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Virginia L. Yates
Virginia L. Yates

New York Times, Tuesday, September 12, 1989

42-Down : Tail's partner

Author:
Virginia L. Yates
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 315 (avg 1.68)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 25.8
Virginia L. Yates has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,553
Across
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Show great pleasure : BEAM
5
Fly into pieces : BURST
10
Two together : BOTH
14
Not in a good way : ILLY
15
A daughter of Zeus : ERATO
16
Lotion potion : ALOE
17
Mind the store : BEONTHEJOB
19
Jazzman's repeated melodic phrase : RIFF
20
Guard against : BEWARE
21
Daily dozen, e.g. : WORKOUT
23
Maurice Chevalier's theme song : MIMI
25
Jack of "Flower Drum Song" film : SOO
26
Withered : SERE
29
G.I. duds : ODS
31
Noxious fly : TSETSE
36
A Gardner : AVA
37
City on the Mohawk : UTICA
39
Move like a worm : CRAWL
40
Expedite : MAKESHORTWORKOF
43
Word to "kind friends" : ADIEU
44
Tenth part : TITHE
45
J. Lincoln's "Cap'n ___" : ERI
46
Sarasota or Saratoga : RESORT
48
Upsilon follower : PHI
49
Calvados port : CAEN
50
Faux ___ : PAS
52
Sundance Kid's girl : ETTA
54
Excites : WORKSUP
58
___ pie : EASYAS
62
Mine, in Metz : AMOI
63
Scold : TAKETOTASK
66
___ up (settled) : SEWN
67
African ruminant : OKAPI
68
Olive genus : OLEA
69
One annoyingly proper : PRIG
70
Spirit; demon : GENIE
71
Straight, to a bartender : NEAT
Down
1
Type of lettuce : BIBB
2
General Robert : ELEE
3
"Punning is ___ species of wit": N. Webster : ALOW
4
"___ Is Asher Lev": Potok : MYNAME
5
Big beast : BEHEMOTH
6
Actress Mary of "Sons and Lovers" : URE
7
Rule, in India : RAJ
8
Puts away : STOWS
9
Besides : TOBOOT
10
Cinchona, e.g. : BARK
11
Stew : OLIO
12
Soybean product : TOFU
13
Avoirdupois : HEFT
18
Pod beginner : TRI
22
Gat or rod : ROSCOE
24
Dostoyevsky subject : IDIOT
26
Leyte's neighbor : SAMAR
27
Skirt : EVADE
28
Ouzo's kin : RAKIS
30
Financial certificate : SCRIP
32
Bobble : ERR
33
___ powder (flee) : TAKEA
34
Turned the air blue : SWORE
35
Pixieish : ELFIN
37
Appropriates : USURPS
38
"___ Ballet," "A Chorus Line" song : ATTHE
41
Fair-hiring prog. : EEO
42
Tail's partner : WHITETIE
47
Edible wrasse fish : TAUTOG
49
Knitter's instruction : CASTON
51
"Thus ___ Zarathustra" : SPAKE
53
Chinese philosophical ideal : TAO
54
Mud dauber : WASP
55
Hebrew measure : OMER
56
Notation on a ticket : ROWI
57
Kind of crab : KING
59
George Bush's alma mater : YALE
60
On the Red : ASEA
61
Three-handed card game : SKAT
64
Sunflower St. : KAN
65
Cure lead-in : EPI

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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