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Whit
Whit

New York Times, Friday, November 1, 1991

10-Across : "Wizard ___," Parker-Hart comic

Author:
Whit
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 62.2 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Whit has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,333
Across
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Noisome : OLID
5
___ grudge (have malice) : BEARA
10
"Wizard ___," Parker-Hart comic : OFID
14
Trident feature : TINE
15
Firth of Clyde isle : ARRAN
16
One of the Nereids : DOTO
17
Fool's gold : IRONPYRITE
19
Tolkien creatures : ORCS
20
Unit of luminous intensity : CANDLE
21
Crème ___, stinger ingredient : DEMENTHE
23
Steak order : RARE
25
Half-witted : DOTTY
26
Novice : BEGINNER
30
Musical Jimmie and Peter : NOONES
33
Ham it up : EMOTE
34
Camel's first stomach : RUMEN
36
Cephalopod's smoke screen : INK
37
Mah-jongg piece : TILE
38
Phrygian king : MIDAS
39
Celebes ox : ANOA
40
Antiquity, in antiquity : ELD
41
Indigent : NEEDY
42
Sluggish : INERT
43
___ base (box-score statistic) : LEFTON
45
Spar parts : YARDARMS
47
Architectural order : IONIC
49
Vend : SELL
50
Sea east of the Sulu Sea : MINDANAO
53
Seesaw : TEETER
57
Kafka heroine : OLGA
58
Bulbul's lavish prison : GILDEDCAGE
60
Borscht ingredient : BEET
61
Silkworms : ERIAS
62
Type of work : TEAM
63
Time long past : YORE
64
Single drink : SNORT
65
Actor Ray : ALDO
Down
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Auricular : OTIC
2
Coin equaling 100 centesimi : LIRA
3
Involved with : INON
4
Branch of a neuron : DENDRITE
5
Munich's Staat : BAYERN
6
Slip or trip : ERR
7
Hardscrabble : ARID
8
Gave a value to : RATED
9
Windflowers : ANEMONES
10
Tooth: Comb. form : ODONTO
11
Montana, e.g. : FORTYNINER
12
Desire : ITCH
13
Prescribed amount : DOSE
18
Kind of geometry : PLANE
22
Stiff collar : ETON
24
Spectral : EERIE
26
Palm variety : BETEL
27
Novelist Zola : EMILE
28
Fleming thriller : GOLDFINGER
29
Reddish : RUDDY
31
Huge, old style : ENORM
32
Three-handed card games : SKATS
35
Yucatán Indians : MAYAS
38
Brain-enveloping membranes : MENINGES
39
Collection of literary passages : ANALECTA
41
Singer-songwriter Hendryx : NONA
42
Ran in neutral : IDLED
44
So far : TODATE
46
Assay anew : RETEST
48
Heap of stones : CAIRN
50
"___-Dick" : MOBY
51
Former Congolese P.M. : ILEO
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Hodgepodge : OLIO
54
Chinese weight : TAEL
55
Mild oath : EGAD
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San ___, Riviera resort : REMO
59
Nabokov novel : DAR

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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