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Roger H. Courtney
Roger H. Courtney

New York Times, Friday, January 18, 1991

18-Down : Predators, at times

Author:
Roger H. Courtney
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 244 (avg 1.29)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Roger H. Courtney has 10 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,046
Across
1
Price preceder : LIST
5
Idem : DITTO
10
Boundless : VAST
14
Done with : OVER
15
Start of a 1922 Broadway title : ABIES
16
Muslim general : AGHA
17
Moon and Telstar : SATELLITES
19
French-German river : SAAR
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Necessarily involves : ENTAILS
21
The Titan, for one : MISSILE
23
Assam, e.g. : TEA
24
Intonations : CHANTS
25
Between Scheat and Chara, e.g. : INTERSTELLAR
31
Lascivious stares : LEERS
32
Revoke a legacy : ADEEM
33
Pretend : ACT
36
You were, to Cato : ERAS
37
Pens for Porky : STIES
38
Before: Prefix : PRAE
39
Roman sun god : SOL
40
Celery stem : STALK
41
Socially active people : GOERS
42
Earthlings : TERRESTRIALS
44
Confirm : ASSURE
47
___ Addar (Cape Bon) : RAS
48
Celestial revolvers : PLANETS
50
Encloses protectively : COCOONS
54
Item for Walton : POLE
55
U.S. space shuttle : CHALLENGER
57
Mimicker : APER
58
Every 60 minutes : HORAL
59
Phillies' former manager : ELIA
60
Minus : LESS
61
Brings forth lambs : YEANS
62
Retreats : DENS
Down
1
Come in second : LOSE
2
Lendl of tennis : IVAN
3
Small paving stone : SETT
4
They pickup the tab : TREATERS
5
J. R.'s city : DALLAS
6
Relative of a stork : IBIS
7
Small songbird : TIT
8
Abound : TEEM
9
Small bones : OSSICLES
10
Coed college in Poughkeepsie : VASSAR
11
One more time : AGAIN
12
Commandment verb : SHALT
13
Vetches : TARES
18
Predators, at times : LIERS
22
Simulacrum : SHAM
25
Sights on the Seine : ILES
26
Third spouse of Poppaea Sabina : NERO
27
Greenish blue : TEAL
28
Turkic language : TATAR
29
Young Caesar was one : EDILE
30
Onions' cousins : LEEKS
33
Type of code or rug : AREA
34
Astronomer Sagan : CARL
35
Dick Tracy's wife : TESS
37
Elastic : STRETCHY
38
Polluted, as pens or minds : POISONED
40
Parched : SERE
41
Pre-meal thanks : GRACE
42
Parts of radios : TUNERS
43
Derelicts: Slang : TROLLS
44
Shock : APPAL
45
Incline : SLOPE
46
Kind of resistance : SALES
49
Ghillie, e.g. : SHOE
50
Dhu's group : CLAN
51
Oeillade : OGLE
52
No, in Nürnberg : NEIN
53
Sp. matrons : SRAS
56
Altar on high : ARA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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