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Melvin Kenworthy
Melvin Kenworthy

New York Times, Tuesday, January 29, 1991

23-Across : The Brazilian Bombshell

Author:
Melvin Kenworthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { none — this is a pangram }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Melvin Kenworthy has 23 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,057
Across
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Uses a divan : SITS
5
Indistinct : DIM
8
Poet translated by FitzGerald : OMAR
12
A social sci. : ECON
13
Quoted : CITED
15
Ruth or Herman : BABE
16
Actor Auberjonois : RENE
17
Daisy : OXEYE
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Actress Lena of "Havana" : OLIN
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Odd : UNEVEN
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Brought to memory : RECALLED
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The Brazilian Bombshell : MIRANDA
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N.B.A. arbiter : REF
26
Excavates : DIGS
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___ Creed or Council : NICENE
33
"Ma, He's Making Eyes ___" : ATME
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___ culpa : MEA
38
Footprints : TRACES
39
Portfolio item : QUARTERLYREPORT
42
Concord : UNISON
43
Bossy's milieu : LEA
44
___ gin fizz : SLOE
45
Nod : ASSENT
46
Inventor Linus: 1821-68 : YALE
48
Eye: Sp. : OJO
50
Fencing maneuver : RIPOSTE
55
Power unit : KILOWATT
60
Garden bloom : ZINNIA
61
First place : EDEN
62
Gulf of Lions feeder : RHONE
64
R.I. rebel in the 1840's : DORR
65
Nosegay : POSY
66
Darned : SEWED
67
Tuesday's appliance : IRON
68
Holm oak : ILEX
69
Q-U connector : RST
70
Hardy heroine : TESS
Down
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Antitoxin : SERUM
2
Boadicea was their queen : ICENI
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Paint-company employee : TONER
4
lndy 500 winner: 1983 : SNEVA
5
Advice columnist Dorothy : DIX
6
Road for Romulus : ITER
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Boston Marathon winner: 1983 : MEYER
8
Drachma part : OBOL
9
Group of shops : MALL
10
Rose lover onstage : ABIE
11
Tear : REND
13
Mustard containers : CONDIMENTJARS
14
Dispersed authority : DECENTRALIZED
20
Coda : END
22
Blazing : AFIRE
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Antiquing device : AGER
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Actress Struthers : SALLY
29
Balmoral and 55 Down : CAPS
30
Coll. subject : ECOL
31
Galba's predecessor : NERO
32
Princely Italian family : ESTE
33
Bluish-green shade : AQUA
34
Casks : TUNS
35
Months when Paris blooms : MAIS
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Gaelic : ERSE
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"Up ___," Al Smith's autobiography : TONOW
41
Decade unit : YEAR
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Finial : EPI
49
Different : OTHER
51
Rumor: Fr : ONDIT
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Night noise : SNORE
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U.S. satellite : TIROS
54
Merits : EARNS
55
De Gaulle headgear : KEPI
56
Matinee ___ : IDOL
57
___-majesté : LESE
58
Memento from a Mexican trip : ONYX
59
Pulls along : TOWS
63
Bird's target : NET

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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