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Kevin Boyle
Kevin Boyle

New York Times, Saturday, March 13, 1993

Author:
Kevin Boyle
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F H J K W Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.33)
Open Squares: 92, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 18.9
Kevin Boyle has 32 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,831
Across
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Clean slate : TABULARASA
11
"___ Troll": Heine : ATTA
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Added details : ELABORATED
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Turns right : GEES
17
Things needed : DESIDERATA
18
City NW of Nîmes : ALES
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"___ Not Unusual," T. Jones hit : ITS
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Immobile : INERT
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Pooh's creator : MILNE
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Some Shoshones : UTES
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Astronomical Altar : ARA
25
Horse blankets : MANTAS
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Poetic measure : METER
28
Roentgenize : XRAY
30
Meese et al.: Abbr. : AGS
31
Casey's org. : CIA
33
Still : YET
34
Away from the wind : ALEE
35
Acting, e.g. : ONSTAGE
39
Makes a bid : TENDERS
41
Conks : BOPS
42
___ Carinae (a star and its nebula) : ETA
44
Bishop's office : SEE
45
Batman and Robin, e.g. : DUO
46
At another time : ANON
47
Kind of fool : APRIL
51
A diacritic : UMLAUT
53
Pinna : EAR
56
Poet-playwright Nahum ___ : TATE
57
Checks : REINS
58
Of a royal court : AULIC
60
Forefront : VAN
61
Logogriph: Abbr. : ANAG
62
Soil-management expert : AGRONOMIST
64
Actor Jacques ___ : TATI
65
Inactivity : QUIESCENCE
66
Robt. ___ : ELEE
67
Somatic receptor : SENSEORGAN
Down
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Monotony : TEDIUM
2
Doorway jamb : ALETTE
3
Outcrop, in mining : BASSET
4
___ sunt (poetic motif) : UBI
5
Town SE of Milano : LODI
6
Field of endeavor : ARENA
7
More scarce : RARER
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Freedom from anxiety : ATARAXY
9
Paver's pitcher : SETT
10
Nabokov novel : ADA
11
On the other hand : AGAIN
12
Indicator of a rudder's position : TELLTALE
13
Mutant Ninja Turtle, e.g. : TEENAGER
14
Sizes up : ASSESSES
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Prime of life : MAY
23
Conventicle participants : SECTS
25
Triumphs for Fischer : MATES
27
River inlet : RIA
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Macerate : RET
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Philby, for one : AGENT
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Proficient : ADEPT
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Shameless or stubborn : OBDURATE
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Having real existence : NOUMENAL
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Plunder : SPOLIATE
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D.D.E.'s command : ETO
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Pedagogic org. : NEA
43
Thiamine : ANEURIN
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Central Eur. republic : AUS
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Delirious : RAVING
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Lake source of the Mississippi : ITASCA
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Meager : LENTEN
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Actress Dickinson : ANGIE
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Agalloch : ALOES
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Dentist's request : RINSE
58
Fit of fever : AGUE
59
Nicaraguan river : COCO
62
Test-result ratios: Abbr. : AQS
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Thigh: Comb. form : MER

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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