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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Tuesday, May 21, 1991

61-Across : Sol Hurok was one

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,169
Across
1
Yodelers' locale : ALPS
5
Dumbfounds : AWES
9
Flower part : SEPAL
14
Via del Corso coins : LIRE
15
Saucy : PERT
16
Vestige : TRACE
17
C. Porter's "I ___ Love" : AMIN
18
Wilde or Wilder, at times : PLAYWRIGHT
20
Took away : REMOVED
22
Elsa, for one : LIONESS
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Opera highlight : ARIA
24
Source of water : WELL
25
Family member : DAD
27
Kind of gin : SLOE
29
Informal trousers : SLACKS
34
Lusitania sinker : UBOAT
36
Public showing, for short : DEMO
38
___ fide : BONA
39
Fred Astaire, e.g. : SONGANDDANCEMAN
42
Food fish : TUNA
43
Customer : USER
44
École attendant : ELEVE
45
Gawked : STARED
47
Well ___ (literate) : READ
49
The, in Kiel : DER
50
Mellows : AGES
52
Indonesian island : BALI
54
Braggart : BOASTER
58
Screams : SHRIEKS
61
Sol Hurok was one : IMPRESARIO
63
Agitated state : SNIT
64
Close, to a poet : ANEAR
65
Burn : SEAR
66
Part of A.D. : ANNO
67
Actress Spacek : SISSY
68
End of an O'Neill title : ELMS
69
Ooze : SEEP
Down
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Winged : ALAR
2
Egg-shaped fruit : LIME
3
Maria Callas was one : PRIMADONNA
4
Cádiz gentleman : SENOR
5
Urgent request : APPEAL
6
Join metals : WELD
7
Historic period : ERA
8
Manner : STYLE
9
Amble : STROLL
10
Emerald Isle : ERIN
11
Book part : PAGE
12
Frau's cries of woe : ACHS
13
Rents : LETS
19
Taft's successor : WILSON
21
Distant view : VISTA
24
Garden devices : WEEDERS
25
Does a house chore : DUSTS
26
Roughly : ABOUT
28
Gambler's concern : ODDS
30
Early earthling : ABEL
31
Lucille Ball was one : COMEDIENNE
32
Unprincipled man : KNAVE
33
More logical : SANER
35
Food thickener : AGAR
37
Grown-up filly : MARE
40
Pokes gently : NUDGES
41
Kind of chest : CEDAR
46
Diner : EATERY
48
Loathes : ABHORS
51
Wipe out : ERASE
53
Actresses Bonet and Eilbacher : LISAS
54
Slant : BIAS
55
Prefix with bus : OMNI
56
Gibbons : APES
57
Spanish ladies: Abbr. : SRAS
58
Thailand, once : SIAM
59
Cows, to Cowper : KINE
60
End : STOP
62
Islam, e.g.: Abbr. : REL

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

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