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Jonathan J. Towle
Jonathan J. Towle

New York Times, Saturday, July 13, 1991

Author:
Jonathan J. Towle
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { F J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 257 (avg 1.34)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 20.4 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Jonathan J. Towle has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,222
Across
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Track activity : RACING
7
"Where is the ___ cook?": Shak. : RASCAL
13
Escapee : ELUDER
14
Juan's language : ESPANOL
16
Dressage maneuver : PESADE
17
Empresses at the Winter Palace : TSARINAS
19
Suitable : APT
20
___ decisis (judicial doctrine) : STARE
22
Emulated Epimenides : SLEPT
23
Hope, to Cato : SPES
25
Bitter : ACERB
27
"___ Perpetua," Idaho motto : ESTO
28
Pentateuch : TORAH
30
___ National Park, in Poland : TATRA
32
Kind of can or man : TIN
33
Actress Zetterling : MAI
35
Basketball, for example : TEAMGAME
37
Name : APPOINT
41
Circulated hearsay : RUMORED
42
Certain measurements : BREADTHS
44
Rosinante, for one : NAG
45
Fixed : SET
46
Glacial ridge : ARETE
48
Standards : NORMS
52
Not new : USED
54
___ orange (bowwood) : OSAGE
56
Place for heddies : LOOM
57
Showed a film again : RERAN
59
Inge's "___ of Roses" : ALOSS
61
"Pink Marsh" author : ADE
62
Balkan region : DALMATIA
64
Horse mackerel : SAUREL
66
Air-show action : LOOPING
67
Remark or comment : ADVERT
68
Attacks : ONSETS
69
Longs : YEARNS
Down
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Feast : REPAST
2
City in NW Syria : ALEPPO
3
Foe of Sitting Bull : CUSTER
4
Sacred mount : IDA
5
Sparks and Rorem : NEDS
6
Actress Scacchi : GRETA
7
Sunset ceremony at a military post : RETREAT
8
Claimant : ASSERTER
9
Hydromassage facility : SPA
10
The ___ (rock group) : CARS
11
Like an old woman : ANILE
12
Figure in a flag at Austin : LONESTAR
15
Indy measurement : LAPTIME
18
Affected by tee many martoonis : STONED
21
Mann, for one : ACT
24
Where R.L.S. is buried : SAMOA
26
Von ___, rocket scientist : BRAUN
29
Indian of British Columbia : HAIDA
31
Mideast capital : AMMAN
34
Musical vamp : INTRO
36
He wrote "The Overcoat" : GOGOL
37
Ludicrous : ABSURD
38
Pack at the factory : PRESEAL
39
Name for an 1819 massacre in Manchester, Eng. : PETERLOO
40
Charteris hero : THESAINT
43
Some W.W. II prison camps : STALAGS
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Kind of maniac : EGO
49
Noisy oil well : ROARER
50
Neoteric : MODERN
51
Refines : SMELTS
53
Famous friend : DAMON
55
Bacon piece : ESSAY
58
Plush surfaces : NAPS
60
Nigerian singer : SADE
63
Foulard : TIE
65
Inst. at Charlottesville : UVA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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