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Don Groat
Don Groat

New York Times, Monday, August 10, 1992

44-Across : Calf's stomach membrane

Author:
Don Groat
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J K Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Don Groat has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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G
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H
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S
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D
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M
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B
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L
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D
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,616
Across
1
Grist receiver : MILL
5
Aircraft personnel : CREW
9
Honkers : GEESE
14
Reveler's cry of old : EVOE
15
Lead-in for gram : HEXA
16
Damask-rose perfume : ATTAR
17
Not fem. or neut. : MASC
18
Inspired : AWED
19
Gunwale adjunct : THOLE
20
"Better a blush ___" (Beginning of a Cervantes quote) : ONTHEFACETHANA
23
Continually : EVER
24
Poetic contraction : EEN
25
___ up (gather quickly) : SCARE
28
Library instrument : DATER
31
Unruly crowd : MOB
34
Just about : ALMOST
36
Developer's purchase : LOT
37
Sufficiently cooked : DONE
38
"Mon ___!" : DIEU
39
Cat-___-tails : ONINE
41
Malt kiln : OAST
42
Jillian and Miller : ANNS
43
Chaney or Nol : LON
44
Calf's stomach membrane : RENNET
46
Asian festival : TET
47
Jason's sorceress : MEDEA
49
Sample : TASTE
50
Group of whales : POD
51
Savoir-faire : TACT
53
Conclusion of the quote : BLOTONTHEHEART
60
Slipknot loop : NOOSE
61
Toward the mouth : ORAD
62
English humorist Edward ___ : LEAR
63
Dean Martin party : ROAST
64
Musical sound : TONE
65
Cement ingredient : LIME
66
Llama's habitat : ANDES
67
___ of the earth : ENDS
68
"Pardon me!" : OOPS
Down
1
Office note : MEMO
2
A grand duke of Muscovy : IVAN
3
Kind of cause : LOST
4
Lustful : LECHEROUS
5
Irritate : CHAFE
6
Recompense : REWARD
7
Branch of govt. : EXEC
8
Move with effort : WADE
9
Infer : GATHER
10
Allen of the Revolution : ETHAN
11
College on the Thames : ETON
12
Room in a hacienda : SALA
13
Before, in poesy : ERE
21
Holiday preceders : EVES
22
Wobble : TEETER
25
Egypt's Anwar ___ : SADAT
26
Singer Patsy : CLINE
27
Flower spike : AMENT
29
Skirt style : ALINE
30
Long or short weight : TON
31
Eerie noises : MOANS
32
Assault : ONSET
33
Midler or Davis : BETTE
35
City on the Tagus : TOLEDO
37
Renaissance sculptor : DONATELLO
40
Cain's land : NOD
45
Impress distinctly : ETCH
47
Some a cappella songs : MOTETS
48
Available : ATHAND
50
___ comitatus : POSSE
52
Unwelcome mosquito : AEDES
53
Blessing : BOON
54
Burden : LOAD
55
Dollar bill : NOTE
56
Disney movie : TRON
57
All but "u" : AEIO
58
Freeway exit : RAMP
59
Cinco less dos : TRES
60
New Deal letters : NRA

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

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