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Don Groat
Don Groat

New York Times, Tuesday, March 7, 1989

10-Down : River in Ecuador

Author:
Don Groat
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { J K Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 259 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 11, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Don Groat has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,364
Across
1
Embrace : CLASP
6
Ballerina's ___ de chat : PAS
9
Biblical patriarch : ENOS
13
Kind of bear : POLAR
14
Convene : MEET
15
Singer Janet Baker's title : DAME
16
Manila hemp : ABACA
17
"A Loss of Roses" playwright : INGE
18
___ arms (aroused) : UPIN
19
Author of "The Talisman" : SIRWALTERSCOTT
22
Football position : END
23
Square column : ANTA
24
Copied : APED
27
Legal claim : LIEN
30
Country shaped like a boot : ITALY
34
Atlas unit : MAP
35
Delbert ___, film director : MANN
36
Place for bulldogging : RODEO
37
"Reading ___": Herbert Spencer : ISSEEINGBYPROXY
41
Lee's opposite : STOSS
42
Natives of: Suffix : ITES
43
Muni or Grande : RIO
44
A Margaret Mead subject : SAMOA
45
Burden : ONUS
46
England's Good Queen ___ : BESS
47
Construction piece : TBAR
49
Rower : OAR
51
"The Importance ___": Oscar Wilde : OFBEINGEARNEST
58
Limerick creator : LEAR
59
Mend socks : DARN
60
Consumed : EATEN
62
Spanish surrealist : DALI
63
Sicilian resort : ENNA
64
Pebble : STONE
65
Writer Ambler : ERIC
66
Opposite of NNW : SSE
67
Scottish chief : THANE
Down
1
Accountant, for short : CPA
2
Tennis strokes : LOBS
3
Soviet range : ALAI
4
Inviolate : SACRED
5
Dining delicacy : PRAWN
6
Confined : PENT
7
Sea for Odysseus : AEGEAN
8
Ship's rear : STERN
9
Mark Hopkins was one : EDUCATOR
10
River in Ecuador : NAPO
11
Leave out : OMIT
12
Dispatched : SENT
14
Wire measure : MIL
20
Loser to Dwight : ADLAI
21
Line of descent : STIRPS
24
Wrongly : AMISS
25
Ristorante fare : PASTA
26
___ Downs : EPSOM
28
Traveler's stopover : INN
29
Locomotive operator: Abbr. : ENGIN
31
Worship : ADORE
32
Vocabulary of a language : LEXIS
33
Stringed toys : YOYOS
35
Minn. range : MESABI
38
Recondite : ESOTERIC
39
Heat meas. : BTU
40
"Answer ___ no" : YESOR
45
These have stops : ORGANS
46
Respiration : BREATH
48
Aconcagua is here : ANDES
50
"___ of robins ... " : ANEST
51
Ye ___ tea shoppe : OLDE
52
Dread : FEAR
53
Island east of Java : BALI
54
Lake in Ireland : ERNE
55
Memorabilia : ANA
56
Athenian portico : STOA
57
Sen. Gore's state : TENN
61
Barbara Bush, ___ Pierce : NEE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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