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William Canine
William Canine

New York Times, Friday, June 26, 1987

39-Across : Greek letter

Author:
William Canine
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F }, Scrabble score: 318 (avg 1.70)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 33.3
William Canine has 65 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,744
Across
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Center for connoisseurs : MECCA
6
About : SOME
10
Side dish : SLAW
14
Tocsin : ALARM
15
Surrender : QUIT
16
The Hindu Cupid : KAMA
17
Actress-singer Blakley : RONEE
18
Where to find Polaris : URSAMINOR
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Site of airport rescue: 1976 : ENTEBBE
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Long and thin : SPIDERY
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Talkative pet : PARAKEET
25
Daring : RACY
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___ out (made do) : EKED
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Belgian Congo today : ZAIRE
34
Textile screw pine : ARA
35
Hawthorne's "The ___ Champion" : GREY
36
"Burr" author : VIDAL
37
___ Early, C.S.A. general : JUBAL
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Greek letter : RHO
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Siege site: 1836 : ALAMO
42
Primitive computers : ABACI
43
Pained cry : OUCH
45
Bound : HOP
46
Drags in : HALES
47
Type of clarinet : ALTO
48
Demitint, e.g. : TONE
49
Articles made of lacquered metal : TOLEWARE
52
Foot for Swinburne : ANAPEST
56
Southwestern salamander : AXOLOTL
60
Tennessean : VOLUNTEER
62
"Woolf" man : ALBEE
63
Muscat's state : OMAN
64
Herbaceous plant : IRID
65
Origins : SEEDS
66
Dame Rebecca : WEST
67
Miller and Blyth : ANNS
68
Rendezvous : TRYST
Down
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Plain on the moon : MARE
2
College in N.C. : ELON
3
Jargon : CANT
4
Like a Poe tale : CREEPY
5
A rhizopod : AMEBA
6
Close call : SQUEAKER
7
Maugham's "___ Betters" : OUR
8
Fell short : MISSED
9
A day's march : ETAPE
10
Sideslip : SKID
11
Alley : LANE
12
"___ tra nemici," Ariosti opera : AMOR
13
Circumspect : WARY
19
Bas or bar follower : MITZVAH
21
Title for Harris characters : BRER
24
Slot for a cotter : KEYHOLE
25
Indian prince : RAJAH
26
Island off Venezuela : ARUBA
27
Group of plotters : CABAL
30
Trouble : AIL
31
Pend Oreille Lake site : IDAHO
32
Magsaysay of the Philippines : RAMON
33
Slip off in the night : ELOPE
35
Flash : GLISTEN
38
Becker specialty : ACE
40
Away from the center : OUTWARDS
44
Cajole : COAX
47
Occurring by turns, old style : ALTERN
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Vote counter : TELLER
50
Rome's ancient port : OSTIA
51
Pan : ROAST
52
Swear : AVOW
53
Seward Peninsula city : NOME
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"Oh no!" : ALAS
55
Fourth-down play : PUNT
57
Submit : OBEY
58
Knight and Weems : TEDS
59
For fear that : LEST
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Strauss's "___ Heldenleben" : EIN

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

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