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Kevin Boyle
Kevin Boyle

New York Times, Saturday, November 24, 1990

37-Down : Anatomical folds

Author:
Kevin Boyle
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Kevin Boyle has 32 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,991
Across
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First word of Scotland's motto : NEMO
5
Like a certain old bucket : OAKEN
10
Memorable matriarch : MAMA
14
Cranial passageway : ITER
15
Dried plum : PRUNE
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Corrida cries : OLES
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Unsympathetic quality : COLDHEARTEDNESS
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Ingratiated : ENDEARED
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"___ Days a Week," Beatles hit : EIGHT
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Triumphant exclamation : AHA
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Jacks of clubs : PAMS
25
Unruffled : COOLASACUCUMBER
33
Rara ___ : AVIS
34
Powder used in xerography : TONER
35
Full of: Suffix : OSE
36
Jud., e.g. : REL
37
Assumption : PREMISE
39
Western lizard : UTA
40
Before, to the Bard : ERE
41
Roman household gods : LARES
42
Gator's kin : CROC
43
Sidelines activity : WARMINGTHEBENCH
47
Outer: Comb. form : ECTO
48
Aegir's wife : RAN
49
Thorn, to Tacitus : SPINA
52
Partridge's perch : PEARTREE
57
African vine, also called elephant's-foot : HOTTENTOTSBREAD
60
___ Rios, Jamaican resort : OCHO
61
Accrue : ENURE
62
Prefix for disestablishmentarianism : ANTI
63
Active one : DOER
64
Aquatic mammal : OTTER
65
"The ___ Leader": Browning : LOST
Down
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Capital of Alpes-Maritimes : NICE
2
College founded by Henry VI : ETON
3
Blend : MELD
4
Trials : ORDEALS
5
Cherubini's "Armida" and "Médée" : OPERAS
6
Roman altars : ARAE
7
Member of an Islamic people : KURD
8
Suffix with persist : ENT
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Formerly, in a way : NEE
10
Belief in one causal principle : MONISM
11
Shake ___ (hie) : ALEG
12
Interlock : MESH
13
Aux. one : ASST
18
Guffaw : HAHA
19
Coyly decorous : DEMURE
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Castigate : PUNISH
24
Experts : ACES
25
Rod of baseball : CAREW
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___ barrel (in trouble) : OVERA
27
Edmonton athlete : OILER
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At the back: Lat. : ATERGO
29
Periodic visitor : COMET
30
Rivulet : BOURN
31
Thrusting sword : ESTOC
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Establish communication : REACH
37
Anatomical folds : PLICAE
38
Bombast : RANT
42
Basic : CENTRAL
44
Odysseus' adviser : MENTOR
45
Pencil adjunct : ERASER
46
Carping remark : BARB
49
Fitted with footwear : SHOD
50
Somewhat, musically : POCO
51
Spillane's "___ Jury" : ITHE
52
Brood : POUT
53
To be, in Blois : ETRE
54
Vegas rival : RENO
55
Devours : EATS
56
Work on galleys : EDIT
58
Modernist : NEO
59
Explosive inits. : TNT

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

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