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Rhonda Kraus
New York Times, Saturday, April 28, 1990
Author:
Rhonda Kraus
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { F J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 33.7
Rhonda Kraus has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 B | 2 A | 3 L | 4 M | 5 T | 6 E | 7 S | 8 T | 9 A | 10 P | 11 S | 12 E | |||
13 E | N | U | M | 14 E | R | A | T | E | 15 R | I | T | A | 16 S |
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17 A | N | G | E | L | I | C | A | L | 18 S | L | A | S | H |
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19 T | E | E | 20 L | A | H | R | 21 C | H | E | R | T | Y |
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22 D | E | L | 23 S | 24 I | R | I | U | S | ||||||
25 H | 26 U | 27 M | O | R | S | 28 A | D | E | L | P | H | 29 I | ||
30 E | B | O | N | Y | 31 N | O | T | E | 32 E | D | 33 O |
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34 L | O | V | E | 35 A | 36 D | D | L | E | 37 S | L | I | P |
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38 M | A | I | 39 E | R | O | S | 40 A | L | L | O | T |
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41 T | E | 42 M | P | E | S | T | 43 C | R | U | S | T | S |
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44 S | E | I | N | E | R | 45 A | R | M | ||||||
46 D | 47 E | T | E | C | T | 48 I | 49 O | N | E | 50 I | 51 O | 52 U |
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53 E | R | A | S | E | 54 U | P | R | I | S | 55 I | N | G | S |
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56 S | I | R | E | N | 57 R | E | E | N | T | E | R | E | D |
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58 E | S | S | E | 59 I | S | L | E | 60 R | E | E | L |
© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,781
Across
1
Soothing lotion : BALM
5
Probe : TEST
9
Church recess : APSE
13
Count : ENUMERATE
15
Coolidge and Tushingham : RITAS
17
Possessing heavenly qualities : ANGELICAL
18
Cut drastically : SLASH
19
Strange purchase : TEE
20
City in Germany : LAHR
21
Containing a flintlike rock : CHERTY
22
Resti ___ cibo (Italian leftovers) : DEL
23
Star in the Greater Dog : SIRIUS
25
Moods : HUMORS
28
Long Island college : ADELPHI
30
Keyboard wood : EBONY
31
Memo : NOTE
32
Conductor de Waart : EDO
34
Zero, to Cash : LOVE
35
Confuse : ADDLE
37
Knitting stitch : SLIP
38
Actress Zetterling : MAI
39
Antony's friend in Egypt : EROS
40
Apportion : ALLOT
41
Shakespeare's "The ___" : TEMPEST
43
Parts of pandowdies : CRUSTS
44
Fishing boat : SEINER
45
Fortify : ARM
46
Do some sleuthing : DETECT
48
Actress Skye : IONE
50
Chit : IOU
53
Undo : ERASE
54
Events in eastern Europe: 1989 : UPRISINGS
56
Femme fatale : SIREN
57
Came back in : REENTERED
58
Chimney on das Haus : ESSE
59
Key's cousin : ISLE
60
Titubate : REEL
Down
1
Bushed : BEAT
2
Author Tyler : ANNE
3
Winter Olympics event : LUGE
4
Mrs., in Marseille : MME
5
Job suffered many of these : TRIALS
6
Every one : EACH
7
A E F newspaper, in France: 1918 : STARSANDSTRIPES
8
Hill, to an Arab : TEL
9
Abstract Expressionist Gorky : ARSHILE
10
Amass : PILEUP
11
Projectiles illuminating enemy positions : STARSHELLS
12
___ Ham, London suburb : EAST
14
First name of Nikki Porter's boss : ELLERY
16
Timid : SHY
21
Island of the Minotaur : CRETE
22
Over : DONE
24
Adored one : IDOL
25
Ship's wheel : HELM
26
Tirpitz's menace: 1915 : UBOAT
27
Shearer and Woolley, once : MOVIESTARS
29
___ box (TV) : IDIOT
33
Chooses : OPTS
35
Common contraction : ARENT
36
Medicine measure : DOSE
37
Rundown area : SLUM
39
Flaccid : EPICENE
40
Stop : ARREST
42
Former U.S. Attorney General and family : MEESES
43
Hershfield's "Rubber, the ___ Cop" : CANINE
46
Ecole ___ Beaux-Arts : DES
47
Fourth of HOMES : ERIE
49
Pitcher Hershiser : OREL
50
Regarding : INRE
51
Gula : OGEE
52
Frances Perkins's D C sphere : USDL
54
Israeli psychic Geller : URI
55
Comparative ending : IER
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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