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Christopher Sherwood
Christopher Sherwood

New York Times, Friday, July 31, 1987

51-Across : Major transgression

Author:
Christopher Sherwood
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { F Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 55, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Christopher Sherwood has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,779
Across
1
Pilsener ingredient : MALT
5
Lend a hand to a hood : ABET
9
___ and weave : BOB
12
Unparalleled : IDEAL
14
Theater box : LOGE
15
Avant-garde movement: 1916-22 : DADA
16
Source of igneous rock : MAGMA
17
Feral pig : BOAR
18
Boola-boola boys : ELIS
19
Period : ERA
20
Certain tourneys : ROUNDROBINS
23
Bean : LEGUME
25
Pianist Tatum : ART
26
"The Maids" playwright : GENET
27
Beat other reporters : SCOOPED
31
Tiny nails : BRADS
32
Bon mot : JOKE
34
Resort at Lake Garda : RIVA
35
Pester : RAG
36
Kind of moss : SPANISH
39
Tourmaline or peridot : GEM
40
Minute land mass : ISLE
42
A former British colony : ADEN
43
Sanctions : AMENS
45
Run : OPERATE
47
"Go away!" : SCOOT
48
Corrida call : OLE
49
Call forth : BECKON
51
Major transgression : CARDINALSIN
55
Masonry tool : HOD
58
Piffero's cousin : OBOE
59
Runabout's deck material : TEAK
60
Behave like a thespian : EMOTE
62
Shooter of gold-tipped arrows : EROS
63
Language of the Gaels : ERSE
64
Allied conference site: 1945 : YALTA
65
Opacate : DIM
66
Active one : DOER
67
Mexican muzhik : PEON
Down
1
Marceau's forte : MIME
2
Hebrew month : ADAR
3
Top-flight barrister: Colloq. : LEGALEAGLE
4
Sporty chapeau : TAM
5
Beatles' "Abbey Road," e.g. : ALBUM
6
TV's Paladin portrayer : BOONE
7
Expression of alarm : EGAD
8
Landscaping features : TERRACES
9
South Pacific island : BALI
10
Wednesday was named for him : ODIN
11
Kind of drum : BASS
13
Nobility of spirit : LARGESS
15
Shark's victim, at times : DEBTOR
21
Pitcher's aim : OUT
22
Gold, in Roma : ORO
24
Priestley's "Eden ___" : END
26
Understand : GRASP
27
Fauna wrapper : SKIN
28
Place in a slot : PIGEONHOLE
29
Track-meet segment : EVENT
30
Oahe, Oroville et al. : DAMS
31
Verve, Italian style : BRIO
32
Green shade : JADE
33
Low rating : ONE
37
Protected from imitators : PATENTED
38
Horse-drawn taxi : HACKNEY
41
Wears down : ERODES
44
Oop's kingdom : MOO
46
Ring name : ALI
47
___-fi : SCI
49
Pleasure-weary : BLASE
50
Glacial soil deposit : ESKER
51
Shields at Princeton : COED
52
Dugout shelter : ABRI
53
Study or cuddy : ROOM
54
Baltic island : AERO
56
Pianist Herz : OTTO
57
Doyen : DEAN
61
Mercatorial device : MAP

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