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Kenneth Witte
Kenneth Witte

New York Times, Saturday, August 2, 1986

60-Across : Soft, velvetlike cloth

Author:
Kenneth Witte
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { F G J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Kenneth Witte has 30 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,416
Across
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Treasury agt. : TMAN
5
Refluxes : EBBS
9
Walls set in ditches : HAHAS
14
Sunny's ___, 1983 Derby winner : HALO
15
A daughter of Laban : LEAH
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Winged ant : ALATE
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Site of Vance A.F.B. : ENID
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African fox : ASSE
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Less common : RARER
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Vigorously, for John Philip Sousa? : TOBEATTHEBAND
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Jackie's second : ARI
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Brazilian coffee : RIO
25
Battery abbr. : POS
26
III x LXVII : CCI
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Act vigorously, like Severinsen? : BLOWUPASTORM
32
"___ Moments," Hank Snow hit : STOLEN
35
Huff : PET
36
Iris layer : UVEA
37
Davey of baseball fame : LOPES
38
Old English letter : WEN
39
U.S.N.A. expression : ABEAM
40
Crafts' companion : ARTS
41
Hamartiologist's topic : SIN
42
Ship's radio operator : SPARKS
43
Vigorously, for Hulk Hogan? : TOOTHANDNAIL
46
Seventh sense? : ESP
47
Luther's "___ feste Burg ... " : EIN
48
Print measures : ENS
49
River in Cork : LEE
52
Vigorously, for Mary Lou Retton? : HEADOVERHEELS
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Kind of shirt : SPORT
58
Comprehensive : WIDE
59
Counsel, in Caen : AVIS
60
Soft, velvetlike cloth : PANNE
61
Type of sch. : ELEM
62
Plexus : RETE
63
Kabul bigwig : AMEER
64
Make over : REDO
65
Detected : SEEN
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Iota preceder : THETA
2
Landed estate : MANOR
3
Slip cover? : ALIBI
4
Central point : NODE
5
Glee : ELATION
6
Confer : BESTOW
7
British wingding : BASH
8
Ovine corral : SHEEPPEN
9
Torment repeatedly : HARASS
10
Author Villiers : ALAN
11
Describing a paperback's dearer relative : HARDCOVER
12
Goddess of evil : ATE
13
Indian weight : SER
21
Rhone River city : ARLES
22
Lighter, e.g. : BOAT
27
Joint sound? : CREAK
28
Mosque priests : IMAMS
29
Consecrated : BLEST
30
Topple : UPEND
31
Shylock's friend : TUBAL
32
List of candidates : SLATE
33
Plaza de ___ : TOROS
34
Reading device for the blind : OPTOPHONE
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Grain sifter : WINNOWER
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Slavishly imitative : APISH
41
Reputed : SAID
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Riviera seaport : SANREMO
44
Gangster's gat : HEATER
45
Essential : NEEDED
49
Embankment : LEVEE
50
Size of typewriter type : ELITE
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Chief city of the Ruhr : ESSEN
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Former lightweight champ : ERNE
54
Repulsive : VILE
55
Lamb's "A Chapter on ___" : EARS
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Belgian resort : SPA
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Knave of clubs : PAM

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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