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Stanley B. Whitten
Stanley B. Whitten

New York Times, Thursday, April 8, 1993

24-Down : Elicits

Author:
Stanley B. Whitten
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Stanley B. Whitten has 9 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 9 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,857
Across
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Discovery : FIND
5
L.A. weather word : SMOG
9
Indian title of distinction : NAWAB
14
Consumer : USER
15
Assistant : AIDE
16
Playing marble : AGATE
17
Chinese revolutionary leader : SUNYATSEN
19
Mushroom : MOREL
20
Variety : SPECIES
21
Caspian Sea feeder : URAL
22
They loop the Loop : ELS
23
Narrators : RECITERS
27
Senses : FEELS
30
V-shaped outwork : RAVELIN
31
"___ in Calico" : AGAL
32
Hacienda dweller : SENORA
33
Type of dauber or hen : MUD
36
Laced inner garments : CORSETS
38
Snooper's opening : KEYHOLE
40
Superlative suffix : EST
41
Watered silks or rayons : MOIRES
43
A Chaplin : OONA
44
Afros and bouffants : HAIRDOS
46
Part of LEM : LUNAR
47
"In a beautiful ___ boat": Lear : PEAGREEN
49
Jackson and Derek : BOS
50
Singer-composer Paul ___ : ANKA
51
Judge-made legislation : CASELAW
55
Military groups : UNITS
57
Famed Green Bay Packer : BARTSTARR
59
Supple : LITHE
60
Leave out : OMIT
61
Earthen pot : OLLA
62
"___ Is Born" : ASTAR
63
Infant : BABY
64
Lowdown : POOP
Down
1
Ado : FUSS
2
"The jig ___!" : ISUP
3
Hawaiian goose : NENE
4
Battery parts : DRYCELLS
5
Gorges : SATES
6
Be unsuccessful : MISS
7
Parabasis : ODE
8
Army V.I.P. : GEN
9
Ho Chi Minh's country, informally : NAM
10
Rabbitlike rodent of S.A. : AGOUTI
11
Houston Oiler superstar : WARRENMOON
12
"Too foolish for ___ ... ": Coleridge : ATEAR
13
With ___ on (eagerly) : BELLS
18
Suffers : AILS
23
Vied with Carl Lewis : RAN
24
Elicits : EVOKES
25
First-discovered asteroid : CERES
26
"As ___ Dying": Faulkner : ILAY
27
Countenance : FACE
28
Conceits : EGOS
29
Singer from S.C. : EARTHAKITT
30
Dwell : RESIDE
32
Emporium : STORE
34
Attachment to a ginglymus : ULNA
35
Expensive : DEAR
37
Arabian prince : EMIR
39
Whence to shout it : HOUSETOP
42
Ely or Howard : RON
45
First name in detective fiction : AGATHA
46
Deprivation : LOSS
47
Actress Prentiss : PAULA
48
Seat of County Clare : ENNIS
49
Daft : BATTY
51
Slatted bin : CRIB
52
"Namouna" composer : LALO
53
Woody's boy : ARLO
54
Envelop : WRAP
56
Sun. talk : SER
57
Fishing-line float : BOB
58
"I ___ Camera" : AMA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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