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Stanley Glass
New York Times, Wednesday, July 25, 1990
Author:
Stanley Glass
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 17.4
1 S | 2 A | 3 M | 4 P | | 5 D | 6 D | 7 A | 8 Y | | | 9 S | 10 P | 11 E | 12 E |
13 T | R | E | E | | 14 E | R | I | E | | 15 A | U | L | I | S |
16 A | C | A | D | | 17 L | U | S | T | | 18 L | I | A | N | E |
19 L | A | N | D | 20 P | H | I | L | | 21 P | I | T | Y | | |
22 A | D | E | L | A | I | D | E | | 23 E | V | O | K | 24 E | 25 D |
26 G | E | R | E | N | | | | 27 P | E | E | R | A | G | E |
| | | 28 R | E | 29 P | 30 O | 31 S | E | D | | 32 S | T | E | N |
33 R | 34 A | 35 P | | 36 L | I | K | E | L | E | 37 E | | 38 E | R | G |
39 O | B | I | 40 T | | 41 S | I | T | T | E | R | 42 S | | | |
43 S | E | C | R | 44 E | T | E | | | | 45 I | N | 46 F | 47 R | 48 A |
49 A | L | K | A | L | I | | 50 P | 51 R | 52 O | C | U | R | E | D |
| | 53 N | I | E | L | | 54 H | I | G | H | G | E | N | E |
55 S | 56 T | I | N | G | | 57 B | A | L | D | | 58 G | E | T | S |
59 L | A | C | E | Y | | 60 I | S | L | E | | 61 E | T | A | T |
62 Y | O | K | E | | | 63 T | E | E | N | | 64 R | O | L | E |
© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,869
Across
1
5
9
13
14
15
"Iphigenia at ___": Euripides :
AULIS16
17
18
19
Sign up talk-show host at town dump? :
LANDPHIL21
Sympathetic sorrow :
PITY22
23
26
27
28
32
33
36
Apt to be fond of rebel leader? :
LIKELEE38
39
Newspaper notice, for short :
OBIT41
Pinch-hitters for parents :
SITTERS43
45
49
50
53
Marechal ___, yellow climbing rose :
NIEL54
Exhilarated dancer in health routine? :
HIGHGENE55
Crime fighter's tactic :
STING57
Mussorgsky's mountain? :
BALD58
59
Cagney's partner on TV :
LACEY60
61
"L'___, c'est moi" :
ETAT62
63
64
Down
1
2
3
4
5
Area of India's capital :
DELHI6
7
8
9
10
Be Petruchio's bride just to appease? :
PLAYKATE11
12
15
20
Type of wall covering :
PANEL21
24
Historic Hungarian city :
EGER25
Veteran Chinese leader :
DENG27
29
30
Steinbeck character :
OKIE31
Beat a bridge contract :
SET33
Sub ___ (secretly) :
ROSA34
35
Choose Mr. Charles at an outing? :
PICKNICK37
Von Stroheim of the movies :
ERICH40
42
44
"___ Written in a Country Churchyard" :
ELEGY46
"___ Be You and Me," by Marlo Thomas :
FREETO47
48
50
51
52
55
Stallone's nickname :
SLY56
57
Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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