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Albert J. Klaus
New York Times, Monday, October 5, 1987
50-Across : Mining find
Author:
Albert J. Klaus
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 252 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Albert J. Klaus has 115 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 4 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 O | 2 T | 3 I | 4 C | 5 S | 6 C | 7 A | 8 R | 9 A | 10 L | 11 T | 12 A | 13 R |
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14 L | I | A | R | 15 L | O | B | E | 16 D | E | R | M | A |
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17 A | L | G | A | 18 E | D | E | N | 19 O | N | I | O | N |
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20 F | L | O | Y | 21 D | P | A | T | T | 22 E | R | S | O | N | |
23 O | A | T | 24 E | R | E | |||||||||
25 S | 26 P | 27 E | N | T | 28 O | 29 K | R | A | 30 E | 31 T | 32 T | 33 A |
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34 I | L | L | 35 E | 36 A | V | E | 37 S | 38 H | A | R | E | R |
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39 S | U | G | 40 A | R | R | A | Y | 41 L | E | O | N | A | R | D |
42 A | M | I | D | S | T | 43 E | A | R | N | 44 I | S | O |
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45 L | E | N | D | 46 E | 47 N | D | S | 48 E | 49 S | T | E | R |
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50 O | R | E | 51 I | S | T | |||||||||
52 H | 53 E | 54 N | R | Y | A | 55 R | 56 M | S | T | R | 57 O | 58 N | 59 G |
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60 N | O | M | A | D | 61 T | O | E | S | 62 E | V | E | R |
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63 A | L | I | V | E | 64 E | S | A | U | 65 S | A | M | E |
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66 P | E | T | E | R | 67 R | E | T | E | 68 S | L | O | W |
© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,845
Across
1
Of the ear : OTIC
5
Cicatrix : SCAR
9
Communion table : ALTAR
14
Fibber : LIAR
15
Rounded ear projection : LOBE
16
Skin layer : DERMA
17
Water plant : ALGA
18
Paradise : EDEN
19
Sharp-tasting vegetable : ONION
20
Fighter of the Year: 1956 and 1960 : FLOYDPATTERSON
23
Cereal grain : OAT
24
Before, to Poe : ERE
25
Squandered, perhaps : SPENT
28
Gumbo : OKRA
30
___ Kett of comics : ETTA
34
Indisposed : ILL
35
Roof edge : EAVE
37
Altruistic person : SHARER
39
Fighter of the Year: 1979 : SUGARRAYLEONARD
42
In the middle of : AMIDST
43
Deserve : EARN
44
Equal: Prefix : ISO
45
Give temporarily : LEND
46
Terminates : ENDS
48
Organic compound : ESTER
50
Mining find : ORE
51
Doctrine adherent : IST
52
Fighter of the Year: 1937 : HENRYARMSTRONG
60
Wanderer : NOMAD
61
On one's ___ (alert) : TOES
62
Always : EVER
63
Existent : ALIVE
64
Twin of Jacob : ESAU
65
Identical : SAME
66
Ustinov or Stuyvesant : PETER
67
Neural network : RETE
68
Dilatory : SLOW
Down
1
Norwegian king : OLAF
2
Cultivate : TILL
3
Villain in "Othello" : IAGO
4
French pencil : CRAYON
5
"Washington ___ here" : SLEPT
6
Ending passage in music : CODA
7
Help a hood : ABET
8
Tenant : RENTER
9
Revere : ADORE
10
Magnifier : LENS
11
Music for three : TRIO
12
Egyptian god : AMON
13
Operated : RAN
21
Post-office equipment : DATERS
22
Chalk remover : ERASER
25
Rope fiber : SISAL
26
Feather : PLUME
27
City WNW of Chicago : ELGIN
28
Eggs, to Cato : OVA
29
Attuned : KEYED
30
Suffix with Jacob or Euclid : EAN
31
Peculiarity : TRAIT
32
Concise : TERSE
33
Passion : ARDOR
36
Aorta, e.g. : ARTERY
38
Truthful : HONEST
40
Increase : ADD
41
Spanish article : LAS
47
Less messy : NEATER
49
Strain : STRESS
50
Command : ORDER
51
Offspring : ISSUE
52
Aperture : HOLE
53
Give forth : EMIT
54
Part of a church : NAVE
55
Ascended : ROSE
56
Gist : MEAT
57
Elliptical : OVAL
58
Verne character : NEMO
59
Expanded : GREW
60
Siesta : NAP
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.
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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.