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Jeff Herrington
New York Times, Thursday, February 27, 1992
18-Across : Fixed attitude
Author:
Jeff Herrington
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.25, Missing: { H K P Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 259 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 82, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 22.0
Jeff Herrington has 16 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 5 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 A | 2 B | 3 B | 4 E | 5 S | 6 S | 7 M | 8 A | 9 J | 10 O | 11 R | 12 S | |||
13 S | E | A | L | I | O | 14 N | 15 A | M | U | L | E | T | 16 S |
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17 S | A | L | A | B | L | E | 18 M | I | N | D | S | E | T |
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19 O | N | A | N | 20 D | E | 21 C | O | D | E | 22 T | R | I |
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23 R | I | N | D | 24 D | O | R | E | 25 S | O | O | N |
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26 T | E | C | S | 27 E | L | S | E | 28 T | R | I | G |
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29 S | S | E | 30 I | T | E | M | 31 G | 32 R | E | E | D | Y |
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33 A | S | T | R | O | 34 N | A | U | T | ||||||
35 R | 36 A | 37 S | U | R | E | 38 N | O | M | E | 39 R | 40 O | 41 C |
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42 A | V | I | S | 43 B | A | B | A | 44 D | E | V | A |
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45 M | E | N | T | 46 F | O | U | L | 47 E | T | A | L |
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48 R | N | A | 49 C | A | R | T | E | 50 L | 51 B | O | R | G |
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52 O | U | T | 53 W | A | R | D | 54 S | O | 55 L | A | R | I | A |
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56 D | E | R | A | N | G | E | 57 T | O | A | S | T | E | R |
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58 S | A | R | T | O | R | 59 T | R | E | S | S | Y |
© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,451
Across
1
Monastic superior : ABBESS
7
Big leagues : MAJORS
13
Eared seal : SEALION
15
Talismans : AMULETS
17
Suitable for the block : SALABLE
18
Fixed attitude : MINDSET
19
Judah's second son : ONAN
20
Break a cipher : DECODE
22
Numerical prefix : TRI
23
Tough skin : RIND
24
Painter who illustrated Dante's works : DORE
25
By and by : SOON
26
British gumshoes : TECS
27
In addition : ELSE
28
Very neat : TRIG
29
Mariner's dir. : SSE
30
Newsy note : ITEM
31
Avaricious : GREEDY
33
Michael Collins, e.g. : ASTRONAUT
35
Effacement : RASURE
38
Alaskan city : NOME
39
TV series : ROC
42
Bird, to Brutus : AVIS
43
___ Wawa, Radner role : BABA
44
Hindu spirit : DEVA
45
Suffix with base or abase : MENT
46
Clipping on a gridiron, e.g. : FOUL
47
Cousin of etc. : ETAL
48
Kind of virus : RNA
49
Monopoly : CARTEL
51
Wimbledon superstar: 1976-80 : BORG
52
External : OUTWARD
54
Sunrooms : SOLARIA
56
Craze : DERANGE
57
Glass raiser : TOASTER
58
Suit maker : SARTOR
59
Hirsute : TRESSY
Down
1
Classifies : ASSORTS
2
Skullcaps : BEANIES
3
Equilibrate : BALANCE
4
Large kin of dik-diks : ELANDS
5
Bro, to sis : SIB
6
Auctioneer's word : SOLD
7
Bolivian river : MAMORE
8
Ammonia derivative : AMIDE
9
Havoc of Hollywood : JUNE
10
Stale : OLD
11
Put back : RESTORE
12
Muscle builder : STEROID
14
Tease : NEEDLER
16
Penurious : STINGY
21
Yuri Gagarin, e.g. : COSMONAUT
25
Proofreader's mark : STET
27
Planch add-on : ETTE
30
Leb. neighbor : ISR
31
Character in "Princess Ida" : GAMA
32
Scribe or de Rivoli : RUE
33
Czech. neighbor : AUST
34
Shakespeare's adjective for Brutus : NOBLEST
35
Muzzle loader : RAMROD
36
Modes of access : AVENUES
37
"Rat Pack" leader : SINATRA
39
Comebacks : RETORTS
40
Plant parts enclosing young seeds : OVARIES
41
Alberta city : CALGARY
43
Something to purfle : BORDER
44
Lower in character : DEBASE
46
Henry Wells stopped here : FARGO
49
Slanting motion : CANT
50
Joe Orton play : LOOT
53
Whitman's "The Real ___" : WAR
55
Tutelary deity : LAR
Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.