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Richard Silvestri
Richard Silvestri

New York Times, Saturday, November 17, 1990

1-Across : "The Tender ___," Sinatra hit

Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { F J Q U X }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 2, Spans: 1
Richard Silvestri has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 84 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,984
Across
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"The Tender ___," Sinatra hit : TRAP
5
Bowl ritual : TOSS
9
Abib, today : NISAN
14
Lloyd's Register rating : AONE
15
Principal : ARCH
16
Part of "Veni, vidi, vici" : ICAME
17
Rib : RIDE
18
Exposed : BARE
19
Sunday frequency? : NEVER
20
Chased one (see 36 Across) : LILABNER
22
Correct text : EMEND
23
German philosopher : HEGEL
24
Toothsome : TASTY
25
Red address? : COMRADE
29
Place for a roast : OVEN
31
U.A.R. center : ARAB
32
Summit : ACME
33
High dudgeon : IRE
36
Occasion of the chase (11/17/90, e.g.) : SADIEHAWKINSDAY
41
Anemograph abbr. : ENE
42
Equator, e.g. : LINE
43
Petroleum residue : COKE
44
What's left : REST
45
Chicken choice : BROILER
48
PC adjunct : MODEM
51
Conger catcher : EELER
53
Rousseau work : EMILE
54
Chaser (see 36 Across) : DAISYMAE
58
Assumed : TAKEN
59
Fire god : AGNI
60
Not yet up : ABED
62
Regarding : ANENT
63
Knight's namesakes : TEDS
64
Nonentity : ZERO
65
Wallace-Wallechinsky compilations : LISTS
66
Whilom : ERST
67
School founded in 1440 : ETON
Down
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Jack-___ (sailor) : TAR
2
Ruffle : ROIL
3
Bacheller's "D'ri ___" : ANDI
4
Founder of Britain's Conservative Party : PEEL
5
Designated : TABBED
6
African river : ORANGE
7
Mass of detritus : SCREE
8
Sleuth : SHERLOCK
9
Almost a score : NINETEEN
10
Deliverer of yore : ICEMAN
11
Delivers from sin : SAVES
12
Catkin : AMENT
13
Like a nebbish : NERDY
21
Cry of discovery : AHA
25
Job for Mason : CASE
26
"The Plague" setting : ORAN
27
Crafted : MADE
28
Sac.-fly stat : RBI
30
The Keydets : VMI
32
Thunderstrike : AWE
33
Baphomet or Juggernaut : IDOL
34
Leave no leaves : RAKE
35
Onlooker : EYER
37
Violent weather : ELEMENTS
38
The gent's : HIS
39
Come before : ANTEDATE
40
Poli ___ (univ. course) : SCI
44
Let up : RELENT
45
Places of concealment : BLINDS
46
Withstand : RESIST
47
Kid of jazz : ORY
48
Palladium, for one : METAL
49
Matrah resident : OMANI
50
Friesland sights : DIKES
52
"Half Magic" author : EAGER
55
Perplexing passageway : MAZE
56
Aid feloniously : ABET
57
Eliel's son : EERO
61
Fellow at Oxford : DON

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