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Patricia A. Cevaal
New York Times, Wednesday, November 27, 1991
Author:
Patricia A. Cevaal
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 28.6
1 B | 2 A | 3 A | 4 L | | | 5 C | 6 A | 7 L | 8 F | | 9 L | 10 A | 11 P | 12 S |
13 O | R | L | E | | 14 D | O | R | A | L | | 15 A | V | O | W |
16 S | L | O | W | 17 B | O | A | T | T | O | 18 C | H | I | N | A |
19 C | O | P | I | L | O | T | S | | 20 W | A | R | D | E | N |
| | | 21 S | A | M | E | | 22 B | E | T | | | | |
23 M | 24 I | 25 T | | 26 R | E | D | 27 C | O | R | V | 28 E | 29 T | 30 T | 31 E |
32 A | D | O | 33 R | E | D | | 34 L | A | Y | | 35 M | A | R | L |
36 R | E | P | A | D | | 37 B | A | S | | 38 V | I | R | A | L |
39 C | A | E | N | | 40 R | O | I | | 41 T | I | R | A | D | E |
42 O | L | D | G | 43 R | E | Y | M | 44 A | R | E | | 45 S | E | N |
| | | | 46 E | N | D | | 47 D | A | N | 48 A | | | |
49 B | 50 L | 51 A | 52 I | N | E | | 53 F | O | U | N | T | 54 A | 55 I | 56 N |
57 Y | E | L | L | O | W | 58 S | U | B | M | A | R | I | N | E |
59 T | O | L | E | | 60 A | T | S | E | A | | 61 I | R | K | S |
62 E | N | I | D | | 63 L | E | E | S | | | 64 P | E | A | T |
© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,359
Across
1
5
Elmer and Elsie's baby :
CALF9
Drinks like a kitten :
LAPS13
Border on a knight's shield :
ORLE14
Fla. golf tournament :
DORAL15
16
19
20
Lewis E. Lawes was one :
WARDEN21
22
23
26
With "Little," Prince's transportation in 1983? :
REDCORVETTE32
34
35
Loose, crumbly earth :
MARL36
Do an upholsterer's job anew :
REPAD37
38
Like measles, mumps, etc. :
VIRAL39
40
41
42
With "The," Gus Bailey's transportation in 1917? :
OLDGREYMARE45
46
47
49
Actress Vivian from Newark :
BLAINE53
57
59
Lacquered metalware :
TOLE60
61
62
63
64
Down
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
He played the Cowardly Lion :
LAHR10
11
12
Tchaikovsky's "___ Lake" :
SWAN14
17
Sounded like a boom box :
BLARED18
Means of home entertainment: Abbr. :
CATV22
Constricting scarves? :
BOAS23
O'Neill's "___ Millions" :
MARCO24
25
27
Forty-niner's property :
CLAIM28
29
Gogol's "___ Bulba" :
TARAS30
Wall Street transaction :
TRADE31
Burstyn or Glasgow :
ELLEN33
37
38
It's Wien to Austrians :
VIENNA40
41
43
44
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
Durante's "___ Dinka Doo" :
INKA56
58
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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