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Kevin Boyle
Kevin Boyle

New York Times, Saturday, August 21, 1993

43-Across : Kind of fiddle or string

Author:
Kevin Boyle
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.40, Missing: { J W Y Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 88, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Kevin Boyle has 32 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,992
Across
1
Italian musical drama : OPERASERIA
11
Dunderhead : SAP
14
Mann's con man : FELIXKRULL
15
Con man's mark : DUPE
16
Act of bandaging : FASCIATION
17
Abba ___, Israeli diplomat : EBAN
18
Adlai's running mate: 1956 : ESTES
19
Dreams up : ENVISIONS
21
Crucifix : ROOD
22
Parsees, e.g. : SECT
23
___ Dawn Chong of films : RAE
24
Oldest settler in the West? : SUN
25
Greek dawn goddess : EOS
28
One of the Bowls : ORANGE
30
Things to mind : PSANDQS
33
One half of essays : ESSES
34
"___ Agent," Conrad novel : THESECRET
37
Turkish city : ADANA
40
Snobbery : ELITISM
43
Kind of fiddle or string : SECOND
45
Increases, as an ante : UPS
46
"Music ___ charms ... ": Congreve : HAS
48
New England soda fountain : SPA
49
"The ___ of Amontillado," Poe story : CASK
52
School period : TERM
53
Formal interviews : AUDIENCES
56
Be altruistic : SHARE
57
Passage in the brain : ITER
58
Parallel : COLLATERAL
60
Units on space vehicles, for short : LEMS
61
Carrot, at times : ENTICEMENT
62
Budapest-to-Belgrade dir. : SSE
63
Outlaws : DESPERADOS
Down
1
Puts before : OFFERS
2
Foggy-day fare? : PEASOUP
3
Yankee great Howard and namesakes : ELSTONS
4
Fixed spuds, in a way : RICED
5
Second cervical vertebra : AXIS
6
Reggae relative : SKA
7
Romain de Tirtoff : ERTE
8
Angkor sight : RUINS
9
"___ everything that's old ... ": Goldsmith : ILOVE
10
Permanent-magnet alloy : ALNICO
11
Persuades to commit perjury : SUBORNS
12
Adjunct : APANAGE
13
Pascal work : PENSEES
15
"Agnus ___" : DEI
20
Grub and Easy : STREETS
25
Add attractions : ENHANCE
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Stasimon, e.g. : ODE
27
Mil. bodies : SQS
29
Piedmontese city : ASTI
31
Elem.-table heading : ATNO
32
Bishopric : SEE
35
Actor Gulager : CLU
36
Speed : RIP
37
Impinges upon : ASSAILS
38
Appoints as a representative : DEPUTES
39
Where Plato taught : ACADEME
41
Gathered wool : SHEARED
42
Spanish hog : MARRANO
44
Cut a rug : DANCED
47
Refines metal : SMELTS
50
Biscuit : SCONE
51
Salmon, after spawning : KELTS
52
Topic of discourse : THEMA
54
Fed. collector : IRS
55
Indiscretion : SLIP
56
Brit. money : STER
59
Point of no return? : ACE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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