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Christopher Sherwood
Christopher Sherwood

New York Times, Wednesday, April 8, 1987

49-Across : Down in the ___ (sad)

Author:
Christopher Sherwood
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.64, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 57, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Christopher Sherwood has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1
G
2
L
3
I
4
B
5
A
6
M
7
A
8
S
9
A
10
C
11
M
12
E
13
R
A
V
E
14
P
E
S
O
15
R
H
E
A
16
O
R
A
N
17
G
18
E
B
O
W
L
19
M
E
E
T
20
W
A
N
D
E
R
21
W
A
D
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I
R
K
S
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A
I
24
D
25
N
I
26
G
E
R
27
C
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A
29
B
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E
R
N
E
31
T
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E
A
S
Y
33
H
U
L
L
S
34
M
O
35
O
R
S
36
B
37
A
38
D
39
A
R
I
L
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C
O
W
L
S
41
T
O
G
O
42
W
A
N
43
H
O
N
E
D
44
C
A
M
E
O
45
D
46
R
A
M
47
R
E
48
M
E
M
B
E
R
49
D
U
M
P
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S
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R
I
D
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G
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R
A
M
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O
W
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L
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N
A
57
S
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S
59
A
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U
61
A
U
T
O
62
S
O
U
63
R
G
R
A
P
E
S
64
U
S
E
R
65
E
R
T
E
66
G
A
R
S
67
L
E
S
S
68
R
E
E
D
69
O
D
O
R
© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,665
Across
1
Superficially fluent : GLIB
5
Japanese pearl divers : AMAS
9
Zenith : ACME
13
A kind of review : RAVE
14
Monterrey money : PESO
15
Actress Perlman : RHEA
16
Dolphins' playground : ORANGEBOWL
19
Track and field tournament : MEET
20
Vagabondize : WANDER
21
Lump : WAD
22
Raises ire : IRKS
23
What paracletes do : AID
25
African river or land : NIGER
27
Dry table wine : CABERNET
32
Like Riley's life style : EASY
33
Coverings of nuts : HULLS
34
Drops anchor : MOORS
36
___ Homburg, W. German spa : BAD
39
Integument : ARIL
40
Monastery garb : COWLS
41
Land east of Ghana : TOGO
42
Pallid : WAN
43
Made sharp : HONED
44
Portrait-bearing gem : CAMEO
45
A serving of grog or rum : DRAM
47
Berlin song : REMEMBER
49
Down in the ___ (sad) : DUMPS
51
Do away with : RID
52
Metric measure : GRAM
54
Nocturnal hunter : OWL
56
Bahamian port : NASSAU
61
Prefix with biography : AUTO
62
Have-not's scorn : SOURGRAPES
64
Unscrupulous one, perhaps : USER
65
Art Deco master : ERTE
66
Pikelike fish : GARS
67
Minus : LESS
68
Woodwind : REED
69
Olfactory stimulation : ODOR
Down
1
Flourish : GROW
2
Zhivago's lady fair : LARA
3
___ the Terrible : IVAN
4
River's turn : BEND
5
Letters in a dragnet : APB
6
Certain Persian's sound : MEOW
7
Egyptian dam : ASWAN
8
Ant caste : SOLDIERS
9
Hosts : ARMIES
10
Pyrotechnical device : CHERRYBOMB
11
Like Caspar Milquetoast : MEEK
12
Cry from a chuck wagon : EATS
17
Transmission components : GEARS
18
Yeats's motherland : ERIN
24
Speed follower : DEMON
26
Rap, in a way : GAS
27
Smokeless plug : CHAW
28
Penumbra : AURA
29
Chancy social appointments : BLINDDATES
30
Building wing : ELL
31
Part of a castle : TOWER
35
More experienced : OLDER
37
"A Death in the Family" author : AGEE
38
Means of egress : DOOR
40
Bach or Bacharach : COMPOSER
41
Sporty cap : TAM
43
Amateurish actor : HAM
44
Wood for a chest : CEDAR
46
Grapevine fuel : RUMORS
48
Flash Gordon's "merciless" foe : MING
50
Attested : SWORE
52
Caesar's France : GAUL
53
Clever trick : RUSE
55
Guitarlike instrument : LUTE
57
Palm variety : SAGO
58
W.W. I fighter plane : SPAD
59
Prefix with dynamics : AERO
60
U.N. member : USSR
63
Blushing : RED

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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