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Peggy Devlin
Peggy Devlin

New York Times, Tuesday, February 18, 1992

Author:
Peggy Devlin
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J K Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 32.2
Peggy Devlin has 9 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,442
Across
1
Town for a wife : BATH
5
Commodious : AMPLE
10
Laver rival, once : ASHE
14
Yearn : ACHE
15
Large archipelago : MALAY
16
Take ___ leave it : ITOR
17
Improve : AMELIORATE
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Nicaraguan native : RAMA
20
Flop : LEMON
21
Org. for Gretzky : NHL
22
Signs for solid hits : SROS
23
Garb : ATTIRE
26
Lead-in for plasm : ECTO
28
Pen : CAN
30
Part of Q.E.F. : ERAT
31
Covered with sod : TURFED
34
Stat for Bonilla : RBI
35
Strictness : RIGOR
37
Official book : BIBLE
38
Ages and ages : EONS
40
Creator of Moll Flanders : DEFOE
42
Flea or fly : PEST
43
Green strokes : PUTTS
45
Unfermented grape juices : STUMS
47
Windsor, e.g. : TIE
48
Moral determinant : ETHICS
50
Half: Prefix : HEMI
51
"Leave ___ to heaven": Shak. : HER
52
The "Iliad" is one : EPIC
53
Gloss : ENAMEL
55
Flaccid : LIMP
57
Lawyers' org. : ABA
59
Clumsy : INEPT
62
Graven image : IDOL
63
Judge, at times : REPROACHER
66
Icy sea mass : FLOE
67
Erase : CLEAR
68
Soprano Grist : RERI
69
Incline : TEND
70
Comforted : EASED
71
Ratite birds : EMUS
Down
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Ancient Semitic god : BAAL
2
Peak : ACME
3
Spouse of Selene? : THEMANINTHEMOON
4
Spartan serf : HELOT
5
I love, to Cato : AMO
6
Disfigure : MAR
7
Schaffner film: 1968 : PLANETOFTHEAPES
8
Plaster support : LATH
9
Hole in embroidery : EYELET
10
Landing site : AIRSTRIP
11
Magis' guide : STAROFBETHLEHEM
12
___ sapiens : HOMO
13
Epochs : ERAS
18
Bury : INTER
24
Crocus or flag : IRID
25
Storms : RAGES
27
Ursa minor? : CUB
28
Thin pancake : CREPE
29
Circa : ABOUT
32
Actress Janis : ELSIE
33
Hold back : DETER
36
City on the Seine : ROUEN
39
Flecked : STIPPLED
41
Poet Lazarus : EMMA
44
___-fi : SCI
46
Former genus of primates : SIMIA
49
Like hen's teeth : SCARCE
54
Ink for Camus : ENCRE
55
Elevator for Di : LIFT
56
Baseless : IDLE
58
Composer Bartók : BELA
60
Where llamas roam : PERU
61
Baseball's Speaker : TRIS
64
"Norma ___" : RAE
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Fort in Calif. : ORD

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

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