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Michael A. Rampino
Michael A. Rampino

New York Times, Wednesday, May 6, 1992

20-Across : Faultiest

Author:
Michael A. Rampino
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.43, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 90, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has both left-right and up-down symmetry.
Michael A. Rampino has 33 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,520
Across
1
Firmness of purpose : RESOLVE
8
Broiled : GRILLED
15
Board the Yankee Clipper : ENTRAIN
16
Lie back : RECLINE
17
Flighty person : FLIBBERTIGIBBET
19
Rims : LIPS
20
Faultiest : WORST
21
Dotted, as with stars : SEME
22
Hail or farewell : AVE
23
Fleur-de-___ : LIS
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___ Tin Tin : RIN
25
Be inclined : TEND
27
St. ___ fire : ELMOS
29
Let it stand : STET
30
Makes beloved : ENDEARS
32
Type of cross or cat : MALTESE
34
First lady : EVE
35
Napoleon's marshal : NEY
36
Red headings : RUBRICS
40
Muddlers : ADDLERS
44
Fencing sword : EPEE
45
Rows : TIERS
47
Bovine animals : OXEN
48
"Gotcha" cry : AHA
49
N.Y. winter time : EST
50
Inhabitant: Suffix : ITE
51
Apollo's mother : LETO
53
Fla. city : OCALA
55
Taj Mahal's site : AGRA
56
What a chatterbox can do : TALKABLUESTREAK
59
Blanket : OVERLIE
60
Organized body of knowledge : SCIENCE
61
Thrift-shop concerns : RESALES
62
Triggerman : SHOOTER
Down
1
Expand credit : REFLATE
2
Animate : ENLIVEN
3
Salary : STIPEND
4
Eyes, to poets : ORBS
5
H.S. chemistry room : LAB
6
Witness : VIEW
7
Matriculates : ENROLLS
8
Astronaut Virgil (Gus) ___ : GRISSOM
9
Command of a col. : REGT
10
Here, in Isère : ICI
11
Degrees of attys. : LLBS
12
"___, égalité, fraternité" : LIBERTE
13
Brutus and Antony, e.g. : ENEMIES
14
Relaxation of hostilities : DETENTE
18
Decorate : TRIM
26
Steel-plow pioneer : DEERE
27
Upright : ERECT
28
White ___ National Monument : SANDS
29
Sharp: Comb. form : STYLO
31
Ancestors: It. : AVI
33
Shepherded : LED
36
Land broker : REALTOR
37
Lift from under : UPHEAVE
38
Fab Four : BEATLES
39
Centuries: Fr. : SIECLES
40
Ingenuous : ARTLESS
41
Pressing : EXIGENT
42
Track previous steps : RETRACE
43
One of a cager's pair : SNEAKER
46
A son of Isaac and Rebecca : ESAU
52
Gumbo vegetable : OKRA
53
Annual theater award : OBIE
54
"Moses" author : ASCH
55
Mars: Comb. form : AREO
57
Entire : ALL
58
Uncle, in Uruguay : TIO

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

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