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Betty Hinman
Betty Hinman

New York Times, Wednesday, November 4, 1992

69-Across : Liqueur or cordial

Author:
Betty Hinman
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.64, Missing: { J K Q W X }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Betty Hinman has 10 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,702
Across
1
Muse of comedy : THALIA
7
Bambi's aunt : ENA
10
Parson bird : TUI
13
Drapery over a window : VALANCE
15
Performs : RENDERS
17
Referee : ARBITER
18
Lear daughter : GONERIL
19
___ nobis (writ of error or review) : CORAM
21
Church section : APSE
22
A Scrooge portrayer : SIM
25
Small boats : TENDERS
29
Bread fragment : CRUMB
32
City on the Allegheny : OLEAN
33
I, to Hans : ICH
36
Old Testament book : HOSEA
37
Something to read : PALM
38
___-Magnon : CRO
39
Humdingers : ONERS
40
A policeman's isn't happy : LOT
41
Frome of fiction : ETHAN
43
Classic car : REO
44
Monad : ATOM
46
___ off (leave) : SHOVE
47
Navigational aid: Abbr. : RDF
48
Categorize : LABEL
50
Toast starter : HERES
51
Like certain chops : MUTTONY
53
Superlative suffix : EST
54
Muses' father : ZEUS
56
Molder : ERODE
60
Talk-show host Hall : ARSENIO
64
What Truman once tickled : IVORIES
68
Kin of porch swings : GLIDERS
69
Liqueur or cordial : CURACAO
70
Amex overseer : SEC
71
Linksman's need : TEE
72
Boeotian Muse of meditation : MELETE
Down
1
Fed. power project : TVA
2
___ Govind, Sikh guru : HAR
3
Vestment : ALB
4
Secular : LAIC
5
Division word : INTO
6
Maple genus : ACER
7
Gobi sight : ERG
8
Avant-gardist : NEO
9
___ Howe, Palooka's bride : ANN
10
Muse of dance : TERPSICHORE
11
"Exodus" author : URIS
12
Key : ISLE
14
Muse of poetry : ERATO
16
Costly : DEAR
20
Muse of tragedy : MELPOMENE
22
News commentator Daniel ___ : SCHORR
23
Pressed : IRONED
24
Euterpe : MUSEOFMUSIC
26
Orderly : NEAT
27
"___ labbro ... ": Verdi aria : DAL
28
Tangle : ENMESH
30
Matelot's milieu : MER
31
Igneous rock : BASALT
34
Yearns for : CRAVES
35
Ethical : HONEST
40
Timber wolf : LOBO
42
Oft-read article : THE
45
Use a shuttle : TAT
49
Keatsian work : LYRIC
52
Secondhand : USED
54
Sharp turns : ZAGS
55
First name in mysteries : ERLE
57
Egg : OVUM
58
Producer Schary : DORE
59
Of an epoch : ERAL
61
Seine : NET
62
Fury : IRE
63
Full of: Suffix : OSE
65
Hot gems : ICE
66
Nosh : EAT
67
Old wooden pail : SOE

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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