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Kenneth Haxton
Kenneth Haxton

New York Times, Thursday, May 31, 1990

40-Across : Wild talk

Author:
Kenneth Haxton
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { F J Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0 Grid has duplicate clues.
Kenneth Haxton has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,814
Across
1
Office note : MEMO
5
Judges' attire : ROBES
10
Bird : SWAN
14
Line about which a body rotates : AXIS
15
Name of fame in tennis : EVERT
16
Tempo : PACE
17
Shade : TINT
18
Join : MERGE
19
Mars, to Plato : ARES
20
Bird : STARLING
22
Detention : ARREST
24
Charged particles : IONS
25
Asperse : SLUR
26
Went over carefully : TRACED
29
Bird : TITMOUSE
33
Jumble : HASH
34
Hide away : STASH
36
Bird : WREN
37
Latin I verb : AMO
38
Proposed 27th Amendment : ERA
39
Fell for a joke : BIT
40
Wild talk : RANT
42
Funny, to Balzac : DROLE
44
Wax antonym : WANE
45
Bird : PHEASANT
47
Almost perfect horseshoes throw : LEANER
49
Carmelites, e.g. : NUNS
50
Love, to a señorita : AMOR
51
Leave high and dry : STRAND
54
Bird : GROSBEAK
58
British W.W. I field marshal : HAIG
59
Profit from instruction : LEARN
61
"Roi d'Ys" composer : LALO
62
Commedia dell'___ : ARTE
63
Bird : EGRET
64
This, in Sonora : ESTO
65
Apparel : GEAR
66
Kind, at the Sorbonne : SORTE
67
Harvest : REAP
Down
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Tennis's Wilander : MATS
2
Sartre's "No ___" : EXIT
3
Bird : MINA
4
Bird : OSTRICH
5
Jogs the memory : REMINDS
6
Oasts : OVENS
7
"Lulu" composer : BERG
8
Work unit : ERG
9
New bomber : STEALTH
10
Bird : SPARROW
11
Merchandise : WARE
12
Highest cards in pinochle : ACES
13
Bird's home : NEST
21
___ Dakka, town in Afghanistan : LOE
23
Mai-tai base : RUM
25
Agave fiber : SISAL
26
Choreographer Twyla ___ : THARP
27
Birthplace of Samuel : RAMAH
28
" ... I stand ___ upon a rock": Shak. : ASONE
29
Allegorical card : TAROT
30
Of the city : URBAN
31
Le fleuve de Paris : SEINE
32
Join a competition : ENTER
35
Birds : TERNS
41
Bird : TANAGER
42
Treats a tot fondly : DANDLES
43
SW Calif. city : ELMONTE
44
Bird : WARBLER
46
"The ___ Also Rises": Hemingway : SUN
48
Dawn goddess : EOS
50
Stop, in Sedan : ARRET
51
Bird : SHAG
52
Darnel : TARE
53
Actress Tushingham : RITA
54
Atlanta slugger: 1968-75 : GARR
55
Comfort : EASE
56
Can. province : ALTA
57
Ex-Surgeon General : KOOP
60
Monogram of a great U.S. playwright : EGO

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