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Christy Ridley
Christy Ridley

New York Times, Saturday, March 31, 1990

Author:
Christy Ridley
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J X }, Scrabble score: 312 (avg 1.63)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 22.3
Christy Ridley has 54 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,753
Across
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Food fish : BASS
5
Exposed : BARED
10
Trade : SWAP
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Bird of Australia : EMEU
15
Eiffel Tower level : ETAGE
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Famous soccer player : PELE
17
City-hall timekeepers : TOWNCLOCKS
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Weather forecast : RAIN
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Concurrences : SYNDROMES
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0500 and 1700 : FIVES
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Hawaiian honeycreeper : IIWI
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Donegal Bay feeder : ERNE
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What inspired Watt : STEAM
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Metric-system unit : CENTIGRAM
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C. Marshall's "A Man ___ Peter" : CALLED
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Chickadee's home : NEST
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Youth org. : BSA
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Central Iowa city : AMES
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District's administrative officer : REEVE
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Fine spray : MIST
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Clerical title: Abbr. : REV
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Writer Earl ___ Biggers : DERR
42
Basis for some watches : QUARTZ
44
Top watch's quality : PRECISION
47
"___ to bed": Pepys : ANDSO
48
Certain pigeons : NUNS
49
Teen-ager's problem : ACNE
51
His last album was "I Got a Name" : CROCE
53
Old time indicator : HOURGLASS
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Sickle; scythe : HOOK
59
Six fifty : TENTOSEVEN
60
"Money ___ object" : ISNO
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"Our times ___ his hand": Browning : AREIN
62
Short-billed rail : SORA
63
A Huxtable : THEO
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Mount ___ (Adirondacks' top peak) : MARCY
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Lucre : SWAG
Down
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Wagers : BETS
2
China-coast island : AMOY
3
Stitched : SEWN
4
Old daytime markers : SUNDIALS
5
Under : BELOW
6
Kind of energy : ATOMIC
7
Tear : RACE
8
Family of "Circe" composer : EGKS
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___ Plaines, Chicago suburb : DES
10
"___ ahead; fall back" : SPRING
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Old World finch : WEAVERBIRD
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"It's a Sin to Tell ___" : ALIE
13
Writes : PENS
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It doesn't pay : CRIME
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Component of glass : FRIT
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And the following: Abbr. : ETSEQ
24
Line of cliffs : SCARP
25
Less feral : TAMER
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11:01 : ELEVENOONE
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Period of time in Spain : ENERO
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Ida. neighbor : NEV
30
Vice prins., e.g. : ASSTS
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Unleavened bread : MATZO
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Dolly Varden is one : DRESS
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Lincoln's "Cap'n ___" : ERI
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Like a lioness : MANELESS
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Eat in style : DINE
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Rhinoceros beetles : UANGS
45
Beaked timekeeper : CUCKOO
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Marine, in Brighton : NAUTIC
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Chum : CRONY
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Memo : CHIT
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___ ha-Shanah : ROSH
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Wife and sister of Zeus : HERA
54
Corker : ONER
55
Assert : AVOW
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Evening, in Roma : SERA
57
Angler's headache : SNAG
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Beret's cousin : TAM

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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