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Daniel Girardi
Daniel Girardi

New York Times, Friday, August 3, 1990

21-Across : Italian saint

Author:
Daniel Girardi
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 20.6
Daniel Girardi has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,878
Across
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French brandy : MARC
5
Ragout : SALMI
10
Spiritual mother : ALMA
14
Great Barrier Island : OTEA
15
Sirius's master : ORION
16
Culloden : MOOR
17
Play-it-safe advice on a gridiron : WHENINDOUBTPUNT
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Epsom ___ : SALTS
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Italian saint : NERI
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D or V : DAY
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A C.S.A. state : ALA
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Triton : EFT
27
Play the gofer : RUNBACKANDFORTH
36
"___ Poetica": Horace : ARS
37
Triple this for a film title : TORA
38
Agamete : SPORE
39
Plans, with "out" : MAPS
41
" ... could ___ lean" : EATNO
43
Cinder : SLAG
44
Musical gps. : ORCHS
46
LBJ's daughter : LUCI
47
Sedan season : ETE
48
Junior high : SECONDARYSCHOOL
52
Fair share : DUE
53
Mauve Decade, e.g. : ERA
54
"Star Wars" inits. : SDI
57
Sapins : FIRS
60
Masefield's Muse : ERATO
64
Overtake and attack, oater style : CUTOFFATTHEPASS
68
Turgenev's birthplace : OREL
69
Habituate : INURE
70
Discordia's Greek counterpart : ERIS
71
Guardian's concern : WARD
72
Kind of fever : CABIN
73
Actress Sofer : RENA
Down
1
Fells, with "down" : MOWS
2
Baile ___ Cliath (Dublin) : ATHA
3
Be giddy : REEL
4
J. F. Kennedy was one : CANTAB
5
Descendant : SON
6
Suffix with tank or dull : ARD
7
St. Mark's symbol : LION
8
Pout : MOUE
9
Acquired via heredity : INBRED
10
Elec. unit : AMP
11
Stentorian : LOUD
12
Opera by Horatio Parker : MONA
13
Chichi : ARTY
18
Majorca or Mallorca : ISLA
19
Spats : TIFFS
24
Frenchman's deed : ACTE
26
A-one : TOPS
27
___ gin fizz : RAMOS
28
Arrow poison : URARE
29
Org. protecting boys and girls : NSPCC
30
Australian tree dweller : KOALA
31
Pianist Schnabel : ARTUR
32
White House adviser in the 80's : NANCY
33
Log-rolling contest : ROLEO
34
Toledo deal : TRATO
35
"Science of Logic" author : HEGEL
40
Wearing wedgies : SHOD
42
Seine feeder : OISE
45
Rappee : SNUFF
49
Godlike : DEIFIC
50
Plains Indian : CREE
51
Paul Newman role : HARPER
54
Harbor vessel : SCOW
55
Brain membrane : DURA
56
Roman way : ITER
58
Punjabi potentate : RANA
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Last of a cigar : STUB
61
Swiss river : AARE
62
Chinese dynasty : TSIN
63
Thessalian peak : OSSA
65
___ Harry (Satan) : OLD
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Pod lead-in : TRI
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Its teeth are scarce : HEN

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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