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Nikki Tenfelde
Nikki Tenfelde

New York Times, Friday, February 5, 1982

37-Across : Senator from Nebraska

Author:
Nikki Tenfelde
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F Q }, Scrabble score: 302 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Nikki Tenfelde has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,777
Across
1
British informer or speculator : STAG
5
Guide at Uxmal : MAYA
9
Golden Gate and Verrazano : SPANS
14
Gloriole : HALO
15
Symbol of ill luck : OPAL
16
Fungus : ERGOT
17
Fascist alliance : AXIS
18
Pet of the Darlings : NANA
19
Lariat : RIATA
20
Machine-shop frame : DIESTOCK
22
His payment is sometimes controlled : RENTER
23
Amy, to Billy : NIECE
24
Tournament : CONTEST
25
Private place of worship : CHAPEL
27
Paraguay tea : MATE
28
Bear ill will : HATE
29
Uplift : ELATE
31
Ecological series of stages : SERE
35
___ and anon : EVER
36
Heart of a hurricane : EYE
37
Senator from Nebraska : EXON
38
Consummates an engagement : WEDS
39
Football official: Slang : ZEBRA
41
Lhasa ___, Tibetan dog : APSO
42
Hope offering : JOKE
43
Items used in securing anchors : CABLES
45
Tivoli ___ : GARDENS
49
Former elder statesmen of Japan : GENRO
50
Melodic : ARIOSE
51
Joins a group rudely and abruptly : BARGESIN
54
Blue pigment : SMALT
55
Football's Crimson Tide : BAMA
56
Name of a republic: 1937-49 : EIRE
57
Coppers for Copperfield : PENCE
58
Module : UNIT
59
Where the public views gnus : ZOOS
60
Journalize : ENTER
61
Fowler or Wilder : GENE
62
Austria's first chartered city: 1212 : ENNS
Down
1
Herring's relative : SHAD
2
Hack : TAXI
3
Estranged : ALIENATED
4
They "dish the dirt" : GOSSIPERS
5
Optician's infrequent sale : MONOCLE
6
On the run : APACE
7
O'Neill hero : YANK
8
___ créole : ALA
9
Cool as a cucumber : SERENE
10
Impression : PRINT
11
Type of type : AGATE
12
Certificates : NOTES
13
Point of departure : START
21
Golf accessory : TEE
22
Learning by heart : ROTE
24
Provide victuals : CATER
25
Masticate : CHEW
26
Possess : HAVE
27
Perchance : MAYBE
30
Emblems of Wales : LEEKS
31
Cape Cod cooler : SEABREEZE
32
Emotional outburst : EXPLOSION
33
Emblem of England : ROSE
34
"Gashouse Gang" first name : ENOS
39
Time ___ : ZONE
40
Needle-shaped : ACERATE
42
Court fool : JESTER
44
Sharp-cornered: Abbr. : ANG
45
Canadian peninsula : GASPE
46
Kay of "Stop the Music" : ARMEN
47
Cheerful : RIANT
48
"La ___ Vita" : DOLCE
49
Ragamuffin : GAMIN
51
Cause of ruin : BANE
52
Cruel : IRON
53
Robert Stack role : NESS
55
Thrips, e.g. : BUG

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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