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Evelyn Benshoof
Evelyn Benshoof

New York Times, Monday, October 27, 1986

47-Down : Vaulted

Author:
Evelyn Benshoof
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { C J Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 248 (avg 1.34)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Evelyn Benshoof has 71 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,502
Across
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Move briskly : TROT
5
Rhyme scheme : ABBA
9
Absolute : UTTER
14
Lose a lap : RISE
15
Fish-eating bird : LOON
16
Prize money : PURSE
17
Actor Dixon : IVAN
18
Tedious : LONG
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Rhine pumice rock : TRASS
20
Rotate : TAKETURNS
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Like some needs : UNMET
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Jubilant : ELATED
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Gobs : TARS
26
Woven fabric : MESH
29
Successively : INTURN
33
Be meddlesome : SNOOP
37
___ de force : TOUR
39
Concept, to Colette : IDEE
40
City W of St. Louis : LADUE
41
Hockey's Bobby : ORR
42
Walks wearily : PLODS
43
" ... prepared ___ for my steps": Psalm 57 : ANET
44
Early 1900's art cult : DADA
45
Tears apart : RENDS
46
Conditional release : PAROLE
48
Otherwise : ELSE
50
The ___, in E England : FENS
52
Postulate : ASSERT
57
"___ luego!" : HASTA
60
Ponders : TURNSOVER
63
Describing a hopeless situation : ALLUP
64
Leave out : OMIT
65
Church part : NAVE
66
Actor Roger from London : MOORE
67
Descartes : RENE
68
Together, musically : ADUE
69
Disburse : SPEND
70
Bring about : MAKE
71
Device on a loom : REED
Down
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No longer fresh : TRITE
2
Emulator : RIVAL
3
Important Japanese port : OSAKA
4
Doctrine : TENET
5
Refer indirectly to : ALLUDE
6
Ill-mannered person : BOOR
7
City on the Rhine : BONN
8
Feeling of dread : ANGST
9
Cause disorder : UPTURN
10
Subway-entrance device : TURNSTILE
11
British streetcar : TRAM
12
Being: Lat. : ESSE
13
Be at ease : REST
21
City near Phoenix : TEMPE
25
Broadcast : AIR
27
Greek portico : STOA
28
Throng : HORDE
30
___ Thani, Thai province : UDON
31
Actor Foxx : REDD
32
Loch of monster fame : NESS
33
Blow : SLAP
34
Zola novel : NANA
35
River to the Baltic : ODER
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Not in due order of succession : OUTOFTURN
38
Soviet river : URAL
42
Fourth Estate : PRESS
44
Retreat : DEN
47
Vaulted : LEAPED
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S. C. river : SANTEE
51
Blizzard : STORM
53
Detecting apparatus : SONAR
54
Dodge : EVADE
55
Theatrical entertainment : REVUE
56
Cornered : TREED
57
Amateur radio operators : HAMS
58
Poorly proportioned : ALOP
59
Liquor flavoring : SLOE
61
Swedish seaport : UMEA
62
Curling site : RINK

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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