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Walter Covell
Walter Covell

New York Times, Thursday, March 12, 1992

45-Down : Parlors: Abbr.

Author:
Walter Covell
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { Q W X }, Scrabble score: 305 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 39.6
Walter Covell has 33 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,465
Across
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European shrub : FURZE
6
Goat's-hair fabric : ABA
9
Kinds : SORTS
14
Cautionary color : AMBER
15
Sigma follower : TAU
16
Ward off : AVERT
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Book's back : SPINE
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Chang's sidekick : ENG
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Speech disorder: Comb. form : LALIA
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Married state : CONJUGALITY
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Makes foolish : BESOTS
27
Workplace-safety agcy. : OSHA
28
Turn right : GEE
29
Scholarly : ERUDITE
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Flat-top hat : TAM
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Leb. neighbor : ISR
33
Polio fighter : SABIN
34
Futile : VAIN
36
Lobster traps : POTS
37
Giant battleships, e.g. : JUGGERNAUTS
40
Weaver's twisted silk thread : TRAM
42
Story starter : ONCE
43
Oz books illustrator : NEILL
46
Campers' ___ room : REC
47
Information unit : BIT
48
More intelligent : SMARTER
50
Unfold, in verse : OPE
51
___ probandi : ONUS
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Seine city : TROYES
54
Latin student's task : CONJUGATING
57
Ending for poet or critic : ASTER
58
Mazel ___ : TOV
59
Aturkic language : UZBEK
64
Lunar trenches : RILLS
65
Agency concerned with ecol. : EPA
66
Hair-raising : EERIE
67
Sundial gnomon : STYLE
68
Ursine birthplace : DEN
69
Darling : DEARY
Down
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Tones above mis : FAS
2
Diamond off. : UMP
3
Stat for Ruth : RBI
4
Buddhism branch : ZEN
5
Constructor's activity : ERECTING
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Amenhotep IV's deity : ATEN
7
Type of clock : BANJO
8
Two early saints : AUGUSTINES
9
Low bow : SALAAM
10
Football shape : OVAL
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Devoutness : RELIGIOSITY
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Most hackneyed : TRITEST
13
Perseverant ones : STAYERS
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East, in Bonn : OST
22
Accra's land : GHANA
23
Egyptian god of music : BES
24
Epoch : ERA
25
In an underlying way : SUBJACENTLY
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Hatred : ODIUM
30
Resulted : EVENTUATED
35
Catenary : ARC
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Wing: Comb. form : PTERO
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"___ My Way" : GOING
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Admitted : UNARGUED
40
Surgical instruments : TROCARS
41
Put back : REPOSIT
44
Actress Michele : LEE
45
Parlors: Abbr. : LRS
47
French stock exchange : BOURSE
49
Range pt. : MTN
52
Mining excavation : STOPE
55
Become definite : JELL
56
Netman Lendl : IVAN
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Tappan or Zuider : ZEE
61
Bikini part : BRA
62
Healer at Valhalla : EIR
63
Essential : KEY

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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