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Melvin Kenworthy
Melvin Kenworthy

New York Times, Tuesday, December 4, 1990

49-Across : Incantation

Author:
Melvin Kenworthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 256 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Melvin Kenworthy has 23 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 15,001
Across
1
Matty or Felipe of baseball : ALOU
5
Overjoyed : GLAD
9
Sacred images : ICONS
14
Coral and Yellow : SEAS
15
Chest sound : RALE
16
Heavenly body : COMET
17
Types of 62 Across : PARASAILS
19
Delete : ERASE
20
First woman : EVE
21
Entice : LURE
22
Discontinues a launch : ABORTS
23
Porter : REDCAP
25
Ruhr valley city : ESSEN
27
Wallet items : ONES
29
Sunshade : PARASOL
33
Sport involving updrafts : HANGGLIDING
37
Swiss canton : URI
38
War god : ARES
39
Stock or smith preceder : GUN
40
Teacher's lesson ___ : PLAN
41
Female ruff : REE
42
Loiters : HANGSAROUND
46
State or river in Brazil : PARAIBA
48
Third man : ABEL
49
Incantation : SPELL
51
Queen of fiction : ELLERY
55
Help : ASSIST
58
He, to Rocco : EGLI
60
Chou En-___ : LAI
61
"___ Be the Tie That Binds" (hymn title) : BLEST
62
Sky diver's gear : PARACHUTE
64
Book by D. S. Freeman : RELEE
65
Hebrew lyre : ASOR
66
Top chef, to a gourmet : IDOL
67
Drone : IDLER
68
Lascivious : LEWD
69
Darn : MEND
Down
1
Former Turkish coin : ASPER
2
Go : LEAVE
3
Propelled a bireme : OARED
4
Dos Passos work : USA
5
Soft hail : GRAUPEL
6
Den : LAIR
7
Formal mall : ALLEE
8
___ Moines : DES
9
Floating hazard : ICEBERG
10
Long, untapered cigar : CORONA
11
Poet Khayyám : OMAR
12
Aerie, e.g. : NEST
13
Anne and Jeanne: Abbr. : STES
18
Street talk : SLANG
22
Wise ___ owl : ASAN
24
Gear teeth : COGS
26
___ yarn (does some storytelling) : SPINSA
28
High-low play at bridge : SIGNAL
30
Moro tribe member : SULU
31
Algerian seaport : ORAN
32
The Swedish Nightingale : LIND
33
Orchestra member : HARP
34
Code preceder : AREA
35
___-do-well : NEER
36
Spaded : DUG
40
Gallup sampling : POLL
42
Beatnik's cousin : HIPSTER
43
Drive the getaway car : ABET
44
Beloved of Héloïse : ABELARD
45
Keepsake : RELIC
47
"___ Religion": H. E. Fosdick : ASISEE
50
Rent : LEASE
52
Escape : ELUDE
53
Boca ___, Fla. : RATON
54
Road sign : YIELD
55
French shelter : ABRI
56
Yukon vehicle : SLED
57
Vend : SELL
59
Increase : GROW
62
O'Hara's "___ Joey" : PAL
63
An L.B.J. dog : HIM

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