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Nikki Tenfelde
Nikki Tenfelde

New York Times, Wednesday, October 21, 1981

23-Across : Poet who wrote "The Faerie Queene"

Author:
Nikki Tenfelde
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Grid flow: 26.1
Nikki Tenfelde has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,670
Across
1
Prefix with tasse : DEMI
5
Aphid, e.g. : PEST
9
Former Turkish military title : PASHA
14
Molecular part : ATOM
15
Frequent follower of for : EVER
16
Tremulous : ASPEN
17
"Ship of the desert" : DROMEDARY
19
Soothing word : THERE
20
Amorous song : SERENADE
21
Pigment containing iron oxide : SIENNA
22
Senator from Kansas : DOLE
23
Poet who wrote "The Faerie Queene" : SPENSER
24
Lightweight carriage : CHAISE
27
Give a wide berth to : SHUN
28
Relative of a mesa : LOMA
29
Players' stock : REPERTOIRE
35
Let forth : EMIT
36
Savanna : LEA
37
Top of a cliff : BROW
38
Lengthwise on a lighter : FOREANDAFT
42
Please a gourmand : SATE
43
Strong vapor : REEK
44
Where matches are brought to thousands : ARENAS
46
Kind of butterfly : EMPEROR
50
Rarae ___ : AVES
51
Spread through, causing gradual change : LEAVEN
52
Game bird : PHEASANT
56
He played alongside Mantle : MARIS
57
Irregular soldier : GUERRILLA
58
Public notice : EDICT
59
Site of a Vichy French naval defeat: 1940 : ORAN
60
Galley gear : OARS
61
Naps : RESTS
62
Accommodations at hostels : BEDS
63
Pens' business ends : NIBS
Down
1
Pops : DADS
2
To be, in Boulogne : ETRE
3
Secure, as with cables : MOOR
4
Closest : IMMEDIATE
5
Cyclist : PEDALER
6
Foil a would-be catcher : EVADE
7
Parched : SERE
8
Experiment : TRY
9
Like Griselda : PATIENT
10
Pale : ASHEN
11
Sir Patrick of ballad fame : SPENS
12
Industrial center in Germany : HERNE
13
Approaching, in poesy : ANEAR
18
TV program : ENOS
21
Stimulus : SPUR
23
Bundle, as of papers : SHEAF
24
Musical symbol : CLEF
25
___ sapiens : HOMO
26
Moslem commander : AMIR
27
Hold forth : SPEAK
30
Follower of box or marsh : ELDER
31
Monomaniac's problem : OBSESSION
32
Site of Mount Demavend : IRAN
33
Ecclesiastical court : ROTA
34
Kids' mothers : EWES
39
Retards : ARRESTS
40
Glowing gas : NEON
41
Grogshops : TAVERNS
45
Back seat : REAR
46
Gantry : ELMER
47
Civil War general : MEADE
48
Juliet's fiancé : PARIS
49
Put out bag and baggage : EVICT
50
Forward or onward : AHEAD
52
Word after simon : PURE
53
Jai ___ : ALAI
54
Body established in F.D.R.'s day : NLRB
55
Soviet news agency : TASS
57
U.S.N. tar : GOB

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