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Jeanne Wilson
New York Times, Tuesday, March 5, 1991
Author:
Jeanne Wilson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 249 (avg 1.33)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 4, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 22.6
1 A | 2 P | 3 E | 4 D | | 5 M | 6 A | 7 S | 8 S | 9 A | | 10 O | 11 T | 12 T | 13 O |
14 L | I | A | R | | 15 O | S | K | A | R | | 16 S | H | O | D |
17 I | T | S | A | | 18 M | I | A | M | I | | 19 A | R | N | O |
20 T | H | E | G | 21 R | E | A | T | E | S | 22 T | | 23 E | A | R |
| | | | 24 A | N | N | E | | 25 E | A | 26 S | E | L | S |
27 E | 28 R | 29 R | 30 A | N | T | | | 31 I | S | L | E | | | |
32 L | E | A | N | | 33 U | 34 P | 35 O | N | | 36 I | M | 37 A | 38 G | 39 E |
40 B | A | R | N | 41 U | M | A | N | D | 42 B | A | I | L | E | Y |
43 A | D | E | E | R | | 44 S | T | O | A | | 45 T | A | R | E |
| | | 46 A | G | 47 A | S | | | 48 R | 49 E | E | S | E | S |
50 V | 51 A | 52 R | L | E | T | | 53 A | 54 V | O | N | | | | |
55 A | R | I | | 56 S | H | 57 O | W | O | N | E | 58 A | 59 R | 60 T | 61 H |
62 N | I | N | 63 E | | 64 E | L | A | T | E | | 65 C | A | R | A |
66 N | A | G | S | | 67 N | A | R | E | S | | 68 I | T | E | R |
69 A | S | S | T | | 70 A | V | E | R | S | | 71 D | E | E | P |
© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,092
Across
1
5
Italian marble city :
MASSA10
Preminger or Kruger :
OTTO14
15
16
17
18
Golden Girls' town :
MIAMI19
20
With 56 Across, P. T.'s description of his circus :
THEGREATEST23
24
25
27
31
32
33
"Once ___ a time ... " :
UPON36
40
43
"Doe, ___, a female ... " :
ADEER44
Where Socrates strolled :
STOA45
46
Viziers' superiors :
AGAS48
Family of poet Lizette :
REESES50
Knave, to Shakespeare :
VARLET53
Shakespeare's town :
AVON55
56
62
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
Down
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
With 52 Down, circus cynosures :
THREE12
Of sounds of music :
TONAL13
21
22
Actress Shire of "Rocky" :
TALIA26
27
" ... ere I saw___" :
ELBA28
29
30
31
34
35
37
38
Actor in "Pretty Woman" :
GERE39
"___ of Laura Mars" :
EYES41
42
47
Greek goddess of wisdom :
ATHENA49
50
Letter-turner White :
VANNA51
Costa Rican statesman :
ARIAS52
53
54
Member of the electorate :
VOTER57
Big name in Norway :
OLAV58
59
60
61
Support for a lamp shade :
HARP63
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.
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