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Virginia L. Yates
Virginia L. Yates

New York Times, Friday, October 18, 1991

45-Across : Mrs. Kowalski

Author:
Virginia L. Yates
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.63, Missing: { V X }, Scrabble score: 449 (avg 2.43)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 14, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 19.0
Virginia L. Yates has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,319
Across
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"Let us ___ die!": Burns : DOOR
5
Topknot : CREST
10
Lose pizazz : FLAG
14
Rice-shaped pasta : ORZO
15
Word to Dolly : HELLO
16
Craze : RAGE
17
Bankrupt firm? : FIZZLEDBIZ
19
Concerning : INRE
20
"Murder at the ___": Margaret Truman : FBI
21
Knock for ___ : ALOOP
22
A Walton : IZAAK
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Sonora snooze : SIESTA
25
Thing easy to do : WALTZ
27
Finish first : WIN
28
Wake, for one : ISLAND
32
Passengers' area in a plane : CABIN
35
Charlie Parker's specialty : JAZZ
38
" ... ___ saw Elba" : EREI
39
Forty-eighth st. : ARIZ
40
Mario of music : LANZA
41
More minute : WEER
42
Ring : BUZZ
43
Court crier's word : OYEZ
44
Whit : SHADE
45
Mrs. Kowalski : STELLA
47
___-disant (so-called) : SOI
48
Quilt source : EIDER
51
Cheer : HUZZAH
55
One from Kirkuk : IRAQI
58
Adds punch to the punch : LACES
60
"___ Man Answers," 1962 film : IFA
61
Freud's "Totem und ___" : TABU
62
Irate Taylor? : SIZZLEDLIZ
64
Cherie's case : ETUI
65
Ermine in summer : STOAT
66
Rod multiple : ACRE
67
Historic city on the Moselle : METZ
68
Toweling : TERRY
69
Slough : SHED
Down
1
Takes off : DOFFS
2
Bushbuck's kin : ORIBI
3
One of the Nelsons : OZZIE
4
Cartoonist Chast : ROZ
5
Lake in Wash. : CHELAN
6
Fix up : REDO
7
Shove : ELBOW
8
___ cog (err) : SLIPA
9
From A ___ : TOZ
10
Hairdresser? : FRIZZLEWHIZ
11
Singer Cantrell : LANA
12
Taj Mahal's locale : AGRA
13
A carny : GEEK
18
Quarter in Paris : LATIN
22
"___ in the bag!" : ITS
24
Part of a bartender's test? : SWIZZLEQUIZ
26
"Li'l ___ Jane," 1916 song : LIZA
29
Kind of code : AREA
30
Indigence : NEED
31
___ Straits, rock group : DIRE
32
Yonkers honkers : CABS
33
In ___ (stuck) : ARUT
34
Cold wind: Var. : BIZE
35
First Chief Justice : JAY
36
One, in Ayr : ANE
37
What a snorer counts : ZZZ
40
Thing to get off one's mind : LOAD
44
Pickle : SOUSE
46
Twice XXVI : LII
47
Sheepdog : SHELTY
49
Top-drawer : ELITE
50
Tonsorial tool : RAZOR
52
Zip : ZILCH
53
Like a house ___ : AFIRE
54
Clouded : HAZED
55
New Hollywood couple : ITEM
56
Count : RATE
57
Touch on : ABUT
59
Boris Godunov was one : CZAR
62
J.F.K. visitor : SST
63
Some legal eagles, for short : DAS

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

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