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Eileen Lexau
Eileen Lexau

New York Times, Tuesday, March 29, 1988

48-Across : Houston team

Author:
Eileen Lexau
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 43, Avg Word Len: 4.67, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 257 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 60, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 9, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Eileen Lexau has 17 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 10 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,021
Across
1
Basic things : ABCS
5
British pokey : GAOL
9
Noncom : SGT
12
Actor Calhoun : RORY
13
Roman courts : ATRIA
15
Hun leader : ATLI
16
Act to impress the audience : GRANDSTAND
18
This may be proper : NOUN
19
Income's opposite : OUTGO
20
British princess : ANNE
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Angel, in Paris : ANGE
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Be mistaken : ERR
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"Do not go ___ ... ": D. Thomas : GENTLE
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Small untruth : FIB
29
Sacred composition : MOTET
31
Spats : ROWS
33
Black cuckoo : ANI
34
___ Vegas : LAS
35
Papal envoy : LEGATE
37
Small sailing ship : CARAVEL
40
Bothered : HASSLED
41
Invests : ENDUES
42
___ capita : PER
43
Journey unit : LEG
44
Norse poem : EDDA
45
About : CIRCA
47
Shakespearean sot : SLY
48
Houston team : OILERS
50
Dress edge : HEM
52
Er ___ (he says): Ger. : SAGT
54
After: Prefix : META
56
Marx Brothers' "A Day at the ___" : RACES
60
"Picnic" playwright : INGE
61
Holds a second job : MOONLIGHTS
63
Told a 26 Across : LIED
64
Metal mixture : ALLOY
65
Castle defense : MOAT
66
Ancient : OLD
67
Anglo-Saxon laborer : ESNE
68
Cobblers' tools : AWLS
Down
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Jason's ship : ARGO
2
Brian ___, a king of Ireland : BORU
3
Auto, Dixie or demo follower : CRAT
4
Irish playwright : SYNGE
5
Highway sign : GAS
6
"___ boy!" : ATTA
7
"The Love for Three ___": Prokofiev : ORANGES
8
Old World songbird : LINNET
9
Blocks or stalls intentionally : STONEWALLS
10
Gurgle's cousin : GLUG
11
Prong : TINE
14
Arabian gulf : ADEN
15
Parallels : ANALOGS
17
College bldg. : DORM
23
Parts : ROLES
25
Very, in Rouen : TRES
26
Confront : FACE
27
Silly : INANE
28
Watched closely : BIRDDOGGED
30
Soviet chess master : TAL
32
Harden : STEEL
35
Tamarack, e.g. : LARCH
36
On tenterhooks : EDGY
38
Checked for fiscal compliance : AUDITED
39
Cutlet meat : VEAL
40
"Take ___, She's Mine," 1961 Broadway hit : HER
42
Duelists' choice : PISTOLS
45
La. patois : CREOLE
46
Air: Comb. form : AERI
49
Austen heroine : EMMA
51
Hot stuff in the earth : MAGMA
52
Farm structure : SILO
53
Indigo : ANIL
55
Soon : ANON
57
Army food : CHOW
58
Inclusive abbr. : ETAL
59
Fast planes : SSTS
62
Soap ingredient : LYE

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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