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Rash
Rash

New York Times, Wednesday, March 18, 1987

Author:
Rash
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 301 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 43.0 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry. Grid has duplicate clues.
Rash has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,644
Across
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Very small antelope : SUNI
5
Times of prosperity : BOOMS
10
Secondhand : USED
14
Exposed : OPEN
15
Incus : ANVIL
16
Wheel hub : NAVE
17
Greeting : HOWDOYOUDO
19
Prattle : BLAB
20
Tricky football kick : ONSIDE
21
Reckon wrong : MISCOUNT
23
___ acre (churchyard) : GODS
25
Sentry's command : HALT
26
Sealing disk : WAFER
29
A.M.A. members : MDS
32
Die mark : STAMP
35
Actor Bates : ALAN
36
Plane figure : CIRCLE
38
Shoelace : TIE
39
Love's antithesis : HATE
40
Hilo hi : ALOHA
41
Keglers' targets : PINS
42
Fragment for Fido : ORT
43
Get a promotion : STEPUP
44
Pop-music type : ROCK
45
"The ___ Man," 1971 Heston film : OMEGA
47
Lusitania's last gasp : SOS
48
Sol and kip : MONEY
49
Coal-mine gas : DAMP
51
Aussie vagrant's bundle : SWAG
53
Puritan Mather : INCREASE
57
Pester : HARASS
61
Male guinea pig : BOAR
62
Out-of-doors greeting : WELCOMEMAT
64
Run but go nowhere : IDLE
65
Snoot-y : NASAL
66
Evening, in Roma : SERA
67
Skillful : DEFT
68
Like old jokes : STALE
69
Run producer : SNAG
Down
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N.Y.C. area south of Houston : SOHO
2
"___ the Roof," 1962 song : UPON
3
Intelligence : NEWS
4
Autochthon : INDIGENE
5
Howled : BAYED
6
Yoko : ONO
7
Gamete : OVUM
8
South of France : MIDI
9
Watery snow : SLOSH
10
Withdraw a lock : UNBOLT
11
Greeting : SALUTATION
12
John, in Wales : EVAN
13
This may cause vigorish : DEBT
18
Frangipani, e.g. : ODOR
22
Twenty-four cans of beer : CASE
24
Pop song since 1917 : SMILES
26
Winged elm : WAHOO
27
Strike with fear : ALARM
28
Entree greeting a prodigal son : FATTEDCALF
30
Walter ___, Red Sox All-Star: 1950 : DROPO
31
Ski downhill : SCHUSS
33
Kind of pie : MINCE
34
Vexatious : PESKY
36
Fraidy-___ : CAT
37
Race circuit : LAP
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Advance : PROGRESS
43
Equal, in a way : SAME
46
Loft : GARRET
48
Address to a queen : MAAM
50
Some chessmen : PAWNS
52
Integral : WHOLE
53
Footnote wd. : IBID
54
Knob : NODE
55
Box or aisle follower : SEAT
56
Lohengrin's lady : ELSA
58
TV sitcom : AMEN
59
A Roosevelt : SARA
60
Hind's mate : STAG
63
Designer Klein, to friends : CAL

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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