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Patricia A. Cevaal
Patricia A. Cevaal

New York Times, Wednesday, November 27, 1991

9-Across : Drinks like a kitten

Author:
Patricia A. Cevaal
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Patricia A. Cevaal has 10 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,359
Across
1
Phoenician god : BAAL
5
Elmer and Elsie's baby : CALF
9
Drinks like a kitten : LAPS
13
Border on a knight's shield : ORLE
14
Fla. golf tournament : DORAL
15
Affirm : AVOW
16
Loesser's transportation in 1948? : SLOWBOATTOCHINA
19
Cockpit occupants : COPILOTS
20
Lewis E. Lawes was one : WARDEN
21
Ditto : SAME
22
Play the lottery : BET
23
With, in Bonn : MIT
26
With "Little," Prince's transportation in 1983? : REDCORVETTE
32
Doted on : ADORED
34
Poem for singing : LAY
35
Loose, crumbly earth : MARL
36
Do an upholsterer's job anew : REPAD
37
___-relief : BAS
38
Like measles, mumps, etc. : VIRAL
39
Norman city : CAEN
40
Louis XIV, for one : ROI
41
Harangue : TIRADE
42
With "The," Gus Bailey's transportation in 1917? : OLDGREYMARE
45
Cambodian coin : SEN
46
Terminus : END
47
Comic Carvey : DANA
49
Actress Vivian from Newark : BLAINE
53
Clarinetist Pete : FOUNTAIN
57
Beatles' transportation in 1966? : YELLOWSUBMARINE
59
Lacquered metalware : TOLE
60
Befuddled : ATSEA
61
Annoys : IRKS
62
Wife of Geraint : ENID
63
Wine sediment : LEES
64
Kind of moss : PEAT
Down
1
Winter pear : BOSC
2
A Guthrie : ARLO
3
Drooping : ALOP
4
Alice's creator : LEWIS
5
Covered with dust : COATED
6
Crafts' partner : ARTS
7
Opposite of long. : LAT
8
Bombastic : FLOWERY
9
He played the Cowardly Lion : LAHR
10
Craving eagerly : AVID
11
Corn bread : PONE
12
Tchaikovsky's "___ Lake" : SWAN
14
Star-crossed : DOOMED
17
Sounded like a boom box : BLARED
18
Means of home entertainment: Abbr. : CATV
22
Constricting scarves? : BOAS
23
O'Neill's "___ Millions" : MARCO
24
Perfect : IDEAL
25
Hit the bottle : TOPED
27
Forty-niner's property : CLAIM
28
Aga's associate : EMIR
29
Gogol's "___ Bulba" : TARAS
30
Wall Street transaction : TRADE
31
Burstyn or Glasgow : ELLEN
33
Called by phone : RANG
37
Cassidy portrayer : BOYD
38
It's Wien to Austrians : VIENNA
40
Publisher's notice : RENEWAL
41
Shock : TRAUMA
43
Gambling mecca : RENO
44
Unburnt bricks : ADOBES
48
Anchor position : ATRIP
49
Computer unit : BYTE
50
Novelist Uris : LEON
51
There: Sp. : ALLI
52
"___ Three Lives" : ILED
53
Melt together : FUSE
54
Yorkshire river : AIRE
55
Durante's "___ Dinka Doo" : INKA
56
Snuggery : NEST
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Sault ___ Marie : STE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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