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Rhonda Kraus
Rhonda Kraus

New York Times, Friday, March 30, 1990

18-Across : Shake

Author:
Rhonda Kraus
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.28, Missing: { F J Q W X Y }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 88, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Rhonda Kraus has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,752
Across
1
Cause a plane to be grounded : REDLINE
8
Social figure : HOSTESS
15
Shade of orange : APRICOT
16
Turk : OTTOMAN
17
Satan, in Siena : DIAVOLO
18
Shake : TREMBLE
19
Thus, in Toledo : ASI
20
Like express trains : NONSTOP
22
Charlotte or Norma : RAE
23
Tue. preceder : MON
24
Martinique, e.g. : ILE
25
Carpenter's tool : ADZ
26
Plant disease : EDEMA
29
Swiss river : AAR
30
___ Manette, Dickens heroine : LUCIE
32
Activity for Casanova : SEDUCING
34
What vecturists collect : TOKENS
35
Dirt-road hazards : RUTS
36
Comedienne Imogene ___ : COCA
37
Tell : RELATE
40
Wealth : TREASURE
44
Roman official : EDILE
45
Cutting tool : DIE
46
Admit : LETIN
47
Style for long hair : BUN
48
Gun the engine : REV
49
W.W. II economic org. : OPA
50
Part of a deck : ACE
51
Museum display : DIORAMA
55
Cruise stop: Abbr. : POC
56
Major Mexican seaport : TAMPICO
58
Featured chorus member : SOLOIST
60
Everlasting : ETERNAL
61
Locate : SITUATE
62
Disavowals : DENIALS
63
Passed : ELAPSED
Down
1
Verdi tenor role : RADAMES
2
Occurrence : EPISODE
3
In a state of exhaustion : DRAINED
4
Actress Ullmann : LIV
5
Image : ICON
6
___ contendere : NOLO
7
Preppies, British style : ETONIANS
8
Higher in temperature : HOTTER
9
Other, in 56 Across : OTRO
10
Short distance : STEP
11
TV's Brokaw : TOM
12
Hug : EMBRACE
13
Crusaders' formidable foe : SALADIN
14
Signs of a cold : SNEEZES
21
Smelting waste : SLAG
27
Orozco painting, e.g. : MURAL
28
Sharp : ACUTE
30
Union chapter : LOCAL
31
Russian edict : UKASE
33
Brooklyn follower : ITE
34
Hallux or dactyl : TOE
36
Fissure in glacial ice : CREVASSE
37
Allowed as a discount : REBATED
38
School : EDUCATE
39
Certain team players : LINEMEN
40
Stadium level : TIER
41
Ideal societies : UTOPIAS
42
Retort quickly : RIPOSTE
43
Put into law : ENACTED
45
Dribbles : DROOLS
51
Actress Merrill : DINA
52
Suffix with class or poet : ICAL
53
Drudgery : MOIL
54
Ski resort in Utah : ALTA
57
Sawlike: Comb. form : PRI
59
SW African river bed : OUP

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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