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Frank Miceli
Frank Miceli

New York Times, Tuesday, November 3, 1992

49-Across : African plant

Author:
Frank Miceli
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { F J K Q W Y Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5 Grid has duplicate clues.
Frank Miceli has 6 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,701
Across
1
Yen : ITCH
5
Item for Retton : BEAM
9
Hoffman role : RATSO
14
Kind of beer : NEAR
15
Chassis part : AXLE
16
Mork, e.g. : ALIEN
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Therefore : ERGO
18
Box : SPAR
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Card game : MONTE
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The incumbent : PRESGEORGEBUSH
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Concise : TERSE
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Kind of ticket : MEAL
25
Cuban coin : PESO
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Curved piece of a ship's timber : STEMSON
33
Grisly : GRUESOME
37
Swiss stream : AARE
38
The House : REPRESENTATIVES
42
Hersey's "___ the Valley" : INTO
43
Lovable quality : DEARNESS
44
Comforted : SOOTHED
48
Burr-Hamilton event : DUEL
49
African plant : ALOE
51
Explorer da Gama : VASCO
55
A challenger : GOVBILLCLINTON
60
Home to Nunn and Warner : DIXIE
61
Zhivago's love : LARA
62
Sunshine State county : DADE
63
"Maria ___," 1933 song : ELENA
64
At the apex : ATOP
65
Flat : EVEN
66
Prides of the pride : MANES
67
R.W.R. and R.M.N. : REPS
68
A memorable Foxx : REDD
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Awkward : INEPT
2
___ Haute, Ind. : TERRE
3
Bird or Jordan : CAGER
4
A challenger : HROSSPEROT
5
Headquarters : BASE
6
Member of 10 Down's team : EXPO
7
Slumberland invader : ALARM
8
Causes to coalesce : MERGES
9
Wandering walk : RAMBLE
10
Manager Felipe ___ : ALOU
11
Coffee cans, in Cheshire : TINS
12
He lived 912 years : SETH
13
" ... ___ nation, under God ... " : ONE
21
Gaggle group : GEESE
22
___ humble pie (apologize) : EAT
26
Sparks's desperate message : SOS
27
Mass: Suffix : OME
29
Californian, to a Hawaiian : MAINLANDER
30
Goalie's feat : SAVE
31
Galena and malachite : ORES
32
Costner role : NESS
33
Cubist Juan ___ : GRIS
34
City in Sen. Bryan's state : RENO
35
___-date (modern) : UPTO
36
QB's target, often : END
39
A Kennedy : TED
40
Track's governing org. : AAU
41
Famous fountain in Rome : TREVI
45
___ corpus : HABEAS
46
Yalie : ELI
47
Kind of diplomacy : DOLLAR
50
Fill with joy : ELATE
52
__ off (forestall) : STAVE
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Like secret messages : CODED
54
Upright : ONEND
55
Kind of monster : GILA
56
The yoke's on them : OXEN
57
Kind of yard : VINE
58
Jockey's whip : CROP
59
Pool swimmers' distance units : LAPS
60
J.E.C. or L.B.J. : DEM

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

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