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Kay Sullivan
Kay Sullivan

New York Times, Saturday, August 15, 1987

57-Across : Sine qua non for certain duets

Author:
Kay Sullivan
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J K Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Kay Sullivan has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,794
Across
1
The ___ of the Apostles : ACTS
5
Mil. need : AMMO
9
Crémerie, e.g. : SHOP
13
Fly lightly and rapidly : FLIT
14
Garlands : LEIS
15
An oil source : OLIVE
16
Court strokes : FOREHANDS
18
Christie's Ackroyd : ROGER
19
Certain ornaments in architecture : OVA
20
Kind of ink : INDIA
21
City in Germany : LAHR
22
Set right : REDRESS
24
Miniature-tree culture : BONSAI
26
Dismal, to Keats : DREAR
27
Sharp blow : CLAP
29
Chi. transportation : ELS
30
Receipt : VOUCHER
33
Like Manute Bol : TALL
34
Feel pity : ACHE
37
Opposite of forte : PIANO
38
Chimney on das Haus : ESSE
39
Colton-Randolph play : RAIN
40
Silent one, sometimes : PARTNER
42
Al-___, Saharan region : ERG
43
Nash contemporaries : REOS
44
Wine attribute : AROMA
48
" ... ___ for sport": Emerson : ANHOUR
50
Gathered with difficulty : SCRAPED
52
Small shields : ECUS
53
Circa : ABOUT
55
Noted British painter of birds : EDE
56
Void : EGEST
57
Sine qua non for certain duets : FOURHANDS
59
Bantingizes : DIETS
60
Mother of Aeolus : ARNE
61
Nonwoven, nonknit fabric : FELT
62
Houdini's wife : BESS
63
Rose's men : REDS
64
Oxford insert : TREE
Down
1
Have the wherewithal : AFFORD
2
Symbol of luxury : CLOVER
3
Harangue : TIRADE
4
Sault ___ Marie : STE
5
Senators Cranston and Simpson : ALANS
6
Doctors : MENDS
7
Haydn's "Le ___" : MIDI
8
Mountain in Thessaly : OSSA
9
Painter of the Ashcan School : SLOAN
10
Out-of-sight site : HIGHSEAS
11
Spoilers of Mrs. Murphy's chowder : OVERALLS
12
Mystery writer Wahloo : PER
15
Lowest deck : ORLOP
17
Sacred: Comb. form : HIERO
23
Like some locks : RAVEN
24
Ochs of opera : BARON
25
Swinburne is one : ISLE
27
British cleaners and scrubbers : CHARS
28
Fast time : LENT
31
Mich.'s ___ Peninsula : UPPER
32
Amico's greeting : CIAO
33
Roman goddess : TERRA
34
Expanse : AREA
35
Hall for the famed : CARNEGIE
36
What Sutherland often hits : HIGHCEES
41
Sphere of 33 Down : EARTH
43
Becomes oxidized : RUSTS
45
Corkscrew : OPENER
46
Pry : MEDDLE
47
Hymn starter : ADESTE
49
Cashiers : OUSTS
50
Fathom : SOUND
51
Tans : CURES
53
Churchill's "___ Country" : AFAR
54
Drill : BORE
56
Teacher's deg. : EDB
58
At the stern : AFT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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