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Kenneth Witte
Kenneth Witte

New York Times, Thursday, February 12, 1987

43-Across : Like a bug in a rug

Author:
Kenneth Witte
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 257 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Kenneth Witte has 30 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,610
Across
1
Brewer's preparation : MASH
5
Diving-bell inventor : EADS
9
Padnag : AMBLE
14
City N of the Skagerrak : OSLO
15
Source of some grease : SUET
16
Sound : VALID
17
Pecan pith : MEAT
18
Aspen, for one : TREE
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Notched, as a leaf : EROSE
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The Great Emancipator : ABRAHAMLINCOLN
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"I Was the ___," Presley hit : ONE
24
Baton Rouge inst. : LSU
25
___ Prés, Flemish composer : DES
26
Where Booth struck: April 14, 1865 : FORDSTHEATER
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Ostrich's kin : EMU
33
Long period : AEON
34
Finnish bath : SAUNA
38
Poet Edward Rowland ___ : SILL
40
Passover feast : SEDER
43
Like a bug in a rug : SNUG
44
Pass imperceptibly : STEAL
46
What video means : ISEE
48
Mrs. Cantor : IDA
49
Epithet for 20 Across : RAILSPLITTER
53
Rowan : ASH
56
Annoy : TRY
57
Ripen : AGE
58
The Little Giant : STEPHENDOUGLAS
64
Hawkins or Thompson : SADIE
65
Fine feathers : DOWN
66
___ dice : LIAR
68
Orchard pest : EGGAR
69
Oil-producing org. : OPEC
70
White-tailed sea bird : ERNE
71
Wee : TEENY
72
Hudson contemporary : NASH
73
Willis of N.B.A. fame : REED
Down
1
Apple-pie maker : MOM
2
Where Shaftoe is : ASEA
3
Gooden's plate : SLAB
4
Dragster : HOTROD
5
Art lovers : ESTHETES
6
Emanation : AURA
7
Form an opinion : DEEM
8
Kim Hunter role : STELLA
9
Approaches : AVENUES
10
Painter Chagall : MARC
11
Kind of bank or test : BLOOD
12
Thread type : LISLE
13
British noble family : EDENS
21
Amphora adjunct : ANSA
22
Adherent : IST
26
Actor Parker : FESS
27
Leave out : OMIT
28
Principle : RULE
29
Gardener's need : HOE
30
" ... ___ not yet": Matt. 24:6 : ENDIS
31
Ethiopian prince : RAS
35
Single quantity : UNIT
36
Like Lady Godiva : NUDE
37
Culture medium : AGAR
39
Gibbon : LAR
41
Mae West's "Life, Sex and ___" : ESP
42
Send up another rocket : RELAUNCH
45
Covered with foam : LATHERY
47
Scottish island : EIGG
50
Where Dub. is : IRE
51
Lady Bird's spouse : LYNDON
52
A job O. Henry had : TELLER
53
Plus factor : ASSET
54
Booth's milieu : STAGE
55
Protect a bet : HEDGE
59
Yaws (the disease) : PIAN
60
An amino acid : DOPA
61
Is in debt : OWES
62
Yorkshire river : AIRE
63
Rational : SANE
67
Carmine : RED

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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