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Daniel Girardi
Daniel Girardi

New York Times, Saturday, January 26, 1991

13-Down : Cakewalks

Author:
Daniel Girardi
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.28, Missing: { F H J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 263 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 88, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Daniel Girardi has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,054
Across
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Commit a felony : STEAL
6
Court order : STAY
10
Clubs : SAPS
14
Strap for a draft animal : TRACE
15
Flubs : ERRS
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Laconic : CURT
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VCR button : RESET
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Examine diligently, with "over" : PORE
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Food-thickening agent : AGAR
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Skunk River city : AMES
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Carpenter's joint : MITER
22
Computer list : MENU
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Grammatical case: Abbr : NOM
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"Endymion" poet : KEATS
25
Solar-vs.-lunar year period : EPACT
26
Does a farming chore : GLEANS
28
Lightweight fabrics : ETAMINES
30
Ropes for training horses : LONGES
31
Invitation request : RSVP
32
Prize : ESTEEM
33
Defunct U.S. coins : EAGLES
38
Calculate : CAST
41
Water carrier : SLUICE
42
Charm : ENTRANCE
46
Creeds : TENETS
47
Ingredient of some pralines : SYRUP
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High priest: Luke 3:2 : ANNAS
50
Barfly : SOT
51
These may be split : PEAS
52
A Mayflower passenger : ALDEN
53
Napoleon won here: 1796 : LODI
54
He wrote "I Like It Here" : AMIS
55
Actor in "Pretty Woman" : GERE
56
Group of witches : COVEN
57
Cager Archibald : NATE
58
Hometown of soprano Mitchell : ENID
59
Charpentier creation : OPERA
60
French writer or town : ANET
61
Slippery : EELY
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Shoulders of roads : BERMS
Down
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Hulk Hogan hold : STRANGLE
2
Organ devices : TREMOLOS
3
Relief : EASEMENT
4
A-one : ACES
5
Tennis term : LET
6
Cuttlefish : SEPIA
7
Meadowlands performer : TROTTER
8
Police-blotter data : ARRESTS
9
W.W. I battle site : YSER
10
Shore-dinner dish : SCAMPI
11
Difficult and distasteful : AUGEAN
12
Cavort : PRANCE
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Cakewalks : STRUTS
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Galley worker : MESSMAN
24
Patella : KNEECAP
25
Transfixes: Var. : EMPALES
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It couldn't wither Cleo : AGE
29
Ancient Iranian language : AVESTAN
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Long Tom : GUN
35
Is postponed : LIESOVER
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Outermost cell layer : ECTODERM
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Lyrical forms used by Dante : SESTINAS
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Kind of triangle : SCALENE
40
Climbing plant's leafless organ : TENDRIL
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Lluvia falls here : ESPANA
43
River south of Minsk : NYEMAN
44
French treaty or treatise : TRAITE
45
Type of apple : RUSSET
49
Indigent : NEEDY
52
Awry, in Yorkshire : AGEE
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Canter leisurely : LOPE
56
Short, stocky horse : COB

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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