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Jeanne Wilson
Jeanne Wilson

New York Times, Friday, December 13, 1991

62-Across : "Believe ___": Ripley

Author:
Jeanne Wilson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 5.08, Missing: { F J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 252 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 8, XRef: 2, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Jeanne Wilson has 26 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,375
Across
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Eatery : DINER
6
Ruth, for one : SLUGGER
13
Hersey's bell town : ADANO
14
Tuscan marble center : CARRARA
15
Capitol covers : DOMES
16
With 55 Across, O. Henry work : CABBAGES
17
Porter : ALE
18
Blockhead : CLOD
20
Chemical suffix : ANE
21
Sights in suburbia : POOLS
22
The Hyades, to Dionysus : NURSES
26
French Polynesia's capital : PAPEETE
29
Brooks or Blanc : MEL
30
Soul, in St.-Lô : AME
31
Canyon mouth : ABRA
32
Autocrat : TSAR
34
City in SW Ill. : ALTON
36
Belgian tots? : BRUSSELSSPROUTS
39
Little moon, old style : LUNET
40
"We are as much ___ see": Thoreau : ASWE
41
J. Fonda role in "Klute" : BREE
42
Shoshonean : UTE
43
Immature : RAW
45
Plans : INTENDS
47
City in Iran : MESHED
49
Henry ___ Wallace : AGARD
50
Bern's river : AAR
51
Far from fair : UGLY
52
Sedan summer : ETE
55
See 16 Across : ANDKINGS
58
___ space : OUTER
60
Instruct again : RETEACH
61
___ den Linden : UNTER
62
"Believe ___": Ripley : ITORNOT
63
Crews : TEAMS
Down
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Arp's art style : DADA
2
Dagon, e.g. : IDOL
3
Designate : NAME
4
Compass pt. : ENE
5
Gat : ROSCOE
6
Lots : SCADS
7
Sci. room : LAB
8
Suave : URBANE
9
Like snow or sugar : GRANULAR
10
Security transaction : GAGER
11
Poetic preposition : ERE
12
Headland : RAS
16
Old King's side dish? : COLESLAW
19
Singer Lehmann : LOTTE
21
"___ porridge hot ... " : PEASE
23
Second-largest planet : SATURN
24
Hammed it up : EMOTED
25
Sanity : SENSES
26
Baby food : PABLUM
27
" ... self-sacrificing love of ___": Poe : ABRUTE
28
Breakfast dish : PRUNES
29
Alice Hegan Rice's heroine : MRSWIGGS
33
Onager : ASS
35
Like some leaves : LOBED
37
Comet, e.g. : STREAKER
38
Kind of colony : PENAL
44
Famed Hollywood dress designer : ADRIAN
46
Audition : TRYOUT
48
"It ___ Be You" : HADTO
49
Cipher : AUGHT
52
Singer James : ETTA
53
Pour : TEEM
54
Makes a boo-boo : ERRS
55
Jackie's second : ARI
56
Seine : NET
57
Cpl., for one : NCO
59
A French article : UNE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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