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Fred Toole
Fred Toole

New York Times, Monday, October 8, 1990

24-Down : Responds

Author:
Fred Toole
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q V X Y }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Fred Toole has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,944
Across
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Genesis shepherd : ABEL
5
Financial resources : PURSE
10
Dutch cheese : EDAM
14
Greek administrative area : DEME
15
Fragrance : AROMA
16
Kind of ton or cycle : MEGA
17
"The Laughing Philosopher" : DEMOCRITUS
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First name of 31 Down : OMAR
20
Basic foodstuff : STAPLE
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Loud talkers : STENTORS
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Comic Mischa ___: 1905-67 : AUER
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Lascivious look : LEER
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"Treasure of the Sierra ___" : MADRE
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Letter before tee : ESS
32
Second U.S. President : ADAMS
35
Made a hole-in-one : ACED
36
TV newsman : RATHER
38
His wife turned to salt : LOT
39
Pops' mates : MOMS
40
Rhode Island, the ___ State : OCEAN
41
Billion or million attachment : AIRE
42
Sis's sibling : BRO
43
Bishops' caps : MITERS
44
Russian ruler : CZAR
45
Licorice flavoring : ANISE
47
___ Lanka : SRI
48
Play portion : SCENE
49
Part of a baseball : SEAM
51
Wife, in Wiesbaden : FRAU
53
Originators : CREATORS
57
Great Danish poet: 1587-1637 : ARREBO
61
Stop : HALT
62
Raging; frantic : DEMONIACAL
64
Author Gardner : ERLE
65
Concerning : ANENT
66
Sped : TORE
67
Unwanted plant : WEED
68
Gold medalist Carl or Steve : LEWIS
69
Service club : ELKS
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Sums up : ADDS
2
Red vegetable : BEET
3
Mme. Bovary : EMMA
4
Large spotted cats : LEOPARDS
5
Cole Porter song : PAREE
6
Site of the Tell legend : URI
7
Decays : ROTS
8
Pornography : SMUT
9
Studio stand : EASEL
10
Overacted : EMOTED
11
Throw into mental disarray : DEMORALIZE
12
Culture medium : AGAR
13
Roman war god : MARS
18
Crime solver's aid : CLUE
22
Close by : NEAR
24
Responds : REACTS
26
Deadly African snake : MAMBA
27
Potential oak : ACORN
28
Young lady, in Lyon : DEMOISELLE
30
Range animal : STEER
31
"Dr. Zhivago" film star : SHARIF
33
Vaudeville's ___ and Mack : MORAN
34
Cubic meter : STERE
36
Louis XIV, e.g. : ROI
37
Annapolis grad. : ENS
41
Precise : ACCURATE
43
Pork or beef : MEAT
46
On chairs : SEATED
48
Hindu wrap : SARI
50
Of manner or form : MODAL
52
Talks wildly : RANTS
53
Masticate : CHEW
54
Scarce : RARE
55
Lévesque of Québec : RENE
56
Sawbill : SMEW
58
Environmentalist's subj. : ECOL
59
Arf or woof : BARK
60
Corrida cheers : OLES
63
Navy's C.I.A. : ONI

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

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