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C. McInerney
C. McInerney

New York Times, Friday, September 24, 1993

54-Across : Excites

Author:
C. McInerney
Editor:
Mel Taub
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 12, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
C. McInerney has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 16,026
Across
1
Little despot : SATRAP
7
Coxcomb : FOP
10
Marionette man : SARG
14
Celia's alias in "As You Like It" : ALIENA
15
Gorki's river : OKA
16
"___ Hand Luke" : COOL
17
Forthrightness : CANDOR
18
Hurt : AIL
19
___ et orbi : URBI
20
Royal Landau? : PURPLEMARTIN
23
Medal ___ : OFHONOR
26
"Downstairs" employee : SERVANT
27
Flight balustrade? : RAIL
28
Koppel : TED
30
Miss Pym's creator : TEY
31
Erle's Street : DELLA
33
Marshal Earp : WYATT
35
Hill dweller : ANT
38
Forster's "Howards ___" : END
39
Eat like a bird? : SWALLOW
41
B'klyn campus : LIU
42
Beam : RAY
43
Of a flu bug : VIRAL
44
Brief bios : OBITS
46
Give the pink slip : CAN
47
Leno's employer : NBC
49
Wingding? : LARK
50
King Arthur's mother : IGRAINE
54
Excites : AROUSES
56
Hawk's sorrowful opponent? : MOURNINGDOVE
58
Station : POST
59
SSW opposite : NNE
60
Woodchuck : WEJACK
64
___ quam videri : ESSE
65
Bren or Sten : GUN
66
Brutus, Cicero and others : ETALII
67
Lecher's look : LEER
68
Form a lap : SIT
69
Couch : DAYBED
Down
1
Parisian bag : SAC
2
Neighbor of Ga. : ALA
3
Grass's "The ___ Drum" : TIN
4
Communist survey? : REDPOLL
5
"God is a verb / Not ___": Fuller : ANOUN
6
Imitate a bird? : PARROT
7
Percheron babe : FOAL
8
Steinbeck's Joads, e.g. : OKIES
9
S. Carolinian : PALMETTO
10
Contemptible : SCURVY
11
Main trunk : AORTA
12
Batman's bird? : ROBIN
13
Sparkle : GLINT
21
Antebellum : PREWAR
22
"There ___ sides to every..." : ARETWO
23
Salesman's quest : ORDER
24
Matador's final passes : FAENA
25
Johnson of "The Front Page" : HILDY
29
Poet Thomas : DYLAN
32
"___ as a turkey-gobbler": O. Henry : ASVAIN
34
"Anyone who hates ... dogs can't be ___": W. C. Fields : ALLBAD
35
Elia, to Lamb : ALIAS
36
Saltpetre : NITRE
37
Sources of ivory : TUSKS
40
Profits : WINNINGS
45
Sad Leno? : BLUEJAY
46
Plains name : CARTER
48
Woke up the birds? : CROWED
50
Force : IMPEL
51
Silly Mother? : GOOSE
52
Charlotte ___ : RUSSE
53
Lassitude : ENNUI
55
___ Culp Hobby, D.D.E.'s H.E.W. Sec. : OVETA
57
Polite fellow : GENT
61
Vestment for Father Brown : ALB
62
Compagnie condensed : CIE
63
Josh : KID

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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