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Walter Covell
Walter Covell

New York Times, Friday, May 4, 1990

57-Across : Football-team positioning on offense

Author:
Walter Covell
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { H Q V W Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Walter Covell has 33 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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D
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U
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B
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C
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A
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,787
Across
1
June 6, 1944 : DDAY
5
Musical-pitch indicator : GCLEF
10
Ski lift : TBAR
14
Architect Saarinen : EERO
15
Mrs. Gorbachev : RAISA
16
Hereditary unit : GENE
17
Certain mesons : JPARTICLES
19
Torn place : RENT
20
Essays : ATTEMPTS
21
Similes, e.g. : TROPES
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Finial : EPI
24
Dish list : MENU
25
Procacious : SASSY
28
Topers : TOSSPOTS
32
___ pris (bias) : PARTI
33
Biblical verb : DOST
34
Baseball stat. : RBI
35
Mimics : APERS
36
___ du Diable : ILE
37
Pungent bulb : ONION
39
King Arthur's lance : RON
40
Gal of song et al. : SALS
41
Metaphysical poet : DONNE
42
Wartime meals : KRATIONS
45
Reef : LEDGE
46
Alma mater of an ens. : USNA
47
Fig trees of India : BOS
48
Ancient Peloponnesian state : SPARTA
51
Performance of a duty: Law : FEASANCE
56
Chat : TALK
57
Football-team positioning on offense : TFORMATION
59
Bush studied here : YALE
60
A style of dress : ALINE
61
Treasury agt. : TMAN
62
Diagnostic photo : XRAY
63
Emulated a cobbler : SOLED
64
Movie dog : ASTA
Down
1
___ vu : DEJA
2
Govt. branch : DEPT
3
Smell ___ : ARAT
4
Olden times : YORE
5
Suffering from a form of flu : GRIPPY
6
Cholla and saguaro : CACTI
7
Jim Brady's friend et al. : LILS
8
Ending for Siam : ESE
9
Most celeritous : FASTEST
10
Collection of people learning to improve sensitivity : TGROUP
11
Warning sound : BEEP
12
Royal equestrienne : ANNE
13
Macerates : RETS
18
Compound-word separation : TMESIS
22
Hosp. "angels" : RNS
24
Biblical lawgiver : MOSES
25
Flavor : SAPOR
26
Dallas's Reunion is one : ARENA
27
SS : STR
28
End of a Hemingway title : TOLLS
29
Sealing gasket used by NASA : ORING
30
Steak cut : TBONE
31
Trigonometrical function : SINE
32
Hyde or Central follower : PARK
33
Lady ___ Cooper : DIANA
37
Black Sea port : ODESSA
38
Doze a bit : NOD
40
Instrumental pieces : SONATAS
43
Bowler's three successive strikes : TURKEY
44
Producer: Suffix : IST
45
Applied topsoil : LOAMED
47
"Happy Valley" author : BERNE
48
A river of Hades : STYX
49
Former "Tonight Show" host : PAAR
50
___ breve (music direction) : ALLA
51
Thwart : FOIL
52
"___ boy!" : ATTA
53
"The Iron Pastoral" poet : NIMS
54
Paint layer : COAT
55
Sicilian resort : ENNA
58
Showman Ziegfeld : FLO

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

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