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Richard Silvestri
Richard Silvestri

New York Times, Monday, May 6, 1991

35-Across : Springsteen's "___ Fire"

Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Grid flow: 39.9
Richard Silvestri has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 84 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,154
Across
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Satisfy : FILL
5
Mets' stadium : SHEA
9
Is suitable : FITS
13
Two-dimensional measurement : AREA
14
Olajuwon, e.g. : CAGER
16
Seem : LOOK
17
Sound from Simba : ROAR
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Went up : AROSE
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Exclusively : ONLY
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Final stage in a chess match : ENDGAME
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Daisy features : PETALS
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Sixth sense : ESP
25
Teasdale and Roosevelt : SARAS
27
Sleight-of-hand artist : PRESTIDIGITATOR
34
Major artery : AORTA
35
Springsteen's "___ Fire" : IMON
36
Spy of a sort : MOLE
37
Vane reading : NNW
38
Encountered : RANINTO
41
Pewter component : TIN
42
Personal: Comb. form : IDIO
44
___ B'rith : BNAI
45
Chaucer pilgrim : REEVE
47
Three-card monte and thimblerig : CONFIDENCEGAMES
50
Nutriments : FOODS
51
___ Cruces, N.M. : LAS
52
Séance figure : MEDIUM
55
Imaginative fiction : FANTASY
59
Idle of comedy : ERIC
60
White-plumed bird : EGRET
63
Salmon ending : ELLA
64
Paddock papa : SIRE
65
Not a soul : NOONE
66
Exude : REEK
67
Oracle : SEER
68
First Lady of the 40's : BESS
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Rather report : NEWS
Down
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Cab customer : FARE
2
Something to pump : IRON
3
Vanguard : LEAD
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Most sizable : LARGEST
5
Trattoria offering : SCAMPI
6
Hound's quarry : HARE
7
Kind of trip : EGO
8
Loser to D.D.E. : AES
9
Debris at sea : FLOTSAM
10
New Rochelle college : IONA
11
Turnpike nuisance : TOLL
12
"The ___ the limit" : SKYS
15
Second edition : REPRINT
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"When You Wish Upon ___" : ASTAR
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Devour : EAT
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Apes : SIMIANS
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Not forming an angle : AGONIC
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Wall Street disaster : PANIC
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Sonata movement : RONDO
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Stu of early TV : ERWIN
30
Made a racket : DINNED
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Indian's protector : TOTEM
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Antipasto morsel : OLIVE
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Descartes et al. : RENES
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Belly : ABDOMEN
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Choir accompaniment : ORGAN
43
Policeman : OFFICER
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Part of E.S.T. : EASTERN
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Marker : IOU
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Puts on cloud nine : ELATES
52
Hodgepodge : MESS
53
Gannon U. site : ERIE
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Dreadful : DIRE
55
Marshes : FENS
56
Opposite of aweather : ALEE
57
Large number : SLEW
58
Chatters : YAKS
61
Sailor : GOB
62
Anonymous Richard : ROE

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