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Ernst Theimer
Ernst Theimer

PLANTED ANTONYMS

New York Times, Sunday, March 30, 1986

27-Across : Char

Author:
Ernst Theimer
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 70, Avg Word Len: 5.30, Missing: { J Z }, Scrabble score: 543 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 126, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
Ernst Theimer has 50 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

*This puzzle was described in the New York Times Magazine's 50 Years of Crossword Puzzles article (published on February 16, 1992) as "What an origami swan is to a folded paper airplane, this puzzle is to the average crossword."

*The 116-Down clue in the PDF did indeed read "___-go-brath." "___-go-bragh" is much more common, though the brath spelling does appear online.

*Theme explanation: A word within each theme answer has been replaced with its opposite. For example, the answer to the 34-Across clue is (GO)T, but "go" gets replaced with "come," making the final answer (COME)T.

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O
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D
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W
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T
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,291
Across
1
Promontory : HEADLAND
9
More secure : SAFER
14
NOT SO FAST : SUPPER
20
Etcher : ENGRAVER
21
LIKE THE HEAVENLY GATES : PLATE
22
A chief city of ancient Corsica : ALERIA
23
Start of a pertinent nursery rhyme : MARYMARYQUITECONTRARY
26
Biblical leader : MOSES
27
Char : BURN
28
Coasted : SLID
29
Contemplates : EYES
30
Aseptic : STERILE
32
Seine sights : ILES
34
OBTAINED : COMET
38
Course : RUN
39
TEMPTRESS : DAMN
42
Feasts, in France : REGALS
47
Arabian gulf : ADEN
48
Some tenses : PASTS
50
Pedal digits : TOES
52
Gem weight : CARAT
53
BURNISH ANEW : DEMOLISH
55
FORESTALLED, FORMERLY : PRODDED
58
Tender : SORE
59
Set apart : ISOLATE
60
___ de menthe : CREME
61
Soil exposing : EROSIVE
63
Faux pas at Reno : MISDEAL
65
Having three feet : TRIPEDAL
66
Involve : ENTAIL
70
Savor again : RETASTE
73
Poetry : VERSES
74
Tidy state : NEATNESS
76
LAPWING : PLUNDER
78
Free : RELEASE
79
Vintage car : ESSEX
81
ASSERTED WITHOUT PROOF : ALARMED
86
Concept : IDEA
87
Trod : STEPPED
89
Breed of white swine : CHESHIRE
90
Shut : CLOSE
92
Body of African warriors : IMPI
93
FIRED : SCOLD
95
Lamb's pen name : ELIA
96
" ... he bowed, ___": Judges 5:27 : HEFELL
98
Kitchen utensils : PANS
100
Cuckoo : ANI
101
Manufacturer : MAKER
102
DISTEND : SILL
104
Restless, musically : AGITATO
107
Charleses' pet : ASTA
111
Anchor : MOOR
113
"Arma virumque ___": Virgil : CANO
114
Courted : WOOED
118
Second line of pertinent rhyme : HOWDOESYOURGARDENGROW
123
SLY : TREATY
124
A Lauder : ESTEE
125
Arboreal border : TREELINE
126
Cubic meters : STERES
127
Peruses : READS
128
Grieved : SADDENED
Down
1
Cloth edging : HEM
2
Hindu land grant : ENAM
3
Soil: Comb. form : AGRO
4
Prohibitionists : DRYS
5
Most claudicant : LAMEST
6
Nautical "stop" : AVAST
7
Saul's uncle: I Samuel 14 : NER
8
Painting method : DRYBRUSH
9
Scramble, in Edinburgh : SPURL
10
Trued : ALINED
11
Obese : FAT
12
Nice hot times : ETES
13
Rested : RECLINED
14
Smoothing device : SANDER
15
Opposite of prox. : ULT
16
A Dumas : PERE
17
Supplicate : PRAY
18
Celt's land : EIRE
19
Beams : RAYS
24
One of the Dionnes : QUINT
25
Lubricate : OIL
31
Deles : ERASES
33
Dry, as wine : SEC
34
Moslem judge : CADI
35
Pindaric creations : ODES
36
Office communication : MEMO
37
Organic compound : ENOL
40
Mighty mite : ATOM
41
Style : MODE
43
Cause of a mirthquake : GASSER
44
Cuckoopints : AROIDS
45
Immature insects : LARVAE
46
Hardens : STEELS
48
Without mercy : PITILESS
49
Pilchard's kin : SPRAT
51
Forecaster : SEER
54
Thin plate : LAMINA
56
Backslide : RELAPSE
57
Talked nonsense : DRIVELED
60
Medium grade : CEE
62
Met fare : OPERAS
64
M.D.'s : DRS
65
Number for Retton : TEN
66
Ornament : ENRICH
67
Acupuncture item : NEEDLE
68
"A ___ Two Cities" : TALEOF
69
Comfortable : ATEASE
71
Pungs : SLEDS
72
Soup and fish : TUX
75
Egyptian king : SETI
77
Showy flower : DAHLIA
79
Baseball Hall of Famer Rixey : EPPA
80
GUSH : SPIN
82
American ostrich : RHEA
83
Exploit : MILK
84
Part of HOMES : ERIE
85
Expensive : DEAR
88
User : EMPLOYER
89
Twists : CONTORTS
91
City RR's : ELS
94
Region in Dante's "Inferno" : CAINA
97
English gobs : LIMEYS
99
Holy : SACRED
101
Round or crescent : MOONED
103
___ Angeles : LOS
105
Pledges : GAGES
106
Woolen fabric : TWEED
107
Canadian Indian group : AHTS
108
Kind : SORT
109
Piping note : TWEE
110
Month after Shebat : ADAR
112
Ascended : ROSE
115
Amorous look : OGLE
116
"___ go brath" : ERIN
117
Over : DONE
119
Capri follower : OTE
120
Western lizard : UTA
121
Cape ___, NW Africa : DRA
122
Married : WED

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 10 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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