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Eileen Lexau
Eileen Lexau

New York Times, Wednesday, November 9, 1988

36-Across : Uncertain

Author:
Eileen Lexau
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q W X Y }, Scrabble score: 298 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Eileen Lexau has 17 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 10 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,246
Across
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Hits via a ray gun : ZAPS
5
Watering places : SPAS
9
Printer's mark : CARET
14
Pitcher Hershiser : OREL
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Elegant : POSH
16
Medieval French coin : OBOLE
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Character in "Dracula" : MINA
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French mountain : ALPE
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Little, e.g. : MIMIC
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Leatherworker : BEAMER
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Any which way : SLAPDASH
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Uncouth : ILLBRED
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Run away : FLEE
27
Over : AGAIN
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Italian revolutionary: 1819-58 : ORSINI
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Softly, in music : PIANO
36
Uncertain : VAGUE
38
Gear : RIG
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... as a bug in ___ : ARUG
40
Cooked pastry : BAKED
41
Farm building : SILO
42
Snitch : RAT
43
"Five Men and Pompey" poet : BENET
44
And wiser? : OLDER
45
Himalayan cedar : DEODAR
47
Italian cathedrals : DUOMI
49
Section of Morocco : IFNI
51
A fuel : PROPANE
55
Exciting baseball game : SLUGFEST
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Bedded down, in Britain : DOSSED
60
Danger : PERIL
61
Small flute : FIFE
63
Busy place : HIVE
64
Class : CASTE
65
Gumbo ingredient : OKRA
66
Norse god : ODIN
67
Coarse; unfeeling : CRASS
68
Iranian coin : RIAL
69
Retreats : DENS
Down
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Evil supernatural force : ZOMBI
2
Shakespearean sprite : ARIEL
3
Of punishment : PENAL
4
Recklessly : SLAMBANG
5
"Brother, Can You ___ Dime?" : SPAREA
6
Ward heeler : POL
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Vipers : ASPS
8
Bookcase section : SHELF
9
British emcee : COMPERE
10
Stands : ABIDES
11
City on the Tevere : ROMA
12
A department of Greece : ELIS
13
Lab attendant, for short : TECH
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Therefore : ERGO
23
So as to be heard : ALOUD
25
Sofa : DIVAN
28
Nude : NAKED
30
Lilylike plant : IRID
31
Shade of green : NILE
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"Prince ___," Borodin opera : IGOR
33
Cowboy's pal : PARD
34
Dies ___ : IRAE
35
Stanley Steamer, e.g. : AUTO
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Costume : GETUP
40
He wrote "Games People Play" : BERNE
41
Careless : SLIPSHOD
43
Perplexes : BAFFLES
44
Melville novel : OMOO
46
Toes, e.g. : DIGITS
48
Trial : ORDEAL
50
"A ___ apple" : ISFOR
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Stage direction : ASIDE
53
Composer Ethelbert : NEVIN
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Utopias : EDENS
55
Youngsters' protective assn. : SPCC
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Norman of TV fame : LEAR
57
Sky Bear : URSA
58
First Polynesian man : TIKI
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___ Angelico : FRA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 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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