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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

New York Times, Saturday, February 16, 1991

28-Across : Bigwigs

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.62, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 8, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,075
Across
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Sandy beach : PLAGE
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Freebies : PASSES
12
Dancer Pearl ___ : PRIMUS
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Chanteuse, e.g. : ARTISTE
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World Series team: 1975 : THEBOSTONREDSOX
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Kind of blank : ORDER
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"Toilers of the Sea" painter : RYDER
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"___ tu," Verdi aria : ERI
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Road lead-in : RAIL
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Attacks : HASAT
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" ... with the blue ribbons ___" : ONIT
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Dos Passos work : USA
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Goes on a diet : BANTS
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Canadian Indians : CREES
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Fabric feature : SELVEDGE
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Bigwigs : BRASS
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Construe : INTERPRET
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Kin of lotto : BEANO
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Commandments : PRECEPTS
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Greek legislative assembly : BOULE
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Like a gale : BLOWY
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"Where—where slept thine ___": Keats : IRE
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Echidna fare : ANTS
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Serb and Croat : SLAVS
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Frown or scowl : LOUR
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Third-rate grade : CEE
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Glide or soar : PLANE
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Animals of a region : FAUNA
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Slugger for 15 Across : CARLYASTRZEMSKI
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"Be thou ___ of health ... ": Hamlet : ASPIRIT
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Climbing peppers : BETELS
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Mount Saint ___, Wash. : HELENS
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Entangling; insidious : SNARY
Down
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Landed : PREDIAL
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Freedom-of-speech limit : LIBEL
3
Valentine figure : AMOR
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NASA's Grissom : GUS
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Keep apart : ESTRANGE
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Washington Zoo pair : PANDAS
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Fiat cousin : ARRET
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Trick finish : STER
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Tom Sawyer's half brother : SID
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Scroll scribes : ESSENES
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Lardner products : STORIES
12
Part of many a sentence : PHRASE
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Beltway signs : EXITS
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Doughnut, for one : TORUS
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Salsify : OYSTERPLANT
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"It ___ Be You," 1924 song : HADTO
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Be grandiloquent : ORATE
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Sesame : BENNE
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Where the longbow prevailed : CRECY
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Perfumery packaging : VIALS
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Concocts : BREWS
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Old Testament book : PROVERBS
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Pottery material : BONEASH
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Her symbol was a flute : EUTERPE
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In a devout way : PIOUSLY
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Baggage : TRUNKS
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Turkish inn : SERAI
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Any grape, banana, etc. : BACCA
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Denounces : BLASTS
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Done in : SLAIN
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Debussy opus : LAMER
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This stack'll crackle : PYRE
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Greek goat cheese : FETA
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Diamond ___ : LIL
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Form of Buddhism : ZEN

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 8 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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