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Melvin Kenworthy
Melvin Kenworthy

New York Times, Tuesday, March 31, 1992

Author:
Melvin Kenworthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.14, Missing: { F Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 3, FITB: 11, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 33.0 Grid is asymmetric.
Melvin Kenworthy has 23 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,484
Across
1
Demijohns' cousins : JUGS
5
Oxford, e.g. : SHOE
9
" ... how like a ___ she blushes": Shak. : MAID
13
Wild ox : ANOA
14
Separate : APART
15
Gaelic : ERSE
16
"Go tell ___ the mountain" : ITON
17
One way to quit : COLDTURKEY
19
Calif. city : LOSGATOS
21
Flavoring seeds : ANISES
22
Avid : EAGER
23
Fleece : SKIN
24
Holy : SACRED
26
Artificial eloquence : RHETORIC
30
Alternate : OTHER
31
Shopping center : MART
32
A feast ___ famine : ORA
33
Dies ___ : IRAE
34
Commandment verb : COVET
35
Calendar abbr. : TUES
36
"___ Misérables" : LES
37
Was sorry : RUED
38
English metaphysical poet : DONNE
39
Like some grapes : SEEDLESS
42
Alit : LANDED
43
Adjutant : AIDE
44
Lid : COVER
45
Novelist Laurence ___: 1713-68 : STERNE
48
Sweetheart : TRUELOVE
51
With shoes pointed in? : PIGEONTOED
53
Black, to 38 Across : EBON
54
Writer Leon : URIS
55
Bell sound : CHIME
56
Barn's neighbor : SILO
57
Remainder : REST
58
Conger fisherman : EELER
59
Blizzard material : SNOW
Down
1
Slammer; stir : JAIL
2
Biblical preposition : UNTO
3
Wild ___ (futile endeavor) : GOOSECHASE
4
Tall drink garnished with nutmeg : SANGAREE
5
Animal track : SPOOR
6
Holbrook and March : HALS
7
Fort ___, Calif. base : ORD
8
Comic-strip heroine : ETTAKETT
9
Spanish-bred sheep : MERINO
10
Clumsy vessels : ARKS
11
Words of comprehension : ISEE
12
Former Turkish bigwigs : DEYS
14
Emulated John Lithgow : ACTED
18
Fixed amount : UNIT
20
Ripening agent : AGER
23
Fragment : SHRED
24
Stains : SOILS
25
"A poem lovely as ___" : ATREE
26
Some reviews : RAVES
27
Kind of letter : ROUNDROBIN
28
Goddess of peace : IRENE
29
Examined carefully : CASED
31
Mickey or Minnie : MOUSE
34
Belief : CREDENCE
35
Without modulation : TONELESS
38
Baseball's Winfield : DAVE
40
Biblical anagram for trades : DAREST
41
Floor covering, for short : LINO
42
With more decibels : LOUDER
44
___ de menthe : CREME
45
Inciter : SPUR
46
Whitewall : TIRE
47
Sponsorship : EGIS
48
Labor : TOIL
49
Flight: It. : VOLO
50
Sufficient, to FitzGerald : ENOW
52
King of ___ hill : THE

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

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