ARR
48
Memory gap : LAPSE
49
Chillicothe was its first capital : OHIO
50
Reputed fiddler : NERO
51
Attention getter : AHEM
52
Ra and Geb : GODS
54
Film spool : REEL
55
"___ the valley of ... " : INTO
56
Alaskan island : ATTU
57
Alkaline solutions : LYES
58
Little boy : TAD
59
Assn. : ORG
60
A long way off : FAR

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