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Larry Goldhirsch
Larry Goldhirsch

New York Times, Saturday, September 21, 1985

62-Across : Plant of the legume family

Author:
Larry Goldhirsch
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { B Q X }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Larry Goldhirsch has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,101
Across
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Performs christies : SKIS
5
Trapper's trophy : PELT
9
Treadle : PEDAL
14
Shade : TINT
15
Foster : REAR
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Read book : ALIVE
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Destroy : UNDO
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Killer whale : ORCA
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Albright and Falana : LOLAS
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Club moss's kin : FERN
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"On Liberty" author : JOHNSMILL
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Heavy wool cloth : FRIEZE
25
Davis Cup captain : ASHE
26
Egyptian cotton : MACO
28
___ Last Theorem, math wonder : FERMATS
33
Nut bearers : PECANTREES
37
Land of Zhob and Zor : ASIA
38
"Nor ever did ___ one": Wilmot : AWISE
39
Marmon, e.g. : CAR
40
Prevent, legally : ESTOP
41
No one, to Nero : NEMO
42
Trevi trio : THREECOINS
44
Spanish V.I.P. : GRANDEE
46
Deserve : EARN
47
Largest nation: Abbr. : USSR
49
Argus and Cerberus : GUARDS
53
Heavy burden : MILLSTONE
57
Bell the cat : DARE
58
Jocose : COMIC
59
Meow's big brother : ROAR
60
Mine passage : ADIT
61
Mezzo-soprano Marilyn : HORNE
62
Plant of the legume family : ANIL
63
"___ 18," Uris novel : MILA
64
That is: Lat. : IDEST
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Dutch portraitist : 17th century : LELY
66
Cobbler's concern : SOLE
Down
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Cram : STUFF
2
Baseball Hall of Famer : KINER
3
Lemur of Madagascar : INDRI
4
He cuts, shapes and builds : STONEMASON
5
Scheme : PROJECT
6
Saarinen : EERO
7
Lake in Russia : LACHA
8
Double-ticket commuter : TRANSFEREE
9
Stadium at Princeton : PALMER
10
The Morlocks' victims in a Wells book : ELOI
11
Only Englishman buried in Arlington : DILL
12
Grandparental : AVAL
13
Author Whitten : LES
22
Lasses : SHES
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Novelist Grey : ZANE
27
Suitable for the Boston Pops : ORCHESTRAL
29
He played Lou Grant's boss : MASONADAMS
30
Italian wine region : ASTI
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The act of: Suffix : TION
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Enervates : SAPS
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Swain's symptom : PANG
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Water jug : EWER
35
Dome on the range : CIMA
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Concha's locale : EAR
40
Raw silk color : ECRU
42
Kinski role: 1979 : TESS
43
With avidity : EAGERLY
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Melodious : DULCET
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TV exec Arledge : ROONE
50
Gildersleeve's medium : RADIO
51
W African baboon : DRILL
52
Caterpillar hairs : SETAE
53
Imperative, e.g. : MOOD
54
Nagy of Hungary : IMRE
55
Brazilian city : LINS
56
Certain striker's target : NAIL
58
"___ Pipa," renowned Chinese play : CHI

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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