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Nikki Tenfelde
Nikki Tenfelde

New York Times, Tuesday, February 16, 1982

25-Across : Finch or shrike

Author:
Nikki Tenfelde
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Nikki Tenfelde has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,788
Across
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Horned vipers : ASPS
5
Catamount : PUMA
9
Plant of the violet family : PANSY
14
Machete : BOLO
15
Once more : ANEW
16
Run away with a lover : ELOPE
17
A cheese center : EDAM
18
___ of passage : RITE
19
Footing for Fabius : TERRA
20
Mangle : LACERATE
22
Give goods for goods : BARTER
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An exercise for Rubinstein : ETUDE
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Made of baked clay : EARTHEN
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Finch or shrike : OSCINE
27
Framework of parallel bars : GRID
28
Coup for Goren : SLAM
29
Thin, icy coating : SLEET
31
Become less reserved : THAW
35
Withered : SERE
36
Business abbr. : INC
37
Duplicate : REDO
38
Combines to form a sum : ADDS
39
Human's tube : AORTA
41
Exploiter : USER
42
Grieve : PINE
43
Jog the memory : REMIND
45
Some advertisements : SPREADS
49
Moved at a snail's pace : CREPT
50
Graze with a bullet : CREASE
51
Worldly wiseacre : COOLCARD
54
Criticize : ROAST
55
Godlike : HOLY
56
Indonesian quadruped : ANOA
57
Subordinate to : UNDER
58
Countertenor : ALTO
59
An air arm in N.A. : RCAF
60
Disordered : MESSY
61
What a priest says : MASS
62
Impression : DENT
Down
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W. H. Hudson hero : ABEL
2
Order given in an old parlor : SODA
3
Identification at a banquet : PLACECARD
4
On and off : SOMETIMES
5
Spectacles : PARADES
6
Come together : UNITE
7
Apportion : METE
8
Bowl over a protégé : AWE
9
Old explosive device : PETARD
10
On the qui vive : ALERT
11
British P.M.: 1770-82 : NORTH
12
Extravagant occasion : SPREE
13
Hanker : YEARN
21
Emulate Updike's Rabbit : RUN
22
Attraction : BAIT
24
Assemble : ERECT
25
Greek peak : OSSA
26
Cart on runners : SLED
27
Class : GENRE
30
Denizens of the Silverdome : LIONS
31
Kin of an ace in the hole : TRUMPCARD
32
Hamlet's problem : HESITANCE
33
Former British colony : ADEN
34
Brief remark : WORD
39
Officer of a sort : AIDE
40
Dry gullies : ARROYOS
42
Pandowdy, e.g. : PASTRY
44
Conger : EEL
45
Rugby term : SCRUM
46
Groveling : PRONE
47
Comprehends written material : READS
48
Alleviates : EASES
49
They need breaking in : COLTS
51
Carbonated beverage : COLA
52
Barbary ___, favorite horse of Richard II : ROAN
53
Foolish : DAFT
55
Inferior actor : HAM

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1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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