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Melvin Kenworthy
Melvin Kenworthy

New York Times, Thursday, March 30, 1989

53-Across : Dress (up)

Author:
Melvin Kenworthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { F P Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 57, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 35.6 Grid has duplicate clues.
Melvin Kenworthy has 23 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,387
Across
1
Project : JUT
4
Kind of corner : AMEN
8
African antelope : ELAND
13
Sale phrase : ASIS
15
Church part : NAVE
16
Hermit : LONER
17
Outlet : VENT
18
Eager : AGOG
19
Madrid mother : MADRE
20
Shakespearean comedy : ASYOULIKEIT
23
Laver or Serling : ROD
24
Bower ___, writer on rhetoric : ALY
25
"Be it ___ humble ... " : EVERSO
27
Musical groups : OCTETS
30
Rap session? : SEANCE
33
"Rebecca at the Well" painter : ROSSITER
36
Zola : EMILE
37
Olla or potiche : JAR
38
Billiard shot : CAROM
40
Pro's partner : CON
41
Tilting : ALIST
44
Friend of Brutus and Cassius : TITINIUS
47
Weather-map line : ISOBAR
49
Danish seaport : ODENSE
50
Wool-covered : LANOSE
53
Dress (up) : TOG
54
"I caught you!" : AHA
56
Subject of a Shakespearean drama : KINGHENRYVI
61
Touch, for one : SENSE
63
Stravinsky : IGOR
64
"Lord, ___ I?": Matt. 26:22 : ISIT
65
More veracious : TRUER
66
Skin: Comb. form : DERM
67
Stet's opposite : DELE
68
Dolts : ASSES
69
Time periods : ERAS
70
Ad ___ (pertinent) : REM
Down
1
Coffee, in slanguage : JAVA
2
Exploits : USES
3
Wee : TINY
4
Kind of psychology : ANALYTIC
5
Manger visitors : MAGI
6
Summon : EVOKE
7
Israeli desert : NEGEV
8
Shade caster : ELMTREE
9
Mauna ___ : LOA
10
"Titus ___," Shakespearean tragedy : ANDRONICUS
11
Roman fiddler : NERO
12
Stowe book about a slave : DRED
14
European weasels : STOATS
21
Rubber trees : ULES
22
Plural ending : IES
26
Snead or Houston : SAM
27
Certain tests : ORALS
28
Shakespearean historical play : CORIOLANUS
29
R.b.i. or e.r.a. : STAT
31
Nearby : CLOSE
32
Poetic contraction : EEN
34
Silkworm : ERI
35
Newspaper section, for short : ROTO
37
___ alai : JAI
39
Certain tests : MIDTERMS
42
Govt. agency : SBA
43
Oil-bearing ships : TANKERS
45
Light gas : NEON
46
Actress Bergman : INGRID
48
Louis XIV, e.g. : ROI
51
Slyly derisive : SNIDE
52
Type of moth : EGGER
54
Star with a tail : ASTA
55
Linen marking : HERS
57
Israeli dance : HORA
58
River of France and Belgium : YSER
59
Base : VILE
60
Rona Barrett notation : ITEM
62
Understand : SEE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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