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Wilson McBeath
Wilson McBeath

New York Times, Thursday, September 13, 1990

29-Across : Performed, as a song

Author:
Wilson McBeath
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q W X }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Wilson McBeath has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,919
Across
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Bart or Ringo : STARR
6
Mountain in Thessaly : OSSA
10
Choir member : ALTO
14
Plains home, of old : TEPEE
15
German housewife : FRAU
16
Make haste : TEAR
17
Islands off Ireland : ARANS
18
Mining center of the 1880's : TOMBSTONE
20
Wink : NICTATE
22
Philippine sea : SULU
23
Cuban cigar : HAVANA
25
Ladder component : RUNG
27
Ant's antenna : FEELER
29
Performed, as a song : RENDERED
33
Word that may stop a truck : EATS
34
Scut, e.g. : TAIL
36
Mark : GRADE
37
Mus. adaptation : ARR
38
Forcible takeover : SEIZURE
40
Nothing : NIL
41
It has wings and flies : STAGE
43
Albright of films : LOLA
44
Indolent : IDLE
45
Baker's dozen : THIRTEEN
47
Lombardi and Edwards : VINCES
49
Realtors' units : LOTS
50
Thongs attached to javelins : AMENTA
52
Flask for Pericles : OLPE
54
Thurible's contents : INCENSE
57
Creator of Lake Mead : HOOVERDAM
61
Indo-European : ARYAN
62
Chip in chips : ANTE
63
"Come Back, Little Sheba" playwright : INGE
64
Turgenev novel : SMOKE
65
State of mind : MOOD
66
N.M. resort : TAOS
67
Thralls of yore : ESNES
Down
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Smith of tennis : STAN
2
Actress Copley : TERI
3
Scenic road past Superstition Mountain : APACHETRAIL
4
Income for landlords : RENTALS
5
Make bank deposits once again : RESAVE
6
Frequently : OFTEN
7
B'way sign : SRO
8
Certain missiles : SAMS
9
Home of Ala.'s Tigers : AUBURN
10
One who brings into harmony : ATTUNER
11
Papal name : LEO
12
Basking product : TAN
13
Mesabi product : ORE
19
Ooze : SLUDGE
21
French pastry : TARTE
24
Historic battleship, or this puzzle's theme : ARIZONA
26
Famous gorge formed by the Colorado : GRANDCANYON
27
Lucullan treat : FEAST
28
Third-day creation : EARTH
30
Jewish month : ELUL
31
Post young Caesar held : EDILE
32
Strikes out : DELES
35
Brim of a chapeau : AILE
38
Colonize : SETTLE
39
Prowl hungrily : RAVEN
42
Furrowed : GROOVED
44
" ... expresses himself ___ too deep for me": Gilbert : INTERMS
46
Sprightly wit : ESPRIT
48
"___ of fire ... " : INCASE
51
Quiet actors : MIMES
53
Skelton's script-writing wife : EDNA
55
Rice beverage : SAKE
56
Compass points : ENES
57
Radio operator in a shack : HAM
58
One of Japan's top golfers : ONO
59
Ear: Comb. form : OTO
60
Past : AGO

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

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