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Arthur W. Palmer
Arthur W. Palmer

New York Times, Friday, March 8, 1991

24-Across : Quitting

Author:
Arthur W. Palmer
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Arthur W. Palmer has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,095
Across
1
Guitarist Atkins : CHET
5
Rome, to Caesar : URBS
9
Loathe : HATE
13
A Saarinen : EERO
14
Bathsheba's mate : URIAH
15
Marcuse's "___ and Civilization" : EROS
16
Making harmless : DRAWINGTHEFANGS
19
Corrode : EAT
20
People of intelligence : SPIES
21
Sprang : AROSE
22
Attenuated : THIN
23
Kind of boy : BUS
24
Quitting : DRAWINGONESTIME
32
Charms of sorts : RUNES
33
Time after Mardi Gras : LENT
34
Artfully shy : COY
35
Critic Faure : ELIE
36
Foretold : BODED
38
Beget : SIRE
39
Biog. note for Plutarch : AET
40
Color : TONE
41
Word with head or mint : SPEAR
42
Act more conservatively : DRAWINONESHORNS
46
Oléron or de Ré : ILE
47
Simmons's "Never-Say-___ Book" : DIET
48
Pesky insect : MIDGE
51
Reprove : CHIDE
53
Violinist Bull : OLE
56
Exaggerates : DRAWSTHELONGBOW
59
An anagram for teas : SETA
60
Circe, for one : SIREN
61
Outstanding : AONE
62
Cheese burg : EDAM
63
Termini : ENDS
64
Barasingh or pudu : DEER
Down
1
Give up : CEDE
2
Mother of Ares : HERA
3
Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
4
Drag : TOW
5
Lobbyist's activity : URGING
6
Lavabo, e.g. : RITE
7
Words from Scrooge : BAHS
8
Pronoun for a calico cat : SHE
9
Host at San Simeon : HEARST
10
Late satirical cartoonist : ARNO
11
Outfits : TOGS
12
To be, to Brutus : ESSE
14
Loosen, in a way : UNPIN
17
"A man's house ___ castle": Coke : ISHIS
18
Gounod opera : FAUST
22
Shrill, piping note : TWEE
23
Camber : BEND
24
Terror : DREAD
25
Measuring device : RULER
26
Actress Louise : ANITA
27
Of yore : OLDEN
28
Society-page word : NEE
29
More gelid : ICIER
30
Former tennis star Gussie : MORAN
31
Oglers : EYERS
36
Zygoma, e.g. : BONE
37
Yoko : ONO
38
Item on a calico cat : SPOT
40
Mah-jongg pieces : TILES
41
"Apocalypse Now" actor : SHEEN
43
Brave's home : WIGWAM
44
Officials in old Rome : EDILES
45
Tyre's neighbor : SIDON
48
Goods: Abbr. : MDSE
49
Angered : IRED
50
Computer input : DATA
51
Chatter : CHIN
52
Wrangle : HERD
53
___ da caccia : OBOE
54
Only : LONE
55
Oenochoe : EWER
57
Monogram of Prufrock's creator : TSE
58
Type of fly : GAD

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 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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