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Christopher Page
Christopher Page

New York Times, Wednesday, March 13, 1991

20-Across : "Winner takes ___"

Author:
Christopher Page
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { G J Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Christopher Page has 9 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 8 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,100
Across
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Played craps : DICED
6
Whitney or Wallach : ELI
9
Fictional salesman : LOMAN
14
Merman or Waters : ETHEL
15
Staff : MAN
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Teed off : IRATE
17
Area of authority : BAILIWICK
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Muster : RAISE
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"Winner takes ___" : ALL
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A Redgrave : VANESSA
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Conducted : LED
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Grain and liquor : RYES
26
Yellow jacket : VESPA
27
Guy : STAY
28
Earl of Avon : EDEN
30
Part of a trawler's gear : OTTER
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Most firmly secured : FASTEST
35
Patio's cousin : TERRACE
38
Cowboy's need : RIATA
39
Heavenly hunter : ORION
40
Meara's partner : STILLER
43
First-aid items : SPLINTS
45
"___ entertain you" : LETME
46
Chaucer product : TALE
47
Circumference parts : ARCS
49
Specialist among builders : MASON
51
Aswan and Kariba : DAMS
55
Gallic gala : BAL
56
Cab or horse : HACKNEY
58
Wagner's "___ Walküre" : DIE
59
On : ABOVE
61
Storm pellet : HAILSTONE
63
Spud : TATER
64
Savoie's summer : ETE
65
Sinned : ERRED
66
Chloroform's cousin : ETHER
67
German article : DER
68
Parings : RINDS
Down
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Interdict : DEBAR
2
A neighbor of Austria : ITALY
3
Santiago is its capital : CHILE
4
Moray : EEL
5
Year in Justinian I's reign : DLIV
6
Highly regarded : EMINENT
7
Ties : LACES
8
Ivory Watson or Charlie Fuqua, e.g. : INKSPOT
9
Vatican City coin : LIRA
10
"___ pro nobis" : ORA
11
Holdup target of the old West : MAILTRAIN
12
Confused : ATSEA
13
Indigent : NEEDY
18
Undulations : WAVES
22
Stuff : SATE
25
Arbitrates successfully : SETTLES
27
Compact : SERRIED
29
Ran a blackjack game : DEALT
31
Fish with a towed line : TROLL
32
Monastery gp. : FRS
33
Small island : AIT
34
Mizzen material : SAILCLOTH
36
Fingerstall : COT
37
U.S.N.A. grad. : ENS
41
Madame Bovary : EMMA
42
Got to : REACHED
43
More unfeeling : STONIER
44
Type of truck : PANEL
47
Ease up : ABATE
48
Moroccan capital : RABAT
50
Emulate Dorothy Hamill : SKATE
52
Beautify : ADORN
53
Accessed ore : MINED
54
Origins : SEEDS
56
Mister, in Munich : HERR
57
Belgian flower : YSER
60
Churchill's sign : VEE
62
Prefix with corn or color : TRI

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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