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Arthur W. Palmer
Arthur W. Palmer

New York Times, Friday, February 22, 1991

14-Across : Oculus mundi

Author:
Arthur W. Palmer
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F J Z }, Scrabble score: 311 (avg 1.66)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0
Arthur W. Palmer has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,081
Across
1
Like George Apley : LATE
5
Word with word : CATCH
10
Certain cholesterol containers : EGGS
14
Oculus mundi : OPAL
15
City NW of Orlando : OCALA
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Author Eliav : ARIE
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Supermarket section : DELI
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Eminent : NOTED
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___ voce (orally) : VIVA
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Former supermarket employee? : EXCHEQUER
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Pulitzer Prize poet: 1944 : BENET
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Extinct German ox : URUS
24
Actor Kristofferson : KRIS
26
Crux : NUB
29
Defeats a bidder : SETS
31
Adjective for Cain : ELDEST
35
Exciting : ELECTRIC
37
"My Fair Lady" lyricist : LERNER
38
Town on the Vire : STLO
39
Barret or biggin : CAP
41
"Beetle Bailey" dog : OTTO
42
Spoil : TROPHY
45
Sheridan's Mrs. ___ : MALAPROP
48
Finn's pal : SAWYER
49
Prudish : PRIM
50
N.Y.C.-to-Boston dir. : ENE
51
Acclivity : RISE
53
"Gigi" playwright : LOOS
55
Run a meeting : CHAIR
58
Trial of a grouch? : CRANKCASE
63
Chinese warehouse : HONG
64
"Hec Ramsey" actor : BOONE
65
"___ Named Sue" : ABOY
66
Part of a foot : INCH
67
Unions : BLOCS
68
Shade of yellow : LIME
69
Painter Mondrian : PIET
70
Gives up : CEDES
71
Guazuti or guemal : DEER
Down
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Miner's strike : LODE
2
Peak : APEX
3
Mica of muscovite : TALC
4
A forefather of Samuel : ELIHU
5
Emulate William I of England : CONQUER
6
Kind of guitar : ACOUSTIC
7
Poet Nahum ___ : TATE
8
A Canterbury pilgrim : CLERK
9
Stung: Slang : HAD
10
Rain on the roof? : EAVESDROP
11
Beam : GRIN
12
Elasticity : GIVE
13
Membership : SEAT
21
Once, once : ERST
22
Irascibility : BILE
25
Bro., for one : REL
26
Hornets' homes : NESTS
27
Way out : ULTRA
28
In Hades : BELOW
30
Scaramouch : SCAMP
32
Among, in Amiens : ENTRE
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"Dragonwyck" author : SETON
34
Simile, e.g. : TROPE
36
Make a true facsimile? : COPYRIGHT
40
Vernacular : PARLANCE
43
___ apparent : HEIR
44
Parts of cents. : YRS
46
Elsa, for one : LIONESS
47
Needlessly : AMOK
52
Lycée's kin : ECOLE
54
Cooking direction : SCALD
55
Block part : CHIP
56
Tap dancer Coles : HONI
57
Utter attachment : ANCE
59
Cross : ROOD
60
Nicols hero : ABIE
61
Considerably : SOME
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Witness : EYER
64
Eng. network : BBC

Answer summary:
1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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