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Daniel Girardi
Daniel Girardi

New York Times, Friday, May 24, 1991

21-Across : Fondness promoter?

Author:
Daniel Girardi
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F J Q U X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Daniel Girardi has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,172
Across
1
Prosaic : DRAB
5
Chinese wax : PELA
9
Assassinated Swedish Prime Minister: 1986 : PALME
14
Level, in Lincolnshire : RASE
15
American composer: 1874-1954 : IVES
16
Rap-sheet entry : ALIAS
17
Mediate : INTERCEDE
19
Desert ___ (1991 military operation) : STORM
20
Racing shell : PAIROAR
21
Fondness promoter? : ABSENCE
23
Duos: Abbr. : PRS
24
" ... thy warfare ___": Scott : OER
25
Tormented, with "at" : GNAWED
29
Severity : HARDNESS
34
Where Gideon mustered his army : HAROD
35
Harsh: Comb. form : CACO
36
Galsworthy's "___ of Devon" : AMAN
37
Depose : AVER
38
Spent : ALLIN
39
Jade : TIRE
40
Exigency : NEED
41
Depilous : BALD
42
Road sign : MERGE
43
They sparkle on diamonds : ALLSTARS
45
Joke that wows 'em : GASSER
46
Buddhist temple : WAT
47
Michael Jackson hit : BAD
48
Obtrudes : IMPOSES
52
Makes the grade : ARRIVES
57
Young salmon : PARRS
58
Variety of quartz : CARNELIAN
60
What aristarchs do : SLATE
61
Early Irish nobleman : AIRE
62
German cheese : KASE
63
Shell crew : EIGHT
64
Fruit decay : BLET
65
Der ___ (Adenauer) : ALTE
Down
1
Cousin of a twerp : DRIP
2
Bombay bigwig : RANA
3
Piedmontese city : ASTI
4
It's sold in a stube : BEER
5
French father of modern astronomy : PICARD
6
Cubs' Hall of Famer : EVERS
7
Directed : LED
8
On the Java : ASEA
9
Didn't see, in poker : PASSED
10
Certain jurors : ALTERNATES
11
St. Mark's symbol : LION
12
French brandy : MARC
13
Salinger girl : ESME
18
Fooled, with "in" : ROPED
22
Element used in metallurgy : BORON
25
Its major export is cacao : GHANA
26
Umbilicus : NAVEL
27
Spinning : AREEL
28
"Tintern Abbey" poet : WORDSWORTH
29
"___ of Anger," 1970 film : HALLS
30
Kind of test : ACID
31
Islamic chieftains : EMIRS
32
Beetle Bailey's boss : SARGE
33
Mock : SNEER
35
Instr. for Artie Shaw : CLAR
38
Weaken : ABATE
42
___ de Dios, Andean river : MADRE
44
Knight's armor plate : TASSET
45
Tackle for hoisting cargo : GARNET
47
Handrail for an étoile : BARRE
48
___ dixit : IPSE
49
Neighbor of Niger : MALI
50
Czech capital, to Germans : PRAG
51
Crust : SCAB
53
Writer Chase : ILKA
54
Ampul : VIAL
55
Cardinal point : EAST
56
Dagger : SNEE
59
Distress : AIL

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1 unique to this puzzle, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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