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Kevin Boyle
Kevin Boyle

New York Times, Saturday, October 19, 1991

4-Down : Based on instincts

Author:
Kevin Boyle
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 27, Avg Word Len: 5.50, Missing: { J Q V W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.30)
Open Squares: 96, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Kevin Boyle has 32 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,320
Across
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Things done : RESGESTAE
10
Hellkite : BEAST
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Abrogation : ANNULMENT
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Division of natural objects : ORDER
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Pen and pencil salesman : STATIONER
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Bouquet sans color : AROMA
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Letters on a Polish ship : ORP
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Eastern Orthodox spiritual adviser : STARETS
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Browning's "___ Bratts" : NED
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Precipitant : RASH
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Brian of the Talking Heads : ENO
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Prima ballerina : ETOILE
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Venus' venous fluid : ICHOR
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Turner or Louise : TINA
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Adhibits : USES
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Minute : ATOMIC
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Terminal : DEPOT
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Writer Baldrige : LETITIA
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Gallimaufry : GOULASH
43
Kind of sports contract : NOCUT
45
Quinze et quinze : TRENTE
46
Member of the opposition : ANTI
49
Gr. resistance coalition : EDES
51
___ Zagora (Bulgarian city) : STARA
52
Bellwether : LEADER
54
Brit. fliers : RAF
56
W.W. I plane : SPAD
57
Shaking like a leaf : ASP
58
Carlton in "Rhoda" : DOORMAN
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"So was ___ joly whistle wel y-wet": Chaucer : HIR
62
Cippus : STELE
64
Ravage : DEPREDATE
66
What Allah revealed to Mohammed : KORAN
67
Upbeats : ANACRUSES
68
Upbeat : ARSIS
69
Aging : SENESCENT
Down
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Given to scratching the ground : RASORIAL
2
Performance amidst a performance : ENTRACTE
3
Photograph : SNAPSHOT
4
Based on instincts : GUT
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Ancient Olympic games site : ELIS
6
Buffeted : SMOTE
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Kind of farmer : TENANT
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Using no fluid : ANEROID
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To be, to Beaumarchais : ETRE
10
Rodomontade : BOAST
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"The cautious seldom ___": Confucius : ERR
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Dreamboat wrecked by a boar : ADONIS
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Mother of Dionysus : SEMELE
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Weather-affecting winds : TRADES
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Kitchen whistler : TEAPOT
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Certain primate : HOMINID
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River mouths : OUTLETS
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Spanish ceremony : RITO
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Opp. of pos. : NEG
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Tully : CICERO
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Cather's "One of ___" : OURS
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Acct. examiner : AUD
40
Stage in mitosis : ANAPHASE
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Restrict, in a way : STRAITEN
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Car-seat adjunct : HEADREST
44
Earthly : TERRENE
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"America's Icebox" : ALASKA
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Oldest Greek in the Trojan War : NESTOR
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Gradual diminutions : TAPERS
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Oriental vessel : SAMPAN
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Noble British family : EDENS
55
Burlesque : FARCE
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Concubines' confines : ODAS
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Saul's uncle and grandfather : NERS
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Minstrel's offering : LAI
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Dax duke : DUC

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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