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Walter Covell
Walter Covell

New York Times, Friday, June 19, 1992

71-Across : Briareus

Author:
Walter Covell
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.63, Missing: { Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 250 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, 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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K
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M
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,564
Across
1
Erstwhile ruler of Baroda : GAEKWAR
8
Rapacious sea birds : JAEGERS
15
Golda Meir was one : ISRAELI
16
Oxygenates : AERATES
17
Father of Odysseus : LAERTES
18
Unfriendly inns? : HOSTELS
19
Jennets : ASSES
21
Recent, in Rostock : NEU
22
Shakers, for one : SECT
25
Johnny and comrades : REBS
27
A smoked salmon : NOVA
31
Title for Elizabeth II: Abbr. : HRH
32
Thingamabob : GISMO
34
De la Mare's "Peacock ___" : PIE
35
Bromeliaceous fruit : ANANAS
37
Booby-prize winners : ALSORANS
41
Noted film critic : PAULINEKAEL
43
It is sometimes piqued : INTEREST
45
Fauvist or minimalist : ARTIST
48
Arikara : REE
49
Assays : TESTS
51
Flight regulatory agcy. : NAA
52
Saw cut : KERF
54
Kind of plate : HOME
55
Filature : REEL
56
Kimono sash : OBI
58
Tidal bore : EAGRE
61
Goosefoot, e.g. : ALLSEED
65
Gaius Julius and Hadrian : CAESARS
69
Toscanini was one : MAESTRO
70
Games supervisors in old Rome : AEDILES
71
Briareus : AEGAEON
72
Certain neural structures : TAENIAE
Down
1
Actor Gerard : GIL
2
King in I Kings : ASA
3
Before, to Bryant : ERE
4
Gold measurement : KARAT
5
Dampens : WETS
6
City in S France : ALES
7
Flight parts : RISERS
8
Sudden, in Germany : JAH
9
Ages and ages : AEONS
10
Gaelic : ERSE
11
Canal Zone town : GATUN
12
Nice time of year : ETE
13
Bro. or sis. : REL
14
Draft org. : SSS
20
Linguistic-meaning unit : SEMANTEME
22
___ Na Na : SHA
23
Seaside raptor : ERN
24
___ and verse : CHAPTER
26
Tree trunk : BOLE
28
Iridescent : OPALINE
29
Bordeaux wine : VIN
30
Roman bronze : AES
32
Huge wild ox : GAUR
33
Man or Wight : ISLE
36
Scot's dissent : NAE
38
Three-handed card game : SKAT
39
Sculls : OARS
40
Soak : RET
42
Ratio words : ISTO
43
Exasperate : IRK
44
Wedding-report word : NEE
46
Extremely, to Burns : SAE
47
Indian cymbals : TAL
50
Wolf fish : SEACAT
53
Bone cavity : FOSSA
54
Priestly: Comb. form : HIERO
55
Piney exudation : RESIN
57
___ noire : BETE
59
Earth goddess : GAEA
60
Council, old style : REDE
61
Eucharistic cruet : AMA
62
Papua port : LAE
63
Journey segment : LEG
64
River to the Azov : DON
66
The Lion of God : ALI
67
Former power agcy. : REA
68
Vane reading : SSE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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