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June A. Boggs
June A. Boggs

New York Times, Friday, August 24, 1990

39-Across : Dilettante

Author:
June A. Boggs
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J Q V W X }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
June A. Boggs has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,899
Across
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Row : SCRAP
6
Before surgery, in hosp. argot : PREOP
11
Thud : BAM
14
"___ in the Dark," 1982 film : ALONE
15
Chilling : EERIE
16
Scorpius neighbor : ARA
17
Hayworth title role : GILDA
18
Wading bird : STILT
19
Soused : LIT
20
Peevish : SPLENETIC
22
Angry : UPSET
24
Grapevine concern : RUMOR
25
"___ Be Kind," 1938 song : PLEASE
26
Type of earthenware : FIESTA
29
Publisher-critic Joel ___ Spingarn: 1875-1939 : ELIAS
31
A Guthrie in "Alice's Restaurant" : ARLO
32
Back another's promissory note : COSIGN
34
British builder's bar : ZED
37
Sanhedrin, e.g. : COUNCIL
39
Dilettante : ESTHETE
41
Photography abbr. : ENL
42
Most fit : HALEST
44
"Artaxerxes" composer : ARNE
45
Xinjiang oasis : HOTAN
46
Encroachment : INROAD
48
Tractable : DOCILE
51
Churchill's "___ Finest Hour" : THEIR
53
Fuming : IRATE
54
Peppery; testy : IRASCIBLE
58
Coach-and-four : RIG
59
Johnson of decathlon fame : RAFER
61
Brickell and Adams : EDIES
62
Turn right : GEE
63
Long series of woes : ILIAD
64
Springarn Medal presenter : NAACP
65
Town on the Ouse : ELY
66
Feline : CATTY
67
Exalt : ENSKY
Down
1
Flags : SAGS
2
Swindle : CLIP
3
Brötchen : ROLL
4
A star in "Rebecca": 1940 : ANDERSON
5
Certain gallery : PEANUT
6
Italian sauce : PESTO
7
Ballet movements : RETIRES
8
Stoltz of "Mask" : ERIC
9
Balm base : OIL
10
Touchy : PETULANT
11
Life raft : BALSA
12
Heavenly butter : ARIES
13
Roughened surface : MATTE
21
Make abnormally lean : EMACIATE
23
Footlike part : PES
25
Filthy places : PIGSTIES
26
Confront : FACE
27
Mangle : IRON
28
Jewish month : ELUL
30
Taradiddles : LIES
33
Spanish stew : OLLA
34
The mark of sorrow : ZERO
35
Pittsburgh suburb : ETNA
36
Doing : DEED
38
Irritable : CHOLERIC
40
Nag : HARRIDAN
43
Beseech : ENTREAT
45
Belt : HIT
47
___ Creed: A.D. 325 : NICENE
48
"Dies Irae" is one : DIRGE
49
Protruding window : ORIEL
50
Shrewd : CAGEY
52
Strong : HARDY
54
"___ Die": Gide : IFIT
55
Predispose : BIAS
56
Leaky, in Lübeck : LECK
57
Make out : ESPY
60
___ rigueur (literally) : ALA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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