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Donald V. Lee II
Donald V. Lee II

O, NO!

New York Times, Sunday, April 30, 1989

11-Across : Complete defeats

Author:
Donald V. Lee II
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 142, Blocks: 71, Avg Word Len: 5.21, Missing: { J O Q Z }, Scrabble score: 578 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 132, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 73
Donald V. Lee II has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,418
Across
1
Arethusas, e.g. : RCHIDS
7
Calif. white oak : RBLE
11
Complete defeats : RUTS
15
Carp-family member : DACE
19
Gone up : ARISEN
20
In ___ (bogged down) : ARUT
21
Rung : STEP
22
Insect stage : IMAG
23
Without trouble or difficulty : CNVENIENTLY
25
Puccini heroine : TSCA
26
Informed on : SANG
27
Glance askance : LEER
28
Anglo-Saxon dialect : NRTHUMBRIAN
30
Ala. commodity : CTTN
31
Irregularly notched : ERSE
32
Sets free : LSES
33
Plumbism : LEADPISNING
35
Uttered : SAID
36
Variegated chalcedony : AGATE
37
Dobbin's fare : ATS
38
Foster's "De ___ Races" : CAMPTWN
42
English draft horse : SHIRE
43
Kind of table : DRPLEAF
47
Arabian gazelles : ARIELS
48
Fen : MARSH
49
Overwhelm : FLD
50
Plant angle : AXIL
51
Suppose : RECKN
52
Inborn : CNNATURAL
54
Actor Timothy or Joseph : BTTMS
55
Precious, in a way : RARE
56
Sapience : WISDM
57
Uses an exit : GES
58
Paravane : TTER
59
Fling about : TSS
60
Overalls fabric : DENIM
61
One of the Seven Wonders : PHARS
63
Emulates Hirt : TTS
66
Shoppers' considerations : CSTS
68
Tomcat : GIB
70
Hirsute : HAIRY
71
Fabulist : LIAR
72
Heisman, e.g. : TRPHY
74
Tantrums : CNNIPTINS
76
Algonquian spirit : MANIT
77
Huge land mass : ASIA
78
Crowd response : RAR
79
Cringes with fear : CWERS
80
Michelangelo to Lorenzo : PRTEGE
81
Greffier or chartulary : RECRDER
83
Opposite of 12 Down : INDRS
84
Intersection : CRSSRAD
85
Cartel acronym : PEC
86
Gauntlets : GLVES
87
Glyph : GRVE
88
Maypop : PASSINFLWER
92
S European liquor : RAKI
93
"G.W.T.W." locale : TARA
97
Period : EPCH
98
Ruined photographs : VEREXPSURES
100
Rank between family and class : RDER
101
Type of bean or horse : PINT
102
Devil's delight : EVIL
103
Absolute : UNCNDITINAL
105
Tatting output : LACE
106
Actress-singer Carter : NELL
107
Bogus : FAKE
108
Midday : NNTIDE
109
January, in Ibiza : ENER
110
You are, in Mexico : ERES
111
Jack or Robert : FRST
112
Sight, touch and taste : SENSES
Down
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Sibyl : RACLE
2
Tree : CRNER
3
Urticaria : HIVES
4
French river or department : ISERE
5
"___ Indolence": Keats : DEN
6
Belonging to a relative by marriage : SNINLAWS
7
Declaimed violently : RANTED
8
Stocks : BRTHS
9
Oner : LULU
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Linguistics expert : ETYMLGIST
11
Beaked : RSTRATE
12
Alfresco : UTSIDE
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Shoe part : TECAP
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Cervantes or Velázquez : SPANIARD
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Melancholy : DISCNSLATE
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Nicolo of Cremona : AMATI
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Swiss district : CANTN
18
Seasonal beverage : EGGNG
24
Abrading action : ERSIN
29
Chicago embrace? : BEARHUG
34
Condescend : STP
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Runner or rhizome : STLN
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Al ___, Cairo newspaper : AHRAM
38
Plant of the parsley family : CARRT
39
Neighborhoods : AREAS
40
Of minute proportions : MICRSCPIC
41
Indian tea : PEKE
42
Largest of the Tremiti Islands : SANDMIN
43
Raggedy Ann or Andy : DLL
44
Kidnapper, e.g. : EXTRTINER
45
Aspire : AIM
46
Type of gold or paradise : FLS
48
Roman Catholic title : MNSIGNR
49
They go in one era and out the other : FASHINS
52
Numismatic unit : CIN
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Amends : REPAIRS
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Fires; axes : BTS
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Is indebted : WES
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Reactionary : TRY
60
Weak-minded, in Dixie : DTY
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Gig implements : ARS
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Siberian forests : TAIGA
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Classified : SRTED
67
Marksman : SHARPSHTER
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Like some lenses : BICNVEX
70
Owls : HTERS
71
Former monetary units of Riga : LATS
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Poi base : TAR
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Abie's beloved : RSE
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Box chaser : CAR
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Makeup applicator : PWDERPUFF
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Type of code : MRSE
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Assemble anew : RECNVENE
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Legal clauses : PRVISINS
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___ gratia : DEI
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Sights around Tulsa : ILWELLS
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Awry : CRKED
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Nimbus : GLRILE
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January birthstone : GARNET
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Streisand hit : PEPLE
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Relating to bees : APIAN
90
Bracket for candles : SCNCE
91
Peggy Lee hit : FEVER
92
Wrinkles or large numbers : RUCKS
93
Conch-shell blowing demigod : TRITN
94
Male dreamboat : ADNIS
95
Aptly named novelist : READE
96
Kingdom of Burgundy, once : ARLES
99
Naut. detection apparatus : SNAR
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Part of a chord : TNE

Answer summary:
72 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 9 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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