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William Canine
William Canine

New York Times, Wednesday, December 9, 1987

49-Across : Man from the Yard

Author:
William Canine
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F J Q X }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
William Canine has 65 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,910
Across
1
Yellow stone : TOPAZ
6
Grease : LARD
10
Shear : CLIP
14
Dumbfound : AMAZE
15
Jug : EWER
16
Storyteller's material : LORE
17
St.-John's-bread : CAROB
18
Tolstoy heroine : ANNA
19
" ... the playing fields of ___" : ETON
20
Knotty : KNARRED
22
Wind instrument : OCARINA
24
Mole's prey : EARTHWORM
26
Lily of opera : PONS
29
___ Carlo Menotti : GIAN
30
Furors : TODOS
34
Spanish landlady : AMA
35
Rooster's cap : COMB
36
Accustom : INURE
37
Carp : CAVIL
39
"___ Heldenleben": Strauss : EIN
41
Wristlet : STRAP
42
Macduff, at one time : THANE
43
Savoir-faire : TACT
45
SHAEF sector : ETO
46
Mambolike dance : SALSA
47
Distinctive air : AURA
48
Writer of westerns : GREY
49
Man from the Yard : INSPECTOR
52
Sentences to prison : SENDSUP
55
Seminole chief : OSCEOLA
59
Sylvan plant : TREE
60
Sod for fuel : PEAT
62
Purposeful : TELIC
63
Love, for Plácido : AMOR
64
Branches : RAMI
65
Fanfare : ECLAT
66
Forbids : BANS
67
Actor Guinness : ALEC
68
Rents : TEARS
Down
1
Change course : TACK
2
Site of Muscat : OMAN
3
Yugoslav coin : PARA
4
Atlantic island group : AZORES
5
Veld equine : ZEBRA
6
Manufacturer's need : LEADTIME
7
Arista : AWN
8
Fame : RENOWN
9
Ursa Major neighbor : DRACO
10
Fulton's steamboat : CLERMONT
11
Novelist Pierre : LOTI
12
Ferrum : IRON
13
Tony of baseball : PENA
21
Therefore : ERGO
23
Hopper or Turner : ARTIST
25
Frequenter : HABITUE
26
Agreements : PACTS
27
City on the Missouri : OMAHA
28
Of ships at sea : NAVAL
31
Engraver Albrecht : DURER
32
Declaim : ORATE
33
British-Indian soldier : SEPOY
35
Launders : CLEANS
38
Some on Wall Street : INSIDERS
40
Sleep-producing : NARCOTIC
44
Broadway musical : CATS
47
Beg : APPEAL
48
Place to spend drachmae : GREECE
50
Above: Comb. form : SUPRA
51
Two foursomes : OCTET
52
Pierce : STAB
53
Bombeck : ERMA
54
Argon's kin : NEON
56
Pot for Pedro : OLLA
57
Ananias : LIAR
58
Bible book : ACTS
61
Pierre's soul : AME

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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