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Judson G. Trent
Judson G. Trent

New York Times, Tuesday, October 17, 1989

65-Across : Box cautiously

Author:
Judson G. Trent
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 1
Judson G. Trent has 51 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,588
Across
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Composer Khachaturian : ARAM
5
Soprano Gluck : ALMA
9
"They have spread ___ ... ": Psalms : ANET
13
Jot : IOTA
14
Boru or Aherne : BRIAN
15
Granular snow : NEVE
16
Big Ben sound : DONG
17
A.B.A. members : ATTYS
18
Kind of surgeon : TREE
19
Epitome of handsomeness : ADONIS
21
Mo.'s flower : HAWTHORN
23
Before sleep or state : OVER
25
Withered : SERE
26
Some of Chopin's compositions : BALLADES
30
Send back : REMAND
34
At full speed : AMAIN
35
Insertion mark : CARET
37
___ volente : DEO
38
Glen Gray's Casa ___ orchestra : LOMA
39
"My ___ Is Bent": Paar : SABER
40
Used a sley : WOVE
41
___ generis (unique) : SUI
42
Gare du Nord, e.g. : DEPOT
43
Rome's river : TIBER
44
Qatar's locale : ARABIA
46
Fishing vessels : TRAWLERS
48
Take ten : REST
50
"Metamorphoses" poet : OVID
51
Hawaii's flower : HIBISCUS
55
Matriculate : ENROLL
59
___ in the wood : AGED
60
More competent : ABLER
62
Gumbo : OLIO
63
Curia tribunal : ROTA
64
Rings : PEALS
65
Box cautiously : SPAR
66
Of an epoch : ERAL
67
Columnist Bombeck : ERMA
68
Uncanny : EERY
Down
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Met staple : AIDA
2
Cross : ROOD
3
___ time : ATNO
4
Flower of La. or Miss. : MAGNOLIA
5
Tatum or Garfunkel : ART
6
Vilna's S.S.R. : LITH
7
Yucatan Indians : MAYAS
8
Respondent : ANSWERER
9
Key creation : ANTHEM
10
Archie's boss : NERO
11
Invariably : EVER
12
Comics' Harold : TEEN
14
Founded : BASED
20
Lendl of tennis : IVAN
22
Former allowance for weight : TRET
24
Summarize : RECAP
26
Light wood : BALSA
27
Love, in Lille : AMOUR
28
Vampire : LAMIA
29
Clog's cousin : SABOT
31
Taos brick : ADOBE
32
See 3 Down : NEVER
33
Activists : DOERS
36
Kind of rocket : RETRO
39
Winslow Homer painting : SEASCAPE
40
Iowa's flower : WILDROSE
42
Christie's "Lord Edgeware ___" : DIES
43
Castor, to Pollux : TWIN
45
Kind of party : BRIDAL
47
Contends : AVERS
49
Dahlia root : TUBER
51
Aesop's loser : HARE
52
Operatic prince : IGOR
53
Phi follower on a key : BETA
54
Duplicate coup : SLAM
56
Greek flask : OLPE
57
Sapphira or Ananias : LIAR
58
Parrot of N.Z. : LORY
61
Guido's high note : ELA

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