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Evelyn Benshoof
Evelyn Benshoof

New York Times, Monday, December 17, 1990

49-Across : Self-defense system

Author:
Evelyn Benshoof
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.64, Missing: { J Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Evelyn Benshoof has 71 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 15,014
Across
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Official records : ACTA
5
Attire : GARB
9
Trunk fastener : HASP
13
Olympics light : TORCH
15
Part of N.Y. State Barge Canal : ERIE
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Mime : APER
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___ Beach, Normandy : OMAHA
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S. Pacific fabric : TAPA
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Naked : NUDE
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One outwardly powerful, inwardly weak : PAPERTIGER
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An achromatic color : GRAY
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Kind of bag : TOTE
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Actor Buddy from Belleville, III. : EBSEN
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Decorous : PROPER
30
Coffee type : DRIP
31
Thai king : RAMA
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Rapier's relative : EPEE
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Printing mark : CARET
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All thumbs : INEPT
41
Okla. city : ADA
42
Lyrical product : EPODE
43
Gold digger, sometimes : MINER
44
Deceives : CONS
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Author Ludwig : EMIL
47
Mick Jagger's forte : ROCK
49
Self-defense system : KARATE
51
Ipso ___ : FACTO
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Steeple ornaments : EPIS
55
Pollock or pike : FISH
56
Household wrapping : WAXEDPAPER
62
Chanteuse Horne : LENA
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Came down : ALIT
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Fit to be tied : IRATE
65
Lodes' output : ORES
66
Part : ROLE
67
Chili con ___ : CARNE
68
Combustible heap : PYRE
69
Source of venison : DEER
70
Globule : BEAD
Down
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On the apex : ATOP
2
Torpor : COMA
3
Hazard for Faldo : TRAP
4
Feel compassion : ACHE
5
Savvy? : GETIT
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O'Hara's "___ to Live" : ARAGE
7
Auspicious : RIPE
8
Safari member : BEARER
9
Commits forgery: Slang : HANGSPAPER
10
Venezuelan river : APURE
11
Four-door car : SEDAN
12
Mouse, to an owl : PREY
14
Poker Flat creator : HARTE
21
Made haste : TORE
25
Shade of green or blue : BICE
26
Formal : PRIM
27
Indian princess : RANI
28
Augury : OMEN
29
Would-be lawyer's effort : PAPERCHASE
30
College official : DEAN
33
Cram : PACK
34
Former name of Tokyo : EDO
36
The Eternal City : ROMA
37
Check texts : EDIT
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Part of TV : TELE
40
Fox or turkey follower : TROT
45
Slip sideways : SKID
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"Private Lives" playwright : COWARD
50
Meat garnish : ASPIC
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Intensely hot : FIERY
52
Actor Ed from Kansas City : ASNER
53
Banishment : EXILE
54
Stuyvesant or Minuit : PETER
55
Fail : FLOP
57
Fiber-yielding shrub : ALOE
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Fahd or Hussein : ARAB
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Do K.P. work : PARE
60
Sicilian menace : ETNA
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Cattail : REED

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2 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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