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Margaret W. Huskey
Margaret W. Huskey

New York Times, Tuesday, June 11, 1991

50-Across : Rook

Author:
Margaret W. Huskey
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 4.84, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 243 (avg 1.32)
Open Squares: 60, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Margaret W. Huskey has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,190
Across
1
Commence : START
6
Snare : TRAP
10
Shakespearean shrew : KATE
14
Hue : COLOR
15
Kind of space or plane : AERO
16
Inhabitants: Suffix : ITES
17
Sun-dried brick : ADOBE
18
Memorable caricaturist: 1840-1902 : NAST
19
Traditional knowledge : LORE
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U.S.S.R. water barrier : ROGUNDAM
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Exchanges for money : SELLS
24
Phases : STAGES
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Unemployed : IDLE
27
C.P.A. : ACCT
30
___ manner of 43 Across : BEDSIDE
32
Mrs. Hoover : LOU
33
Shortened: Abbr. : ABR
34
More precipitous : STEEPER
38
Register : ENROLL
40
Boo-boos : ERRORS
41
Main dishes : ENTREES
43
A.M.A. members : DRS
44
Actress Ullmann : LIV
45
A jellyfish : AURELIA
47
Abysmal : DEEP
48
Unit of power : WATT
50
Rook : CASTLE
52
Improper : AMISS
54
Gallinaceous bird : PHEASANT
58
Thought: Comb. form : IDEO
59
Northern Scandinavian : LAPP
61
Juniper : CEDAR
62
Vols' state : TENN
63
On the Coral : ASEA
64
Obliterate : ERASE
65
Leftovers for Rover : ORTS
66
Mountain lake : TARN
67
Wander : STRAY
Down
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Blemish : SCAR
2
Hubbub : TODO
3
Like a bump on ___ : ALOG
4
Hale : ROBUST
5
English river : TRENT
6
Scarlet bird : TANAGER
7
Bored : REAMED
8
"___ longa, vita brevis" : ARS
9
Crocks : POTS
10
Plover : KILLDEER
11
Tarawa is one : ATOLL
12
Concise : TERSE
13
Suffix with Nippon : ESE
21
Amateur : DABBLER
23
Ducks : EIDERS
25
Draft org. : SSS
27
Helm position : ALEE
28
Direct a helmsman : CONN
29
Short and not so sweet : CURT
31
Repeat : ITERATE
33
Attu natives : ALEUTS
35
Walesa is one : POLE
36
Canal called "Clinton's Folly" : ERIE
37
Book by Elsa Maxwell : RSVP
39
Ciceronian discourses : ORATIONS
42
Dry, as wine : SEC
43
Type of hands? : DISHPAN
46
Thirsty cat or dog : LAPPER
47
Mojave or Gobi : DESERT
48
Waterproof garment : WADER
49
Catkin : AMENT
51
Stiffens the punch : LACES
53
Blind part : SLAT
55
Jewish month : ADAR
56
Space agcy. : NASA
57
Deuce topper : TREY
58
Japanese statesman : ITO
60
Sly ___ fox : ASA

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1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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