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Kevin Boyle
Kevin Boyle

New York Times, Saturday, August 10, 1991

Author:
Kevin Boyle
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 27, Avg Word Len: 5.50, Missing: { J V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 96, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 29.9
Kevin Boyle has 32 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,250
Across
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Odoriferous : AROMATIC
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Tulip tree, for one : POPLAR
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___ stick (clarinet) : LICORICE
16
Anatomical interstice : AREOLE
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Plays the sycophant : ADULATES
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Missile devices : SLINGS
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This goes with poivre : SEL
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Bright-red rock crystal : RUBASSE
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___ gratias : DEO
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Knotty bump on a tree : KNUR
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Early Egyptian citizen : SAITE
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Kind of bread or chip : CORN
27
Confused : ATSEA
29
Gypsy horse : GRI
30
Actress Braga : SONIA
31
Brother : FRA
33
Silver-tongued : ELOQUENT
35
Formation of bone : OSTOSIS
39
Old French dance : BOURREE
40
Warship of 1862 : MERRIMAC
42
Right of precedence : PAS
43
Fishing vessels : PRAMS
44
"The ___ Squad," TV series : MOD
46
Half a shekel : BEKAH
50
Poulards : HENS
51
Son of Isis and Osiris : HORUS
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Major General Jesse Lee ___ : RENO
54
Town in E Belgium : ANS
55
Snake : MEANDER
57
Overalls part : BIB
58
Feast of St. Peter's Chains : LAMMAS
60
Legendary S.A. land of riches : ELDORADO
62
Execrable : ODIOUS
63
Furniture item for a service : TEATABLE
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People : SETTLE
65
Précis : SYNOPSES
Down
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The Last Frontier : ALASKA
2
Laughing : RIDENT
3
Eye : OCULUS
4
Smallest unit of an elem. : MOL
5
Sandarac tree : ARAR
6
Disciple of Apostle Paul : TITUS
7
Headache remedy : ICEBAG
8
West Indian poet : CESAIRE
9
Dated : PASSE
10
Fillet on a column : ORLE
11
Kennedy Library designer : PEI
12
Samuel Pepys was one : LONDONER
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Pirate : ALGERINE
14
Ring with sound : RESONATE
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Unit of luminance : STILB
24
Abandons evil conduct : REFORMS
26
Swift horse, poetically : COURSER
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Upbeat, in music : ARSIS
30
Nestling pigeon : SQUAB
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Objective : AIM
34
Alley-___ (basketball play) : OOP
35
Navel : OMPHALOS
36
Swain song : SERENADE
37
Convey : TRANSMIT
38
Navigator Islands, today : SAMOA
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Pastry cones : CORNETS
45
First Earl of Leicester : DUDLEY
47
Skewered meat : KEBABS
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"Mine's not ___ cause": Shak. : ANIDLE
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Landlopers : HOBOES
51
"Steppenwolf" author : HESSE
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City on the Meuse : SEDAN
55
Heavy hammer : MAUL
56
Mag section : ROTO
59
Pithy remark : MOT
61
Forte of Flavor-Flav : RAP

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 9 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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