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Nikki Tenfelde
Nikki Tenfelde

New York Times, Wednesday, January 14, 1981

60-Across : "Was it ___ I saw?" (palindrome)

Author:
Nikki Tenfelde
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q W X }, Scrabble score: 262 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0
Nikki Tenfelde has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,390
Across
1
Fish sauce : ALEC
5
What glaziers take with their work : PANES
10
Pointed missile : DART
14
God of destruction, in India : SIVA
15
Express sentiment : EMOTE
16
"___ and Civilization": Marcuse : EROS
17
Ship's bottom timber : KEEL
18
Bactrian ___ : CAMEL
19
Site of Pizarro's tomb : LIMA
20
"From my books ___ of sorrow": Poe : SURCEASE
22
Tributary : FEEDER
24
Samovars : URNS
25
Powwow : CHAT
26
It seems to pray over its prey : MANTIS
29
City of Lilies : FLORENCE
33
Small type : AGATE
34
Lull with lullabies : CROON
35
Unctuous, flattering speech : OIL
36
Round of golf tournaments : ROTA
37
Highly gratifying : PROUD
38
Matrix : MOLD
39
Time : ERA
40
England's third-longest river : TRENT
41
"Riveter" of W.W. II : ROSIE
42
Employed with a fixed income : SALARIED
44
Long and slender : LINEAR
45
Puppet : TOOL
46
Christmas ___, in a Dickens tale : PAST
47
Gentle breeze : ZEPHYR
50
Fatherly : PATERNAL
54
Its natural scale is D : OBOE
55
Growing outward : ENATE
57
Gaelic isle : EIRE
58
Bereft : LORN
59
She beguiles with wiles and smiles : SIREN
60
"Was it ___ I saw?" (palindrome) : ACAT
61
Socially organized insects : ANTS
62
Oblique direction : SLANT
63
This may seem slow when you fast : LENT
Down
1
Writes to Santa : ASKS
2
Stead : LIEU
3
Constantly : EVER
4
Site of the Black Hole : CALCUTTA
5
Large hickories : PECANS
6
What hoarders do : AMASS
7
Gold-rush site in the 90's : NOME
8
Solesmes season : ETE
9
Ipseity : SELFHOOD
10
Cut out : DELETE
11
Parched : ARID
12
Pinza's birthplace : ROME
13
Cossacks' employer : TSAR
21
City where most of Perry's ships were built : ERIE
23
Deserve : EARN
25
Ruthian wallop : CLOUT
26
___-nest (hoax) : MARES
27
Where olpes were bought : AGORA
28
Brazilian city since 1597 : NATAL
29
Fern leaf : FROND
30
Loop : NOOSE
31
Eyelashes : CILIA
32
Church functionary : ELDER
34
Gift for an angler : CREEL
37
High-ranking nun : PRIORESS
38
City of Saints : MONTREAL
40
City taken by Agamemnon : TROY
41
Increase in value : RISE
43
City of the Violet Crown : ATHENS
44
Not manifest : LATENT
46
Mass plate : PATEN
47
Writer born in Paris: 1840 : ZOLA
48
Black : EBON
49
___ Said, city in Egypt : PORT
50
Another name for the city of Belém : PARA
51
Garibaldi's birthplace : NICE
52
Mullen's "Man of ___" : ARAN
53
Native of Riga : LETT
56
Zero : NIL

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