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Bryant White
Bryant White

New York Times, Friday, January 29, 1993

39-Down : Jodie Foster's "Little Man ___"

Author:
Bryant White
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 263 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Bryant White has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 29 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,788
Across
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A friend of Athos : ARAMIS
7
Sealing-wax ingredient : LAC
10
British field marshal: W.W. II : GORT
14
___ morocco (leather) : LEVANT
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Actress Kaminska : IDA
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Mars: Comb. form : AREO
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Complete failure : FIASCO
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Spoil : MAR
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Actress Foch : NINA
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GOSILVERTS? : SILVERINGOTS
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Pygmalion's ivory statue : GALATEA
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Type of slipper : BALLET
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Character in Meyerbeer's "Robert the Devil" : ALICE
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Dawson of N.F.L. fame : LEN
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Court hearings : OYERS
32
Metz evening : SOIR
33
Hot, violent Arabian wind : SIMOOM
35
THE GI? : PIECESOFEIGHT
40
Devonshire city : EXETER
41
Author O'Flaherty : LIAM
43
Donee's opposite : GIVER
47
Thalassic locale : SEA
48
Main artery : AORTA
49
Loci for gladiatorial combats : ARENAE
51
Hay-fever cause : RAGWEED
53
"ISLAND"? : LOSTTREASURE
56
One opposed : ANTI
57
Laceration : RIP
58
Shipworm : TEREDO
62
Low is one : GEAR
63
Cinnabar, e.g. : ORE
64
Lurched : REELED
65
Escutcheon's inner border : ORLE
66
Mardi Gras V.I.P. : REX
67
Whirled about : EDDIED
Down
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TV alien : ALF
2
Legal defendants : REI
3
Astaire's daughter : AVA
4
Boston event: March 5, 1770 : MASSACRE
5
Goad : INCITE
6
Decorative scarf : STOLE
7
Whitewash : LIME
8
Shebat's successor : ADAR
9
West Indian native : CARIB
10
Tall and awkward : GANGLY
11
A troupial : ORIOLE
12
Lessee : RENTER
13
Skoal, etc. : TOASTS
21
Small suitcases : VALISES
22
A Judd : NAOMI
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Argon, e.g. : GAS
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Sagging : ALOP
25
CLIX trisected : LIII
29
Ham it up : EMOTE
30
"I have ___ for the future ... ": Hoover : NOFEARS
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Madonna book : SEX
34
Poetic contraction : OER
36
Horn: Comb. form : CERAT
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Stared angrily : GLOWERED
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Employ : HIRE
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Jodie Foster's "Little Man ___" : TATE
42
Alfred E. Neuman's magazine : MAD
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Nocturnal African primate : GALAGO
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Mangle user : IRONER
45
Chaste : VESTAL
46
All : ENTIRE
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Mutually determined : AGREED
50
Result of fallibility : ERROR
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Other, in Orly : AUTRE
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Hibernia : EIRE
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Summit : APEX
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Whitney of gin fame : ELI
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Poor grade : DEE
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___ Fellow : ODD

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 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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