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Kenneth Witte
Kenneth Witte

New York Times, Saturday, April 19, 1986

16-Across : Neapolitan's knot

Author:
Kenneth Witte
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Kenneth Witte has 30 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,311
Across
1
Woman's work basket : CABA
5
Meccawee, e.g. : ASIAN
10
Menhaden's cousin : SHAD
14
Quatrain scheme : ABAB
15
Doc Adams of "Gunsmoke" : STONE
16
Neapolitan's knot : NODO
17
___ someone's eyes (deceive) : PULLTHEWOOLOVER
20
Book by Adelaide Bry: 1976 : EST
21
Pop singer Billy : OCEAN
22
Manuscript daggers : OBELI
23
Of an earthquake : SEISMAL
25
Dark furs : SABLES
26
Lament : MOAN
27
Pungent : SALTY
29
Milne character : POOH
31
A branch of Islam : SHIAH
32
"Whiffenpoof" sound : BAA
35
Deceive : THROWACURVEBALL
39
Wooden form, in archeology : AME
40
Type of ant : ALATE
41
Turkish regiment : ALAI
42
Tantara : BLARE
43
Bromidic : DULL
45
Autry's team : ANGELS
48
Still : DORMANT
51
Swedish seaport : MALMO
52
Lesbos marketplace : AGORA
54
Dash for Sparks : DAH
55
Hidden asset : ACEUPONESSLEEVE
58
Charmian's co-attendant : IRAS
59
Talus or pebble : SCREE
60
Kind of shift : GEAR
61
North Sea feeder : NENE
62
Mean : SEEDY
63
Chaplet atop Ivanhoe : ORLE
Down
1
Sontags : CAPES
2
Obloquy : ABUSE
3
The Monumental City : BALTIMORE
4
Lat. case : ABL
5
Artists' ___ School: 1908 : ASHCAN
6
She wrote "Season of Passion" : STEEL
7
Herbert Hoover's state : IOWA
8
Shortly : ANON
9
Modernist : NEO
10
Feeling smugly superior : SNOBBY
11
Uncle Tom's cabin : HOVEL
12
Fashion designer Simpson : ADELE
13
Mother of the Nereids : DORIS
18
TV role for Tony Musante : TOMA
19
Hate : LOATHE
24
Where Dryden lived : SOHO
25
Croat or Czech : SLAV
27
"On the Beach" author : SHUTE
28
Leeds's river : AIRE
29
School org. : PTA
30
German physicist : OHM
31
Parrot fish : SCAR
32
Manilow is one : BALLADEER
33
___ Dag, Turkish peak : ALA
34
Baba or Pasha : ALI
36
What Louis packed : WALLOP
37
End of a Stein line : ALAS
38
Ointment : BALM
42
Muddle : BEMUSE
43
Arnold ___ (E. Humperdinck) : DORSEY
44
Russia's ___ Mountains : URAL
45
Greatly : AMAIN
46
Button material : NACRE
47
Gather slowly : GLEAN
48
Administered medicine : DOSED
49
Kind of engagement : NAVAL
50
Soothing word : THERE
52
Suffix with suffer : ANCE
53
"An Officer and a Gentleman" star : GERE
56
C.I.A. precursor : OSS
57
Type of trip : EGO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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