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Jean M. Hunt
Jean M. Hunt

New York Times, Thursday, February 7, 1991

36-Across : Comestibles

Author:
Jean M. Hunt
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.76, Missing: { J Q V X }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 59, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6 Grid has duplicate clues.
Jean M. Hunt has 6 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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R
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A
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C
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B
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M
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M
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W
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W
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N
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W
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A
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P
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C
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L
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B
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C
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C
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C
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F
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C
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B
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G
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D
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R
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Z
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D
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,066
Across
1
Bric-a-___ : BRAC
5
Wane : ABATE
10
Tennyson crossed it: 1892 : BAR
13
Injury, to Caesar : MALUM
15
Le Louvre, e.g. : MUSEE
16
Raul Julia TV role : ARI
17
Money : WHEREWITHAL
19
She wrote "Solar Barque" : NIN
20
Ridicule : ROAST
21
Aroused : WAKED
23
One does this with money : SPENDS
25
Fossil resin : COPAL
26
Makes reparation : ATONES
27
Visigoth king : ALARIC
29
Winter pear : BOSC
30
Gorge : CHASM
31
Dernier ___ : CRI
34
Type of chair : EASY
35
A 1929 event involving money : CRASH
36
Comestibles : FOOD
37
Line on an A.A.A. map : RTE
38
Soothing word : THERE
39
York river : OUSE
40
Tirade : SCREED
42
Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1931 : BARNES
44
"___ in the Dark," 1964 film : ASHOT
45
Singers Bonnie and John : RAITTS
46
Mirador : ORIEL
47
Doughboy's ally : POILU
48
Half brother of William I : ODO
49
Money : LEGALTENDER
55
Buddhist sect : ZEN
56
Happify : ELATE
57
American Revolutionary patriot : DEANE
58
Abstract being : ENS
59
Liturgies : RITES
60
One-horse carriage : SHAY
Down
1
Yuppie's auto : BMW
2
Fall call : RAH
3
Pub potable : ALE
4
Money : CURRENCY
5
Wrong : AMISS
6
Target : BUTT
7
Tree of the olive family : ASH
8
Type of bag : TEA
9
A nematode : EELWORM
10
Money : BANKACCOUNT
11
A satellite of Uranus : ARIEL
12
Peel : RIND
14
"Give ___ Hour": Friml : MEONE
18
Large sums of money : WADS
22
Bee: Comb. form : API
23
Ermine in summer : STOAT
24
Money, etc. : POSSESSIONS
25
Money : CASH
26
But, in Bonn : ABER
27
Beatles' "___ Day's Night" : AHARD
28
Emit amplified light : LASE
30
Canadian Indian : CREE
32
Gilroy's "Subject" : ROSES
33
Fishy date? : IDES
35
Lemon operating in Detroit : CHET
36
Masses of money : FORTUNES
38
Piscatory rover : TROLLER
41
Role in "Evita" : CHE
42
Lure : BAIT
43
Had the flu : AILED
44
She was Miss Brooks : ARDEN
45
Romeo and Juliet, e.g. : ROLES
46
Seep : OOZE
47
Ceramist's paste : PATE
50
Samuel's mentor : ELI
51
Ship's channel : GAT
52
Burmese knife : DAH
53
Queen before Sophia : ENA
54
Juan Carlos I, e.g. : REY

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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