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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Monday, July 22, 1991

14-Across : Arthur's Willie

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { J K Q U }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,231
Across
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What an aide lends : HAND
5
Intimidates : COWS
9
Sound of distress : ALAS
13
On the sheltered side : ALEE
14
Arthur's Willie : LOMAN
15
"A rose by any other ___ ... " : NAME
16
Omani money : RIAL
17
Love, in Livorno : AMORE
18
Darn! : DRAT
19
Warsaw was raw, e.g. : PALINDROME
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Precipitate : RASH
22
Sugary suffix : OSE
23
Nabokov title : ADA
24
Memorable opera star Pinza : EZIO
26
Place to catch forty winks : BED
27
Poet Schwartz : DELMORE
31
Wizard's tool : WAND
35
Buttons or Skelton : RED
37
Watched calories : DIETED
38
Marketplace : AGORA
40
Call, in poker : SEE
42
___ a dozen : ADIME
43
Felt hat : FEDORA
45
Outside: Comb. form : EXO
47
Hebrew zither : ASOR
48
Earthquake phenomena : TREMORS
50
Speech fillers : EHS
52
End for depend : ENCE
53
Farrow, to Woody : MIA
54
Garfield, e.g. : CAT
57
Like Savalas : BALD
60
Arena of a sort : HIPPODROME
63
"Eri tu" is one : ARIA
64
___ Gay (W.W. II plane) : ENOLA
65
Done : OVER
66
Bring up or something to bring up : REAR
67
Played "Taxi" again : RERAN
68
Clairvoyant : SEER
69
Not-a-one : NARY
70
W.W. I battle site : YSER
71
Raison d'___ : ETRE
Down
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Groucho's silent partner : HARPO
2
A k a : ALIAS
3
Fraser of tennis : NEALE
4
Cold-cuts store : DELI
5
They are sometimes in arms : COMRADES
6
Melville title : OMOO
7
Thawed : WARMED
8
Suffered from hay fever : SNEEZED
9
Northern constellation : ANDROMEDA
10
Zhivago's love : LARA
11
Amo, ___, amat : AMAS
12
Abel's younger brother : SETH
14
Fireman's need : LADDER
20
Bag : NAB
25
Pelvic bones : ILIA
28
Elevator man : OTIS
29
San ___, Italy : REMO
30
Fulda feeder : EDER
31
Blow gently : WAFT
32
Ripener : AGER
33
Predicament : NODE
34
Lawrence's mount : DROMEDARY
36
Cee chaser : DEE
39
Part of Presley's signature : ARON
41
Archetype : EXEMPLAR
44
Target sport : ARCHERY
46
Taft was one : OHIOAN
49
Nets : SEINES
51
Melancholy : SAD
54
Crave wrongfully : COVET
55
Middle East V.I.P. : AMEER
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___ Haute, Ind. : TERRE
57
Kind of storm or yard : BARN
58
Sector : AREA
59
Prevaricator : LIAR
61
Study hard : PORE
62
Got up : ROSE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 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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