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Virginia L. Yates
Virginia L. Yates

New York Times, Tuesday, March 12, 1991

46-Across : Rock group that included J. Osborne

Author:
Virginia L. Yates
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 5.17, Missing: { J Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 262 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 60, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Virginia L. Yates has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,099
Across
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Hollywood and truckle : BEDS
5
Surface for Gretzky : ICE
8
Disposition : MIEN
12
Prototypical film : PILOT
13
With no holds barred : DOGEATDOG
16
"There lived ___ in days of yore": Thackeray : ASAGE
17
Bordering : ALONGSIDE
18
Swing, for one : SHIFT
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Suffix with Brooklyn : ITE
20
A high old time : FUN
21
Writers Morrison and Bambara : TONIS
22
Uzbek or Tadzhik: Abbr. : SSR
23
Infant or tact ender : ILE
24
Take down ___ or two : APEG
25
Machinist's pin : COTTER
28
Portable bed : COT
29
Resumé reader : HIRER
31
Hangs in there : COPES
33
On the carpet : INTHEDOGHOUSE
36
Actress Strasberg : SUSAN
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Strong wrapping paper : KRAFT
38
Male gypsy : ROM
39
Apostatize : DESERT
41
Surfeit : SATE
45
Comedian Olsen : OLE
46
Rock group that included J. Osborne : LTD
47
South African leader: 1862-1919 : BOTHA
48
Trireme propellant : OAR
49
Rita's Khan : ALY
50
Put in the minutes : ENTER
51
Dumbfounded : STAGGERED
55
"Once upon ___ ... " : ATIME
56
Where things sometimes go : TOTHEDOGS
57
Bit of evidence : SHRED
58
Actress Kate of "Atlantic City" : REID
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Catch a monarch : NET
60
Snead's needs : TEES
Down
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Chess piece : BISHOP
2
A versatile May : ELAINE
3
Von Richthofen's encounters : DOGFIGHTS
4
Dele deleters : STETS
5
Gilbertian princess : IDA
6
High pass : COL
7
I specialist : EGOIST
8
"Le ___," Massenet opera : MAGE
9
Part of T.G.I.F. : ITS
10
Architects' products : EDIFICES
11
Lumpy : NODULOSE
12
Ziti or vermicelli : PASTA
14
Baryshnikov leap : ENTRECHAT
15
Civet's cousin : GENET
22
Rubbed gently : STROKED
25
Notched, as a battlement : CRENELLED
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Brit. lexicon : OED
27
Highest part : ROOF
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"If ___ a Hammer" : IHAD
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___ dog (acts the swell) : PUTSONTHE
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One who quarantines : ISOLATOR
34
Count noses : NUMERATE
35
Guard dog's comment : GRR
38
High perch : ROOST
40
He wrote "Sophie's Choice" : STYRON
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Finery : ATTIRE
43
Subjects : THEMES
44
Like some pitchers : EARED
47
Beauty's admirer : BEAST
49
Mellow, as wine : AGED
52
Alphabet run : GHI
53
Actress Julie from Norway : EGE
54
It ends end of Oct. : DST

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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