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Rhonda Kraus
Rhonda Kraus

New York Times, Saturday, April 28, 1990

21-Across : Containing a flintlike rock

Author:
Rhonda Kraus
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { F J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Rhonda Kraus has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,781
Across
1
Soothing lotion : BALM
5
Probe : TEST
9
Church recess : APSE
13
Count : ENUMERATE
15
Coolidge and Tushingham : RITAS
17
Possessing heavenly qualities : ANGELICAL
18
Cut drastically : SLASH
19
Strange purchase : TEE
20
City in Germany : LAHR
21
Containing a flintlike rock : CHERTY
22
Resti ___ cibo (Italian leftovers) : DEL
23
Star in the Greater Dog : SIRIUS
25
Moods : HUMORS
28
Long Island college : ADELPHI
30
Keyboard wood : EBONY
31
Memo : NOTE
32
Conductor de Waart : EDO
34
Zero, to Cash : LOVE
35
Confuse : ADDLE
37
Knitting stitch : SLIP
38
Actress Zetterling : MAI
39
Antony's friend in Egypt : EROS
40
Apportion : ALLOT
41
Shakespeare's "The ___" : TEMPEST
43
Parts of pandowdies : CRUSTS
44
Fishing boat : SEINER
45
Fortify : ARM
46
Do some sleuthing : DETECT
48
Actress Skye : IONE
50
Chit : IOU
53
Undo : ERASE
54
Events in eastern Europe: 1989 : UPRISINGS
56
Femme fatale : SIREN
57
Came back in : REENTERED
58
Chimney on das Haus : ESSE
59
Key's cousin : ISLE
60
Titubate : REEL
Down
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Bushed : BEAT
2
Author Tyler : ANNE
3
Winter Olympics event : LUGE
4
Mrs., in Marseille : MME
5
Job suffered many of these : TRIALS
6
Every one : EACH
7
A E F newspaper, in France: 1918 : STARSANDSTRIPES
8
Hill, to an Arab : TEL
9
Abstract Expressionist Gorky : ARSHILE
10
Amass : PILEUP
11
Projectiles illuminating enemy positions : STARSHELLS
12
___ Ham, London suburb : EAST
14
First name of Nikki Porter's boss : ELLERY
16
Timid : SHY
21
Island of the Minotaur : CRETE
22
Over : DONE
24
Adored one : IDOL
25
Ship's wheel : HELM
26
Tirpitz's menace: 1915 : UBOAT
27
Shearer and Woolley, once : MOVIESTARS
29
___ box (TV) : IDIOT
33
Chooses : OPTS
35
Common contraction : ARENT
36
Medicine measure : DOSE
37
Rundown area : SLUM
39
Flaccid : EPICENE
40
Stop : ARREST
42
Former U.S. Attorney General and family : MEESES
43
Hershfield's "Rubber, the ___ Cop" : CANINE
46
Ecole ___ Beaux-Arts : DES
47
Fourth of HOMES : ERIE
49
Pitcher Hershiser : OREL
50
Regarding : INRE
51
Gula : OGEE
52
Frances Perkins's D C sphere : USDL
54
Israeli psychic Geller : URI
55
Comparative ending : IER

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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