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Ernie Furtado
Ernie Furtado

New York Times, Friday, June 28, 1991

31-Across : Flier, at times

Author:
Ernie Furtado
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J K W }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Ernie Furtado has 18 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 12 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,207
Across
1
Not in the ___ : LEAST
6
Song attachment : FEST
10
" ... ___ souls of housemaids": Eliot : DAMP
14
"The Zoo Story" playwright : ALBEE
15
Nice notion : IDEE
16
Miscellany : OLIO
17
Dylan plays it : MOUTHORGAN
19
Merriment : GLEE
20
Chirr; stridulate : PITTER
21
Political animal : ELEPHANT
23
Slippery ones : EELS
25
Norman invasion town : STLO
26
P.G.A. winner: 1965 : MARR
29
Master Melvin of baseball : OTT
31
Flier, at times : SAUCER
35
Fuss : ADO
36
Blade of grass : SPEAR
38
Stream that starts in the Alps : ISERE
39
Beer ingredient : YEAST
41
Actress MacGraw : ALI
42
"The Wreck of the Mary ___" : DEARE
43
Prom queen : BELLE
44
"Dancer at the Practice Bar" painter : DEGAS
46
Morse recourse : SOS
47
Whirlpools for Arcaro? : EDDIES
49
Actor Worley : SID
50
Evenings, in Roma : SERE
51
Braid : PLAT
53
___ Straits (rock group) : DIRE
55
D. Mann's "The ___ Party": 1957 : BACHELOR
59
Abandon : VACATE
63
Switch ending : EROO
64
Welk plays it : SQUEEZEBOX
66
Teri of Hollywood : GARR
67
Polly or Pittypat : AUNT
68
"Swan Lake" role : ODILE
69
Sandhurst weapon : STEN
70
___ precedent : SETA
71
Orchestra section : REEDS
Down
1
Nightingale symbol : LAMP
2
Victims in "The Time Machine" : ELOI
3
Border on : ABUT
4
Volleyballer, at times : SETTER
5
Snicker : TEHEE
6
Balsam, e.g. : FIR
7
Advantage : EDGE
8
Licks and sticks : SEALS
9
Positions : TENETS
10
Residence for one in disfavor : DOGHOUSE
11
Actress Nazimova : ALLA
12
Look : MIEN
13
Metrician : POET
18
Certain deck : ORLOP
22
Fabric patterns : PLAIDS
24
Place : STEAD
26
Gershwin song: 1926 : MAYBE
27
"___ without a name": Shak. : ADEED
28
Writer Dahl : ROALD
30
An anagram for 1 Across : TALES
32
___-fire : CEASE
33
Blunder : ERROR
34
Dodger of yore : REESE
36
Trooper Duffy portrayer on TV : STEELE
37
Unbending : RIGID
40
Tommy Dorsey played it : SLIPHORN
45
Took ___ (threw the fight) : ADIVE
48
Does a Latin dance : SALSAS
50
Withdraw : SECEDE
52
Woman's brimless hat : TOQUE
54
Beard eraser : RAZOR
55
Makes a touch : BEGS
56
Smell ___ : ARAT
57
Apple residuum : CORE
58
Litter Lilliputian : RUNT
60
A. Nichols's hero : ABIE
61
Was effective : TOLD
62
Preceders of wyes : EXES
65
J.F.K. letters : ETA

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

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