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Melvin Kenworthy
Melvin Kenworthy

New York Times, Tuesday, December 30, 1986

57-Across : Toiler in the soil

Author:
Melvin Kenworthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { H J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 61, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Melvin Kenworthy has 23 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,566
Across
1
Dizzy, for one : DEAN
5
Shriver of tennis : PAM
8
Freeway exits : RAMPS
13
English composer: 1710-78 : ARNE
14
Farm structure : SILO
15
Napoleon in 1814-15 : EXILE
16
Cold time : MIDWINTER
18
Euripides drama : MEDEA
19
Sgt. : NCO
20
Food item : OATCAKE
22
Anathema to R. Carson : DDT
23
Malay Archipelago wear : SARONG
25
Alpine warble : YODEL
27
Rope fiber : SISAL
30
Painter Albert Pinkham and family : RYDERS
33
Letter from Greece : GAMMA
36
Ore vein : LODE
38
"___ by the papers ... " : ISEE
39
Mixture : OLIO
40
Marketplace : AGORA
41
Parisian head : TETE
42
Appends : ADDS
43
Solitary : LONE
44
Ready for shipping : BOXED
45
Carpenter's chore : SAWING
47
Indian lute : SITAR
49
Hymn writer Watts : ISAAC
51
Follows : ENSUES
55
Some of the queen's men : RAF
57
Toiler in the soil : PEASANT
60
Limerick-to-Sligo dir. : NNE
61
___ in the dark : ALEAP
63
Hot time : MIDSUMMER
65
North, south of the border : NORTE
66
Bacchanal cry : EVOE
67
Poi source : TARO
68
Like a piano : KEYED
69
Intl. group since 1948 : OAS
70
TV nuisance : SNOW
Down
1
Condemns : DAMNS
2
Jong from N.Y.C. : ERICA
3
Alternative phrase : ANDOR
4
Unused : NEW
5
Home of the Panthers : PITT
6
Highlands first name : ALEC
7
Vicious eel : MORAY
8
Cure : REMEDY
9
Bunyan's implement : AXE
10
County in Conn., Mass., N.J.or Va. : MIDDLESEX
11
Begged : PLED
12
Congressman's prize : SEAT
14
Hitches : SNAGS
17
Ancient district of Asia Minor : IONIA
21
Divided Asian country : KOREA
24
Process of diffusion : OSMOSIS
26
Blue-pencil wielders : EDITORS
28
Pain: Comb. form : ALGO
29
Water birds : LOONS
31
Anatomical network : RETE
32
Germ : SEED
33
Tibetan antelopes : GOAS
34
Alan of "M*A*S*H" : ALDA
35
Form of obstetrics : MIDWIFERY
37
Three, in Düsseldorf : DREI
40
Bane of pool owners : ALGAE
44
African language : BANTU
46
Took 40 winks : NAPPED
48
Past or present : TENSE
50
Carving in relief : CAMEO
52
Deprive of courage : UNMAN
53
January, in Jalisco : ENERO
54
Asian goat antelope : SEROW
55
Private or major : RANK
56
Drug-yielding plant : ALOE
58
Hindu trinity member : SIVA
59
Stirs : ADOS
62
Consumed : ATE
64
White and Adirondack: Abbr. : MTS

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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