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William Canine
New York Times, Friday, August 14, 1992
29-Across : Maigret colleague
Author:
William Canine
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.29, Missing: { F Q X }, Scrabble score: 300 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 56, Cheaters: 14, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
William Canine has 65 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 C | 2 E | 3 R | 4 A | 5 M | 6 E | 7 T | 8 H | 9 O | 10 S | |||||
11 G | E | N | E | V | A | 12 U | R | A | L | I | 13 C | |||
14 A | R | T | I | E | R | 15 R | A | N | D | A | L | 16 L |
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17 B | L | T | 18 D | R | Y | 19 D | O | C | K | 20 M | O | O |
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21 R | O | A | 22 R | 23 S | L | E | P | T | 24 L | E | V | A |
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25 A | R | I | E | 26 S | 27 A | V | A | 28 B | A | S | E | D |
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29 G | E | N | D | A | 30 R | M | E | 31 C | O | Z | E | N | S |
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32 L | J | U | B | L | 33 J | A | N | A | ||||||
34 A | 35 D | 36 R | I | A | N | 37 O | A | T | G | R | 38 A | 39 S | 40 S |
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41 P | R | A | N | K | 42 S | P | Y | 43 S | U | L | L | A |
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44 P | O | N | E | 45 S | T | E | G | 46 O | 47 S | A | I | L |
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48 E | N | S | 49 B | U | R | R | O | W | 50 S | 51 R | C | T |
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52 L | E | O | 53 N | O | R | A | 54 U | N | T | 55 A | M | E | ||
56 S | M | E | L | L | Y | 57 L | E | A | P | E | D | |||
58 S | W | A | Y | S | 59 D | R | Y | A | D |
© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,620
Across
1
Indonesian island : CERAM
6
Mores : ETHOS
11
City on the Rhone : GENEVA
12
Language family including Finnish : URALIC
14
More affected : ARTIER
15
Emmy winner Tony : RANDALL
17
Deli order : BLT
18
Shipyard feature : DRYDOCK
20
Bovine cry : MOO
21
Bellow : ROAR
23
Conked out : SLEPT
24
Bulgarian coins : LEVA
25
The Ram : ARIES
27
Mickey was her first husband : AVA
28
Formed a foundation for : BASED
29
Maigret colleague : GENDARME
31
Cheats : COZENS
32
Capital of Slovenia : LJUBLJANA
34
Only pope from England : ADRIAN
37
Wild grain : OATGRASS
41
Lark : PRANK
42
Napoleon Solo, for one : SPY
43
Roman dictator : SULLA
44
Fried bread : PONE
45
Cover: Comb. form : STEGO
47
Spinnaker, e.g. : SAIL
48
U.S.N. officer : ENS
49
Digs : BURROWS
51
This may be marked "Pd." : RCT
52
"Il Trovatore" heroine : LEONORA
54
Wild : UNTAME
56
Nose-wrinkling : SMELLY
57
Sprang : LEAPED
58
Influences : SWAYS
59
Wood nymph : DRYAD
Down
1
Unquestionable : CERTAIN
2
Suffix for differ : ENT
3
Editor Whitelaw ___: 1837-1912 : REID
4
Declares : AVERS
5
Elia's sister and co-author : MARYLAMB
6
One of Zeus's conquests : EUROPA
7
Pamphlet : TRACT
8
Aaron or Greenberg of baseball : HANK
9
Venerable : OLD
10
Thai : SIAMESE
11
In abundance : GALORE
13
Split : CLOVEN
16
Burdens : LOADS
17
Vaunt : BRAG
19
One with lots to talk about : DEVELOPER
22
Jones's "The Thin ___" : REDLINE
24
Miss Liberty's poet : LAZARUS
26
White colleague : SAJAK
28
Notes from Big Ben : BONGS
30
The ___ for the roses : RUN
31
Jazzman, to jazzmen : CAT
33
Black Friday's precipitator: 1869 : JAYGOULD
34
Fencer's feint : APPEL
35
Feckless ones : DRONES
36
Deliverances : RANSOMS
38
Fearful : ALARMED
39
Opposite of hooked, in golf : SLICED
40
Season : SALT
42
Mavericks : STRAYS
45
Ill-tempered : SURLY
46
One of the landed gentry : OWNER
49
Gaucho's weapon : BOLA
50
Remain : STAY
53
Neoteric : NEW
55
Brazilian border river : APA
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 6 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.