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Michael A. Rampino
Michael A. Rampino

New York Times, Friday, March 23, 1990

15-Across : Government

Author:
Michael A. Rampino
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F J W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 88, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has supersymmetry.
Michael A. Rampino has 33 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,745
Across
1
Mollify : PLACATE
8
Appetizers : CANAPES
15
Government : REGIMEN
16
Milky glass : OPALINE
17
Famous : EMINENT
18
Old soldier : VETERAN
19
Shrewd : CUTE
20
Clocked : TIMED
22
Roof edge : EAVE
23
NOW's goal : ERA
24
Slit : CUT
25
Children's game : TAG
26
Fondles : PETS
28
Yielded : CEDED
30
Melodious Horne : LENA
31
Dangerous African flies : TSETSES
33
Ceases : DESISTS
35
Bern's stream : AAR
36
Chaney of silent films : LON
37
Meanders : RAMBLES
41
Mojave and Gobi : DESERTS
45
You were: Lat. : ERAS
46
Calamary : SQUID
48
Rome's hot fiddler : NERO
49
Truck : VAN
50
Operate : USE
51
Female swan : PEN
52
Down with!: Fr. : ABAS
54
"Divine Comedy" poet : DANTE
56
Satirist Freberg : STAN
57
An archangel : MICHAEL
59
Hermit : EREMITE
61
Capital of Sicily : PALERMO
62
Brook : RIVULET
63
Jogger's footwear : SNEAKER
64
Ushers : SEATERS
Down
1
Rule of conduct : PRECEPT
2
Roman hostile spirits : LEMURES
3
Stir : AGITATE
4
Movie theater, in Madrid : CINE
5
Soul, to Sartre : AME
6
Tupik, e.g. : TENT
7
Emulates Circe : ENTICES
8
Broke a certain Commandment : COVETED
9
Mimicked : APED
10
Pendleton of old films : NAT
11
Opposite of aweather : ALEE
12
Henry Morgan's men : PIRATES
13
Forward!: Fr. : ENAVANT
14
Milkworts' dried roots : SENEGAS
21
Mire : MUD
27
Pierces : STABS
28
Goddess of vegetation : CERES
29
Removed by an editor : DELED
30
Napery : LINEN
32
Salt, to a pharmacist : SAL
34
M'aidez! : SOS
37
Makes over : REVAMPS
38
Kind of horse or camel : ARABIAN
39
Handcuff : MANACLE
40
Wretched condition : SQUALOR
41
Calorie counters : DIETERS
42
Herpetologist's subject : REPTILE
43
One who grabs the tab : TREATER
44
Shakespeare's CLIV : SONNETS
47
Waves' org. : USN
53
N.Y. stadium : SHEA
54
Township of Attica : DEME
55
Weird-sounding lake : ERIE
56
Soot or coal dust : SMUT
58
Broadhorn : ARK
60
Le Gallienne or Gabor : EVA

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1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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