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Ronald C. Hirschfeld
Ronald C. Hirschfeld

New York Times, Thursday, February 25, 1993

33-Across : Soprano Trentini

Author:
Ronald C. Hirschfeld
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q W X }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Ronald C. Hirschfeld has 25 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,815
Across
1
Judge : DEEM
5
Serene : CALM
9
___ Rouge, Cambodian guerrilla : KHMER
14
Precipice part : EDGE
15
Olive genus : OLEA
16
Kent portrayer : REEVE
17
Lilly Daché's métier : MILLINERY
19
Immigrant's island : ELLIS
20
Marine fish : SEABASS
21
Produce an egg : OVULATE
23
One-billionth: Comb. form : NANO
24
Tizzy : SNIT
25
Natalie's singing father : NAT
26
Q-U connection : RST
28
Adulate : LIONIZE
31
Fetid : OLID
33
Soprano Trentini : EMMA
34
"Sweeney ___": T. S. Eliot : ERECT
38
City on the site of ancient Carthage : TUNIS
40
Designer of the J.F.K. Library : PEI
41
Conductor Erno ___ : RAPEE
42
Cockscomb : CREST
43
___ Bud, Dickens heroine : ROSA
45
Its field once had a Strawberry : SHEA
46
Cheat : COZENER
48
This opens sesame : ESS
49
Micmac's cousin : SAC
52
___-majesté : LESE
53
Call : TERM
56
Catherine the Great, for one : TSARINA
58
"The Pearl ___," Bizet opera : FISHERS
61
Intended : AIMED
62
Falstaff, for one : ROISTERER
64
Utopian : IDEAL
65
Part of M.I.T. : INST
66
Cantina snack : TACO
67
On deck : READY
68
A classic race at Epsom Downs : OAKS
69
Vietnamese holidays : TETS
Down
1
Some F.O.B.'s : DEMS
2
Ernie K.'s widow : EDIE
3
Sweetbrier : EGLANTINE
4
Soprano to be toasted? : MELBA
5
Organ part : CONSOLE
6
City in S France : ALES
7
Celtic Neptune : LER
8
Thick dressing : MAYONNAISE
9
Beethoven's "___ Sonata" : KREUTZER
10
Thing sometimes given or caught : HELL
11
Black: Comb. form : MELAN
12
LuPone role : EVITA
13
Transplant : RESET
18
John, to Jock : IAN
22
Lucky Roman number : VII
24
"___ to Watch Over Me," Gershwin song : SOMEONE
26
Campus mil. group : ROTC
27
Disparage : SLUR
29
Hurok was one : IMPRESARIO
30
Epochs : ERAS
32
CD, for one : DISC
35
Mayflies, e.g. : EPHEMERAE
36
So-so grades : CEES
37
Cachar and bancha : TEAS
39
In a phlegmatic way : STOLIDLY
44
Hopper and Turner : ARTISTS
47
Japanese Buddhist sect : ZEN
49
Ship's companionway : STAIR
50
Place for kidding? : ASIDE
51
___ cropper (failed) : CAMEA
54
Superlative suffix : EST
55
Butler at Tara : RHETT
57
Peruse : READ
58
Carlton of baseball : FISK
59
Straight: Comb. form : RECT
60
Angels' delights : SROS
63
___ shoestring : ONA

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

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