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Melvin Kenworthy
Melvin Kenworthy

New York Times, Monday, March 9, 1992

37-Down : Muslim prince

Author:
Melvin Kenworthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.64, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 23.5 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Melvin Kenworthy has 23 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,462
Across
1
Shake ___ (hurry) : ALEG
5
Unwanted fat : FLAB
9
Rope fiber : BAST
13
Chopper part : ROTOR
15
Precept : RULE
16
Eight, to Cato : OCTO
17
Single : ALONE
18
Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
19
Persian poet : OMAR
20
Dhaka is its capital : BANGLADESH
22
Plain; bare : MERE
23
Greek mil. group of W.W. II : ELAS
24
Discharge : EGEST
26
Entices : TEMPTS
30
Winged : ALAR
31
Porpourri : OLIO
32
Designer Cassini : OLEG
35
Stared : GAPED
39
Childhood malady : MUMPS
41
Bern's river : AAR
42
Wind: Comb. form : ANEMO
43
Put in office : ELECT
44
Wild try : STAB
46
Forbidding : GRIM
47
Pledge : OATH
49
State with confidence : ASSURE
51
"Ars ___ ... " : LONGA
53
Ignoble : BASE
55
Painter Chagall : MARC
56
Does a belly flop, aeronautically : CRASHLANDS
62
Ireland, to Gaels : EIRE
63
Iodine source : KELP
64
Soprano Lucine ___ : AMARA
65
Movement : STIR
66
___ majesté : LESE
67
Uses a strop : HONES
68
Method: Abbr. : SYST
69
Dash : ELAN
70
Adages : SAWS
Down
1
Fine horse : ARAB
2
"Damn Yankees" girl : LOLA
3
School on the Thames : ETON
4
Signal bell : GONG
5
___ Utley, author of "The China Story" : FREDA
6
Artificial flies : LURES
7
Dear me! : ALAS
8
Church for sailors : BETHEL
9
Backfires : BOOMERANGS
10
Tops : ACMES
11
Commence : START
12
Rushed around : TORE
14
Lease again : RELET
21
Too : ALSO
25
Dippy or dotty : GAGA
26
Heavy book : TOME
27
Hebrew month : ELUL
28
Aper : MIME
29
Musical event in Boston : POPCONCERT
30
Taj Mahal's site : AGRA
33
Eye or whip follower : LASH
34
Dine : EAT
36
Bolivian neighbor : PERU
37
Muslim prince : EMIR
38
Cupola : DOME
40
Male party : STAG
45
Hit hard : BASH
48
Angler's gear : TACKLE
50
Psalms anagram for heals : SELAH
51
Nonclerical group : LAITY
52
Gold lace for upholstery : ORRIS
53
Raft material : BALSA
54
Ski mecca : ASPEN
55
G.I. food : MESS
57
Rod's partner : REEL
58
Disney's inventive mouse : AMOS
59
British nursemaid : NANA
60
Sketched : DREW
61
Back talk : SASS

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

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