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Vaughn Keith
Vaughn Keith

New York Times, Saturday, November 19, 1988

Author:
Vaughn Keith
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 5.17, Missing: { B F J K Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 60, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 28.4
Vaughn Keith has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,256
Across
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Military exchange : POST
5
Nice friend : AMI
8
Macadamize : PAVE
12
Main ingredient of menudo : TRIPE
13
Prosperous; peaceful : SATURNIAN
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Unwind : RELAX
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Erratic : PLANETARY
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"Dido and Aeneas," for one : OPERA
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Plural ending : IES
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Monogram of a memorable poet : TSE
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Parabolic weeds in the Bible : TARES
22
Prefix with Baptist or basis : ANA
23
Communications initials : ITT
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Org. : SYST
25
Danish, e.g. : PASTRY
28
Popular TV comic, for short : COS
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"The ___ of Greece ... " : ISLES
31
City on the Vistula : TORUN
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An antiseptic : MERCUROCHROME
36
One of the Alaskans : ALEUT
37
Family of a Korean president : RHEES
38
Auxiliary verb : ARE
39
Shed : MOLTED
41
Young demons : IMPS
45
Chew the fat : RAP
46
En tout ___ (at any rate): Fr. : CAS
47
"For want of ___ ... " : ANAIL
48
Suffix with sheep or child : ISH
49
___-Magnon : CRO
50
A Fla. key : LARGO
51
Wasted : EMACIATED
55
Small map : INSET
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Chinese revolutionary : SUNYATSEN
57
Chalcidian mountain : ATHOS
58
W.W. II battle site : STLO
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Issue for NOW : ERA
60
Writer O'Faoláin : SEAN
Down
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Advance, in a way : PREPAY
2
A.F.C. team : OILERS
3
Spread caused by too many spreads : SPARETIRE
4
Where to find 2 Down : TEXAS
5
Prop for Elizabeth Taylor : ASP
6
___ de siècle : MAL
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"___ Necessarily So" : ITAINT
8
C.I.C. : PRES
9
Myrmecologist's subject : ANT
10
Voyager's supplies : VIATICUM
11
Otolith : EARSTONE
12
Jogs : TROTS
14
Emulated Schliemann : UNEARTHED
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Muscovite negatives : NYETS
22
Classifies : ASSORTS
25
Wealthy ruler : PLUTOCRAT
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Air, in compounds : AER
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Long ago, long ago : YORE
30
Floating algae : SCUM
32
Don Quixote's horse : ROSINANTE
33
Infant's malnutrition : MARASMUS
34
Babar, e.g. : ELEPHANT
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Guevara : CHE
38
Constellation near Andromeda : ARIES
40
Founder of Taoism : LAOTSE
42
Actress ___ Mason : MARSHA
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Trafalgar Square denizen : PIGEON
44
Atlantic City machines : SLOTS
47
A k a : ALIAS
49
Aloha, in Italy : CIAO
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Engine part: Abbr. : CYL
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Poetic contraction : EER
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Genetic material : DNA

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

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