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Gayle Dean
Gayle Dean

New York Times, Tuesday, June 8, 1993

25-Across : Capital on the Aare

Author:
Gayle Dean
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 296 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Gayle Dean has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 5 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,918
Across
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Lose color : FADE
5
___ believe : MAKE
9
Foam : SPUME
14
Biblical shepherd : ABEL
15
Frenzied : AMOK
16
Mortise's adjunct : TENON
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Eisenhower's bride : MAMIEGENEVADOUD
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W.W. II area : ETO
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W. H. Harrison's wife : ANNA
22
Expunges : ERASES
23
Indicated : DENOTED
25
Capital on the Aare : BERN
26
Kind of blanket or suit : WET
27
Lincoln's bride : MARYTODD
31
Noted Canadian physician : OSLER
34
Tender : SORE
35
Goad : SPUR
36
Tarot-root paste : POI
37
Flawed merchandise : SECONDS
40
Hyson, e.g. : TEA
41
Actor Baldwin : ALEC
43
Measures of length : RODS
44
___ pudding : HASTY
46
Hoover's bride : LOUHENRY
48
Newsman Rather : DAN
49
Toward shelter : ALEE
50
Productive : FERTILE
54
Hand threshers : FLAILS
57
Hornswoggle : DUPE
58
Took a chair : SAT
59
Garfield's bride : LUCRETIARUDOLPH
62
Significant ___ : OTHER
63
Gordian attachment : KNOT
64
Space org. : NASA
65
Full of purslane : WEEDY
66
Strange : EERY
67
Foretoken : OMEN
Down
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Well-known : FAMED
2
Lessen : ABATE
3
Exorcist's quarry : DEMON
4
Samuel's teacher : ELI
5
Attractive body : MAGNET
6
Ameliorate : AMEND
7
Hawaiian winter wind : KONA
8
Supplement, with "out" : EKE
9
Like a clear night : STARRY
10
Eggheaded show-offs : PEDANTS
11
Some, in Spain : UNOS
12
Little grimace : MOUE
13
Intentions : ENDS
18
Van Gogh's "The Potato ___" : EATERS
19
Shifted course : VEERED
24
Be in the red : OWE
25
Rural sights : BARNS
27
Brooding : MOODY
28
Picks : OPTS
29
Met highlight : DUET
30
Cart : DRAY
31
October's gem : OPAL
32
Another Met highlight : SOLO
33
In ___ of : LIEU
34
Sondheim's notations, e.g. : SCORE
38
Author Hemingway : ERNEST
39
Apportioned : SHARED
42
Presided over : CHAIRED
45
Hill dweller : ANT
47
Queen of fiction : ELLERY
48
Chester's job in "Gunsmoke" : DEPUTY
50
Uproar : FUROR
51
Muslim faith : ISLAM
52
Expire : LAPSE
53
Frome or Allen : ETHAN
54
Ebb's partner : FLOW
55
Guitarlike instrument : LUTE
56
Throb : ACHE
57
Jutlander : DANE
60
Ozark ___ of comics : IKE
61
Lennon's partner : ONO

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

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