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Rand H. Burns
Rand H. Burns

New York Times, Friday, October 1, 1993

31-Down : Cloudy

Author:
Rand H. Burns
Editor:
Mel Taub
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { X }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6 Grid has duplicate clues.
Rand H. Burns has 6 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 21 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 16,033
Across
1
Romance : WOO
4
Flivvers : CARS
8
Assassin : SLAYER
14
Continental peak : ALP
15
Incantation start : ABRA
16
Founder of Jesuit order : LOYOLA
17
Section of Brooklyn : FLATBUSH
19
Willamette Valley locale : OREGON
20
Dish mix : SALAD
21
Cloudy : LOWERING
23
Made a gaffe : ERRED
26
Sun Yat-___ : SEN
27
Cloudy : SUSPICIOUS
30
Late court star-commentator : ASHE
34
Iris's bow : ARC
35
People, in Potsdam : VOLK
36
Musical liability : TINEAR
38
City on the Meuse : LIEGE
40
Designer Claiborne : LIZ
42
Gram. case : NOMIN
43
Mrs. Rodriguez, e.g. : SENORA
45
Kempt : NEAT
47
Mamie's man : IKE
48
Lowest female voice : ALTO
49
Cloudy : LUGUBRIOUS
52
Imbibe : SIP
53
Media coup : SCOOP
54
Cloudy : OVERCAST
59
Ponce de León namesakes : JUANS
62
Is inconstant : VARIES
63
In the style of El Cid's foe : MORESQUE
66
Driving force : ENGINE
67
Newsman Sevareid : ERIC
68
Diminutive ending : ULE
69
Headlands : NESSES
70
Incubation site : NEST
71
Large cervid : ELK
Down
1
Compatriots of Wacs and Waves : WAFS
2
Spanish pot : OLLA
3
Cloudy : OPALESCENT
4
Hack : CABDRIVER
5
___ Dhabi, U.A.E. : ABU
6
Trans. lines : RRS
7
Montreal-born comedian : SAHL
8
Most deliberate : SLOWEST
9
Scicoloni is her real name : LOREN
10
Town near Fort Devens, Mass. : AYER
11
Practitioner of omphaloskepsis : YOGI
12
N.C. college town : ELON
13
Resounded : RANG
18
Waterproof sheet : TARP
22
Buckeye sch. : OSU
24
Environmental prefix : ECO
25
Pickling herb : DILL
27
Chili sauce : SALSA
28
Milton's "Regent of the Sun" : URIEL
29
Rubber-stamping : OKING
30
Period of 365 días : ANO
31
Cloudy : SEMIOPAQUE
32
Poetic genre of Matsuo Basho : HAIKU
33
Fish-eating eagles : ERNES
37
Subliminally adopt another's characteristics : INTROJECT
39
Stickum : GOO
41
Dionysus' dad : ZEUS
44
George Eliot, George Sand, etc. : ALIASES
46
Paradigm of easiness : ABC
50
Increases : UPS
51
Chits : IOUS
52
To-do : SCENE
54
Range part : OVEN
55
Wind indicator : VANE
56
Work units : ERGS
57
Author of "How the Other Half Lives" : RIIS
58
Investigators of funny money : TMEN
60
Void : NULL
61
Pursue : SEEK
64
Metal carrier : ORE
65
___ de veau (sweetbreads) : RIS

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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