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Richard Silvestri
Richard Silvestri

New York Times, Tuesday, November 14, 1989

28-Across : Not at all

Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 5, XRef: 2, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Richard Silvestri has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 84 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,616
Across
1
Necromancy : MAGIC
6
Polaris or Aldebaran : STAR
10
Not fizzing : FLAT
14
Let up : ABATE
15
Mah-jongg piece : TILE
16
Carry into a carrier : LADE
17
French Impressionist : MONET
18
In the thick of : AMID
19
On the Caribbean : ASEA
20
Alice in 38 Across : AUDREYMEADOWS
23
Hog haven : STY
24
Tie fabric : REP
25
Words from a rev. : SER
26
Lawrence's steed : CAMEL
28
Not at all : NOWISE
33
Height: Comb. form : ACRO
36
Author LeShan : EDA
37
Not so nasty : NICER
38
Memorable situation comedy : THEHONEYMOONERS
42
Periodically flowing and ebbing : TIDAL
43
Sun. follower : MON
44
Algonquian Indian : CREE
45
Expiated : ATONED
47
Related maternally : ENATE
49
Comparative ending : IER
51
Bullring bravo : OLE
52
The Greatest : ALI
55
Ralph in 38 Across : JACKIEGLEASON
59
Armstrong's was historic : STEP
61
Tree-trunk protuberance : KNAR
62
Ga. city : MACON
63
Decline to bid : PASS
64
This, to Juana : ESTA
65
Like a moth hole : EROSE
66
Part of A.M. : ANTE
67
Twenty quires : REAM
68
Dissuade : DETER
Down
1
Papas' partners : MAMAS
2
Circa : ABOUT
3
___ dancer (railroad worker) : GANDY
4
Brain duct : ITER
5
Et follower : CETERA
6
Drover's disaster : STAMPEDE
7
Watch information : TIME
8
Otherwise named : ALIAS
9
Flush : REDDEN
10
Defect : FLAW
11
Colleen : LASS
12
Fruity drink : ADE
13
Afternoon gathering : TEA
21
Where to find Mocha : YEMEN
22
U. of Maine location : ORONO
26
Cagney role : COHAN
27
"Now I ___ ... " : LAYME
29
Flinch : WINCE
30
Cake finisher : ICER
31
Drought-ridden : SERE
32
Celtic tongue : ERSE
33
"___ boy!" : ATTA
34
I.o.u. : CHIT
35
Make over : REDO
39
Oil-based : OLEIC
40
Handkerchief marking : MONOGRAM
41
___ fours (creeping) : ONALL
46
He played Dr. Cyclops : DEKKER
48
Came down in torrents : TEEMED
50
Wash out : RINSE
52
Broad necktie : ASCOT
53
Unpackaged : LOOSE
54
Kind of circle or man : INNER
55
Witticism : JEST
56
Church recess : APSE
57
"I could ___ horse" : EATA
58
Swiss river : AARE
59
Bath, for one : SPA
60
Turn brown : TAN

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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