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Richard Silvestri
New York Times, Wednesday, January 24, 1990
45-Down : Expresses
Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Richard Silvestri has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 84 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 P | 2 A | 3 C | 4 T | 5 B | 6 D | 7 L | 8 B | 9 A | 10 R | 11 A |
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12 I | B | A | R | 13 E | W | E | 14 S | 15 U | R | G | E | D |
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16 E | L | L | O | 17 R | A | V | I | 18 N | I | O | B | E |
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19 R | E | F | U | 20 S | E | R | E | F | 21 U | S | E | |||
22 B | U | F | F | E | T | B | U | F | 23 F | 24 E | 25 T |
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26 A | 27 M | 28 U | L | E | T | 29 O | N | S | A | L | E |
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30 L | A | N | E | S | 31 S | 32 C | 33 R | A | G | 34 B | A | N |
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35 C | T | R | S | 36 F | L | O | U | T | 37 F | L | I | T |
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38 A | T | E | 39 D | O | Y | E | N | 40 D | I | E | N | E |
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41 P | E | E | 42 D | E | E | 43 L | E | S | S | E | R |
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44 P | O | L | I | S | H | 45 P | 46 O | 47 L | I | S | H | |||
48 M | I | N | U | T | E | M | I | N | 49 U | 50 T | 51 E |
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52 P | 53 A | 54 L | M | S | 55 T | H | A | N | 56 E | V | I | L |
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57 F | L | E | E | T | 58 S | E | V | E | 59 T | E | N | S |
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60 C | L | A | D | 61 R | E | D | 62 S | A | T | E |
© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,687
Across
1
Covenant : PACT
5
Pkg. : BDL
8
Screen vamp : BARA
12
Support beam : IBAR
13
Cote mothers : EWES
15
Spurred : URGED
16
It, in Mexico : ELLO
17
Sitarist Shankar : RAVI
18
Weeper of myth : NIOBE
19
Turn down trash? : REFUSEREFUSE
22
Smorgasbord smack? : BUFFETBUFFET
26
Talisman : AMULET
29
Reduced in price : ONSALE
30
Highway divisions : LANES
31
Rawboned one : SCRAG
34
Interdiction : BAN
35
Midpts. : CTRS
36
Mock : FLOUT
37
Move like a butterfly : FLIT
38
Refreshed the inner man : ATE
39
Senior member : DOYEN
40
Compound with two double bonds : DIENE
41
Carolina river : PEEDEE
43
___ Antilles : LESSER
44
Warsaw wax? : POLISHPOLISH
48
Tiny time period? : MINUTEMINUTE
52
Practices prestidigitation : PALMS
55
Comparison word : THAN
56
Sinful : EVIL
57
Argosy : FLEET
58
Golfer Ballesteros : SEVE
59
Change for a twenty : TENS
60
Bedecked : CLAD
61
Checkers choice : RED
62
Surfeit : SATE
Down
1
Stevedore's spot : PIER
2
Up to snuff : ABLE
3
Dogie : CALF
4
Worries : TROUBLES
5
Deprived : BEREFT
6
Doc, for one : DWARF
7
Mississippi River sight : LEVEE
8
Legal outlines : BRIEFS
9
Earlier than now : AGO
10
Confederate Johnny : REB
11
Dog-days drink : ADE
14
Put through a sieve : SIFT
15
Renownless : UNSUNG
20
Takes to court : SUES
21
Lusitania sinker : UBOAT
23
Aesopian output : FABLES
24
Mother of Galahad : ELAINE
25
Frame for drying clothes : TENTER
26
Dogpatch creator : ALCAPP
27
Capuchin order founder ___ da Bascio : MATTEO
28
Spin off the spool : UNREEL
31
Wily : SLY
32
Cedar Rapids college : COE
33
Shutout spoiler : RUN
36
Mountain wind : FOEHN
37
Seines : FISHNETS
39
Proceed no more : DESIST
40
Lucy's mate : DESI
42
Switched to the low beam : DIMMED
43
Delineated : LIMNED
45
Expresses : PUTS
46
Different : OTHER
47
Head for the exit : LEAVE
49
Iris layer : UVEA
50
Hair dye : TINT
51
Additionally : ELSE
52
Promoted pvt. : PFC
53
Wholly : ALL
54
Grazing ground : LEA
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 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.