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Ruth Minary
Ruth Minary

New York Times, Monday, January 13, 1992

5-Across : Famed marionette maker

Author:
Ruth Minary
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J Q X Y }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Ruth Minary has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,406
Across
1
Dross of metal : SLAG
5
Famed marionette maker : SARG
9
___ avis : RARA
13
Prefix with sphere : HEMI
14
Lotion ingredient : ALOE
15
"Call Me ___" : MADAM
16
Tel ___ : AVIV
17
Track tipster : TOUT
18
Quickly : APACE
19
Helen's husband : MENELAUS
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Shrewdness : ACUMEN
22
"Two Women" star : LOREN
23
Shakespeare's man of Athens : TIMON
25
Canvas : SAIL
27
Australian statesman : MENZIES
31
Male swan : COB
34
Rascals : SCAMPS
36
Bruhn of ballet : ERIK
37
Astern : ABAFT
39
Three before double-u : TEE
40
Solitary : ALONE
41
Calabrian coin : LIRA
42
Repairer : MENDER
44
Recent : NEW
45
"Newspaper Days" author : MENCKEN
47
"___ Diary": Twain : EVES
49
Anacreon's Muse : ERATO
51
Negatively charged particle : ANION
54
It's sometimes secret : BALLOT
57
Greek comic dramatist : MENANDER
60
Poker player's ___ the hole : ACEIN
61
Watch over : TEND
62
Actress Rowlands : GENA
63
Irritate : CHAFE
64
Poet Sexton : ANNE
65
Long periods : EONS
66
Clark of Smallville : KENT
67
"Back in the ___": Beatles : USSR
68
Fragment : SNIP
Down
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Humbug : SHAM
2
Flat : LEVEL
3
Kind of acid : AMINO
4
Charitable people : GIVERS
5
Wicked : SATANIC
6
Baseball brothers' surname : ALOU
7
Bestir from bed : ROUST
8
Obtain : GET
9
She let down her hair : RAPUNZEL
10
Eliot's Bede : ADAM
11
Watercourse : RACE
12
Final word : AMEN
15
City in Ga. : MACON
20
Smallest : LEAST
21
Iowa State U. site : AMES
24
Obstruct : IMPEDE
26
Hidden : LATENT
28
Pressing need? : IRON
29
German article : EINE
30
Twist : SKEW
31
Composed : CALM
32
Tony's cousin : OBIE
33
Place for a dance : BARN
35
Thematic letters herein : MEN
38
Cosmetic surgery : FACELIFT
40
Joe Louis is one : ARENA
42
Pith : MEAT
43
Heavyweight Holyfield : EVANDER
46
Scandinavian coin : KRONE
48
Burns superficially : SINGES
50
Signs : OMENS
52
Theater : ODEON
53
Italian Socialist Pietro ___ : NENNI
54
Support : BACK
55
Feel compassion : ACHE
56
Scraggy : LEAN
58
Danube feeder : ENNS
59
Grate : RASP
61
Kind of cross : TAU

Answer summary:
4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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