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Lois Sidway
Lois Sidway

New York Times, Wednesday, October 23, 1991

Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 38.7
Lois Sidway has 67 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 18 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,324
Across
1
CCC : GRAB
5
Carrara coins : LIRE
9
Matinee hero : IDOL
13
Biblical peak : NEBO
14
Fruit drink : CIDER
15
Illegality : NONO
16
19
Window-box bloom : PETUNIA
20
Restaurant : EATERY
21
"___ of the Sun ... ," 1935 song : EAST
22
Greek peak : OSSA
23
Turn aside : SWERVE
26
Aerial : ANTENNA
29
Cousin of nope : NIX
30
Follow : ENSUE
32
Scalawag : SCAMP
34
"Hansen and Gretel" prop : OVEN
36
For all, to Verdi : TUTTI
38
Abu Dhabi leader : EMIR
39
Ky. college : BEREA
41
Inclined : PRONE
43
Folk-forming suffix : ESE
44
Hockey's ___ Cup : STANLEY
46
Like partly melted snow : SLOSHY
48
Layer : TIER
49
Abound : TEEM
50
"___ Girl ... ," 1911 song : IWANTA
53
Home of the Big Red : CORNELL
56
59
Bird, to Pliny : AVIS
60
Skips : OMITS
61
Part of A.D. : ANNO
62
Monocle part : LENS
63
Boy, in Bilbao : NINO
64
YYY : SAGE
Down
1
U.S. economy gauge : GNP
2
Enlist again : REUP
3
Fit : ABLE
4
Runaway horse, e.g. : BOLTER
5
Restrict : LIMIT
6
Thought : IDEA
7
Car of yesteryear : REO
8
Screenwriter Lehman : ERNEST
9
Example : INSTANCE
10
Subsistence : DOLE
11
Unique soul : ONER
12
Sluggish : LOGY
14
Permission : CONSENT
17
Urbane : SUAVE
18
Lessens : EASES
22
___ a customer : ONETO
23
One with a superiority complex : SNOB
24
Some Windsor women : WIVES
25
Put forth effort : EXERT
26
"In the Heat of the Night" actor : AUTRY
27
Monikers : NAMES
28
Some Mennonites : AMISH
31
Really nifty : SUPER
33
Quarry : PREY
35
It often counts : NEATNESS
37
Newspaper extras : INSERTS
40
Writer Loos : ANITA
42
Actress Verdugo : ELENA
45
Lure : LEADON
47
Conclusions : OMEGAS
49
Silverheels role : TONTO
50
Type type: Abbr. : ITAL
51
Undulation : WAVE
52
Related : AKIN
53
First base man? : CAIN
54
Actress Olin : LENA
55
Yearn : LONG
57
Stonewall J. taught here : VMI
58
Grant, to Lee : FOE

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1 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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