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Charles J. Matonti
Charles J. Matonti

New York Times, Tuesday, November 15, 1983

58-Down : A quaff that quenches

Author:
Charles J. Matonti
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { J K Q X }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Charles J. Matonti has 8 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,425
Across
1
Injure : HARM
5
Origin : ROOT
9
He painted the Last Supper surrealistically : DALI
13
The Hoosier Poet : RILEY
14
Long : ITCH
15
Aid a raider : ABET
16
Alda and King : ALANS
17
Right of suffrage : VOTE
18
Solomonesque : WISE
19
Prokofiev's "The Love ___" : FORTHREEORANGES
22
Above, in poesy : OER
23
Kind of trip : EGO
24
Woodward's 1957 Oscar winner, with "The" : THREEFACESOFEVE
33
Check for Champion : REIN
34
Deadlocked, as a jury : HUNG
35
Kind of arch. : BYZ
36
Roof part : EAVE
37
Mild cigar : CLARO
39
Evening, in Evian : SOIR
40
Consumed : ATE
41
Word with stay or sail : MAIN
42
Forearm feature : ULNA
43
Nursery group : THREELITTLEPIGS
48
Bacheller hero : DRI
49
Attention : EAR
50
Brecht-Weill opus, with "The" : THREEPENNYOPERA
59
Rime : HOAR
60
"___ go bragh" : ERIN
61
Solomon's sire : DAVID
62
Geyserite : OPAL
63
Raja's wife : RANI
64
Socially superior : ELITE
65
Astronaut Sally : RIDE
66
Thérèse and Jeanne: Abbr. : STES
67
Dover dish : SOLE
Down
1
Hawaiian bay : HILO
2
Like Nike : ALAR
3
Split : RENT
4
"One, two, button ___" : MYSHOE
5
Mexican muralist : RIVERA
6
Western Indian : OTOE
7
Eight: Prefix : OCTO
8
"___ Business Like ... " : THERESNO
9
Nietzsche's "The ___ Day" : DAWNOF
10
" ... carry ___ stick" : ABIG
11
___-majesté : LESE
12
Suffixes for some citizens : ITES
13
U.K. fliers : RAF
20
Zebra controlling Lions and Bears : REF
21
Keyed up : AGOG
24
It can be Dutch : TREAT
25
Moor : HEATH
26
Ohio or Missouri : RIVER
27
Pittsburgh-to-Providence dir. : ENE
28
Celebrate in plainsong : CHANT
29
Prefix for Asia : EUR
30
Christ stopped here in fiction : EBOLI
31
Olympics activity : VYING
32
Prophet and Pound : EZRAS
37
Two-legged measuring instruments : CALIPERS
38
Twice 26 to Tertullian : LII
39
Dine : SUP
41
Poet's pond : MERE
44
Channel conqueror: 1926 : EDERLE
45
McEnroe's sport : TENNIS
46
Minstrel's melody : LAY
47
Disintegrates : ERODES
50
One day a week is his : THOR
51
Pueblo people : HOPI
52
Electric catfish : RAAD
53
Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
54
Ennead : NINE
55
___ Alto : PALO
56
Good's antithesis : EVIL
57
Solemnity : RITE
58
A quaff that quenches : ADE

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