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Evelyn Benshoof
Evelyn Benshoof

New York Times, Monday, August 18, 1986

40-Across : Vivid

Author:
Evelyn Benshoof
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { G J K Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Evelyn Benshoof has 71 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,432
Across
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Poderosa family member : HOSS
5
Thick slice of bread : SLAB
9
Peduncle : STEM
13
A Johnson : ARTE
14
Jostle : SHOVE
15
Kind of shirt : POLO
16
Guide : LEAD
17
Verb in a biblical admonition : COVET
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A Guthrie : ARLO
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Assail suddenly : FLYATONESTHROAT
22
Shredded : TORE
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Greek goddess of dawn : EOS
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Wis. city : RACINE
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Equine pest : HORSEFLY
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___ drab : OLIVE
33
Printing mark : CARET
34
Corded fabric : REP
35
Sleazy bar : DIVE
36
Founded : BASED
37
German coal basin : SAAR
38
Unusual shoe width : EEE
39
Fabrics : FELTS
40
Vivid : ALIVE
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Hurriedly : ONTHEFLY
43
Something to tip : SCALES
44
An Onassis nickname : ARI
45
Hemplike fiber : SUNN
46
Act forthrightly : FLYINTHETEETHOF
54
Iranian coin : RIAL
55
Prophetic card : TAROT
56
One of almost 12,000 N.Y.C. vehicles : TAXI
57
Concerning : INRE
58
All possible : EVERY
59
Lycian poet : OLEN
60
Do a sitter's job : TEND
61
Galley mark : DELE
62
Cornmeal bread : PONE
Down
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Word with shell or sole : HALF
2
Soviet city : OREL
3
Tarry : STAY
4
Tending to calm : SEDATIVE
5
Sparkled : SHONE
6
In tennis, nothing : LOVE
7
City sts. : AVES
8
Improved : BETTERED
9
Thinly populated : SPARSE
10
Ring contestant in Madrid : TORO
11
Fitzgerald or Raines : ELLA
12
Debatable : MOOT
14
Tally : SCORE
20
Franchot of films : TONE
21
"A ___, of golden daffodils": Wordsworth : HOST
24
Western exhibition : RODEO
25
Strange : ALIEN
26
Bush cat : CIVET
27
Precipitate : HASTY
28
Bauxite and galena : ORES
29
Easily broken : FRAIL
30
Desert : LEAVE
31
Belgian town, to a Frenchman : YPRES
33
Summon : CALL
36
Was becoming to : BEFITTED
37
Describing some desks : SLANTTOP
39
Bouquet enhancer : FERN
40
Skin blemish : ACNE
42
Approved enthusiastically : HAILED
43
Fatlike : SUETY
45
Put away : STORE
46
Ingredient of glass : FRIT
47
Occupation : LINE
48
Story : YARN
49
Contain : HAVE
50
Diminutive suffix : EREL
51
Nimbus : HALO
52
Draft animals : OXEN
53
Choice : FINE

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

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