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Rhonda Kraus
Rhonda Kraus

New York Times, Saturday, June 9, 1984

57-Across : Author Gordimer

Author:
Rhonda Kraus
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.34, Missing: { B F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 244 (avg 1.30)
Open Squares: 60, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Rhonda Kraus has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,632
Across
1
___ cuisine : HAUTE
6
Misplay : ERROR
11
Entry : PORTAL
12
Room : LEEWAY
14
Part of London : WESTEND
15
Sobriquet for a liar : ANANIAS
17
Race participant : RAT
18
Halted : STOPPED
20
St. Paul-to-Duluth dir. : NNE
21
Certain collections : ANAS
23
Rub out : ERASE
24
Enjoy : LIKE
25
___ Sound, Wash. : PUGET
27
Mrs. Gynt : ASE
28
Clementine's pa : MINER
29
No-nos for an athlete : STEROIDS
31
Beauticians' treatments : SINGES
32
Lindbergh's craft : MONOPLANE
34
Samuel Clemens et al. : PILOTS
37
Rash fighter : OINTMENT
41
Actor Jeremy : IRONS
42
Mme., in Cádiz : SRA
43
Taste : SAPOR
44
Frequent wallowers : SOWS
45
Peruvian Indians who sound hostile : ANTIS
47
Pheasant's nest : NIDE
48
Suffix for a hydrocarbon : ANE
49
Garment-district employee : PRESSER
51
Iowa college : COE
52
Freedom from karma : NIRVANA
54
Unity : ONENESS
56
Left off : CEASED
57
Author Gordimer : NADINE
58
Slag : DROSS
59
Shawl : STOLE
Down
1
Behan's "The ___" : HOSTAGE
2
Buchwald or Carney : ART
3
Shoshoneans : UTES
4
Aunt, in Nancy : TANTE
5
Fabulous land : ELDORADO
6
Pass : ELAPSE
7
Adorée of silents : RENEE
8
Study : READ
9
Possess : OWN
10
Weather information : RAINING
11
Item changed to axle grease by Dr. Carver : PEANUT
13
Rizzuto for 13 years : YANKEE
14
Covers : WRAPS
16
Daniel and Isaiah : SEERS
19
Travel documents : PASSPORTS
22
Homilists' specialties : SERMONS
24
Utility-company employee : LINEMAN
26
Casper's wife : TOOTS
28
Catnip and mad-dog skullcap : MINTS
30
Parts of ft. : INS
31
Vistula feeder : SAN
33
Illicit amours : LIAISONS
34
Galileo was one : PISAN
35
Like poetic justice : IRONIC
36
Demeaned : LOWERED
38
Unmanly : EPICENE
39
Knotty : NODOSE
40
Bumbo and gateado : TREES
42
Sam and J.C. of golf : SNEADS
45
English composer and family : ARNES
46
Legislative body, in Paris : SENAT
49
El ___, Tex. : PASO
50
Make over : REDO
53
Volt-ampere unit : VAR
55
Nothing : NIL

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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