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Evelyn Benshoof
Evelyn Benshoof

New York Times, Monday, January 28, 1991

68-Across : Cart

Author:
Evelyn Benshoof
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.64, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Evelyn Benshoof has 71 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,056
Across
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As well : ALSO
5
Crowd together : PACK
9
Attire : GARB
13
Abate : LETUP
15
___-et-Vilaine, French department : ILLE
16
Munich's river : ISAR
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TV studio sign : ONAIR
18
Project : PLAN
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Periwinkle, e.g. : VINE
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Longfellow's "Tales of a ___" : WAYSIDEINN
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Blue-pencil : EDIT
23
Patch : DARN
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Krupp works site : ESSEN
26
Divining rod : DOWSER
30
Cuff : BLOW
31
Lotion ingredient : ALOE
32
Mexican dish : TACO
35
Unkempt : RATTY
39
Begot : SIRED
41
Colt or Magnum : GUN
42
Lofty, snug retreat : EYRIE
43
Bridge card : HONOR
44
Coral ridge : REEF
46
Fictional home in Dixie : TARA
47
Soft leather for gloves : NAPA
49
Transient of a sort : ROOMER
51
Subject : THEME
53
Decree : FIAT
55
Onetime Turkish governors : BEYS
56
What those in the van do : LEADTHEWAY
62
Over again : ANEW
63
Swiss patriot : TELL
64
Portuguese city : EVORA
65
Hollywood's Barrett : RONA
66
" ... or ___ swoon to death": Keats : ELSE
67
"Cry Me a ___" : RIVER
68
Cart : DRAY
69
Colorer : DYER
70
Sprat's diet : LEAN
Down
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Down, to a salt : ALOW
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Singer Horne : LENA
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Abide : STAY
4
French assents : OUIS
5
Thieving Tom's father : PIPER
6
Weary : ALLIN
7
Family : CLAN
8
Animal shelter : KENNEL
9
Yields : GIVESWAYTO
10
Digression : ASIDE
11
Arrested : RANIN
12
Writer Harte : BRET
14
Group of lions : PRIDE
21
Bolt : DART
25
Tender : SORE
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Soupçon : DASH
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Ragout, for one : OLIO
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Exhausted : WORN
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Consider seriously : SEEONESWAY
30
Femur or fibula : BONE
33
Taj Mahal site : AGRA
34
Hint : CUE
36
Mine vehicle : TRAM
37
Radial : TIRE
38
Leap or lunar follower : YEAR
40
Perfumery weight : DRAM
45
Coll. rushers : FRAT
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Assailed with repeated blows : PELTED
50
Different in nature : OTHER
51
Drift : TENOR
52
Nocturnal carnivore : HYENA
53
Deceptive : FALSE
54
Fainéant : IDLER
55
Rhymer : BARD
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Hard to hold : EELY
58
Base : EVIL
59
Emulated Penelope : WOVE
60
Locale : AREA
61
Windy narrative : YARN

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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