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Daniel Girardi
Daniel Girardi

New York Times, Thursday, November 18, 1993

Author:
Daniel Girardi
Editor:
Mel Taub
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 22.2
Daniel Girardi has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 16,081
Across
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"Diary of ___ Housewife" : AMAD
5
Memorable football coach Amos A. ___ : STAGG
10
Dangerous stinger : WASP
14
Full of vitality : GOGO
15
Portugal's answer to Hong Kong : MACAO
16
Cognizant of : ONTO
17
Director Seiter film: 1948 : ONETOUCHOFVENUS
20
Twangy : NASAL
21
Author Wiesel : ELIE
22
Contemporary of Emily : AMY
23
Pant : GASP
26
Sp. lady : SRA
28
Director Truffaut film: 1972 : TWOENGLISHGIRLS
36
Squabble : ROW
37
Honduran port : TELA
38
"Ash Wednesday" poet : ELIOT
39
Sea birds : ERNS
41
Bar shot : SNORT
43
Humane org. : SPCA
44
Took great pleasure in : ATEUP
46
Biblical disposition : UNTO
47
Musician's sine qua non : EAR
48
Director Koster film: 1936 : THREESMARTGIRLS
52
An advanced deg. : DSC
53
Of the dawn : EOAN
54
Solicit : ASK
57
Trabea : TOGA
60
Caesar's opening words : ICAME
64
Director Korda classic: 1939 : THEFOURFEATHERS
68
Spanish Surrealist painter : MIRO
69
Thermoplastic used for wrapping : SARAN
70
You are, in Spain : ERES
71
Grand Ole ___ : OPRY
72
Color of Poe's raven : EBONY
73
Dum-dum : DODO
Down
1
Stravinsky ballet : AGON
2
Actress Freeman : MONA
3
Sweet 16, 21 plus, etc. : AGES
4
Foolish affection : DOTAGE
5
Tex. campus : SMU
6
Midpoint of X-O game : TAC
7
Feel sympathy : ACHE
8
London lockup : GAOL
9
Card game for Izaak Walton? : GOFISH
10
Affliction : WOE
11
First name of Grandma Moses : ANNA
12
Unfermented grape juice : STUM
13
Bouquet : POSY
18
Buck heroine : OLAN
19
Brink : VERGE
24
Some noncoms : SGTS
25
Full assembly : PLENUM
27
Is distressed : AILS
28
Doctor : TREAT
29
Merit : WORTH
30
Proprietor : OWNER
31
Actress Massey : ILONA
32
He declined the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature : SARTRE
33
Not so green : RIPER
34
U.M.W. chapter : LOCAL
35
Performs outstandingly : STARS
40
Petitioned : SUED
42
Four-legged Oz visitor : TOTO
45
Garlicky rigatoni sauce : PESTO
49
Limey's stew : SCOUSE
50
Amble, e.g. : GAIT
51
Progressed slowly : INCHED
54
Air: Comb. form : ATMO
55
The Flying Dutchman, e.g. : SHIP
56
Walter or Jean of Broadway : KERR
58
Clutch : GRAB
59
Bushy hairdo : AFRO
61
See 54 Down : AERO
62
Alan Young's TV horse : MRED
63
It, in Italy : ESSO
65
Hope role in a 1955 movie : FOY
66
Like: Suffix : EAN
67
Time starter : ANY

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

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