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Eileen Lexau
Eileen Lexau

New York Times, Tuesday, May 23, 1989

35-Across : He wrote "Bread and Wine"

Author:
Eileen Lexau
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 60, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Eileen Lexau has 17 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 10 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,441
Across
1
___ number (speed measure) : MACH
5
Informal talk : CHAT
9
Date-book abbr. : APPT
13
Land mass : ASIA
14
Kind of elephant : ROGUE
16
Hard or soft follower : WARE
17
Fanciful idea : BEEINONESBONNET
20
Lets : ALLOWS
21
Coolidge's nickname : CAL
22
Color : DYE
23
Finish : END
24
Cocktail tidbit : CANAPE
26
Host : HORDE
29
Give the ax to : CAN
30
Thighbone : FEMUR
33
Mine find : ORE
34
British meeting place : PUB
35
He wrote "Bread and Wine" : SILONE
36
Unwilling listeners, usually : CAPTIVEAUDIENCE
40
Disturbance : UNREST
41
Football linemen: Abbr. : RTS
42
Kind : ILK
43
Weather event : STORM
44
Haw's companion : HEE
45
Shoestrings : LACES
47
Military commission : BREVET
49
Wager : BET
50
By way of : VIA
52
Pen point : NIB
53
Ski maneuver : SLALOM
56
Readily : ATTHEDROPOFAHAT
60
What video means : ISEE
61
Hawkeye : IOWAN
62
Developer's interest : SITE
63
Whip : LASH
64
Drip's cousin : NERD
65
Repulsive one : TOAD
Down
1
Fairy queen : MAB
2
On the Red : ASEA
3
Shade of blue : CIEL
4
Greeted : HAILED
5
Throng : CROWD
6
Sweeties : HONS
7
Grow older : AGE
8
Native of Florence : TUSCAN
9
Grain bristle : AWN
10
Riotous : PANDEMONIC
11
Mouse, to Morris : PREY
12
French head : TETE
15
Abba of Israel : EBAN
18
"___ but the brave ... " : NONE
19
Patron saint of Norway : OLAFII
24
Minnelli-Grey film: 1972 : CABARET
25
Soccer great : PELE
26
___-pocus : HOCUS
27
Praying figure : ORANT
28
Unprincipled ones : REPROBATES
29
Billiard stick : CUE
31
Giving-in word : UNCLE
32
Emits fumes : REEKS
34
Mil. entrant : PVT
35
Radical 60's gp. : SDS
37
Haw. before 1959 : TERR
38
Antigone's sister : ISMENE
39
Western Indian : UTE
44
Jordanian city occupied by Israel in 1967 : HEBRON
45
Page : LEAF
46
Finally : ATLAST
48
Caesar's "Veni, ___, vici" : VIDI
49
Fair : BLOND
50
Colo. resort : VAIL
51
"___ Good Day," Peggy Lee hit : ITSA
53
Box before a bout : SPAR
54
Paducah's river : OHIO
55
___ Hari : MATA
57
Querying sound : HEH
58
Be in debt : OWE
59
Kennedy or Koppel : TED

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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