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Nikki Tenfelde
Nikki Tenfelde

New York Times, Saturday, November 29, 1980

49-Down : Ancient

Author:
Nikki Tenfelde
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.17, Min Word Len: 4, Missing: { F J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 86, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Nikki Tenfelde has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,344
Across
1
Lassoed : ROPED
6
Rub clean : WIPE
10
Edicts : ACTS
14
President ousted by Amin in 1971 : OBOTE
15
Solar disk : ATEN
16
Like a 1913 Liberty Head nickel : RARE
17
Marine skeleton : CORAL
18
Tiber tributary : NERA
19
Seaport in Algeria : ORAN
20
Informal party with light refreshments : KETTLEDRUM
22
Clips : MOWS
23
Moderate : REASONABLE
25
Yoke : TEAM
29
Route 1 is one : ARTERY
30
One receiving a share : ALLOTTEE
32
Rabbit fur : LAPIN
37
Repellent in a closet : CAMPHOR
38
Bent : PRONATE
40
Japanese word meaning "first generation" : ISSEI
41
Ripples or rustles : CRINKLES
42
Halo; nimbus : GLORIA
45
Kind of wave : HEAT
46
Disjointed : INCOHERENT
50
Reverberation : ROLL
51
Prophetic disclosure : APOCALYPSE
57
Encompassed by : AMID
58
One place to see an ibis : NILE
59
Merits : EARNS
60
Subdued : TAME
61
Word between speak and mind : ONES
62
Country youth : SWAIN
63
Utopian spot : EDEN
64
Famed T-man : NESS
65
Narrow passage in an English cathedral : SLYPE
Down
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What Sisyphus pushed : ROCK
2
Joseph Robinson plays it : OBOE
3
Algeciras is one : PORT
4
Berliner's budget : ETAT
5
Secluded valley : DELL
6
Aeneas was one : WANDERER
7
Battologize : ITERATE
8
Examine : PERUSE
9
Charm : ENAMOR
10
It rises from a rose : AROMA
11
Kin of a honey locust : CAROB
12
Fishing net : TRAWL
13
What gibberish doesn't make : SENSE
21
Mother of Azan : ERATO
24
Versatile material : NYLON
25
"Shut up!" in Siena : TACI
26
Greek W.W. II military org. : ELAS
27
What eleemosynars give : ALMS
28
Brood or dawdle : MOPE
31
Region of the femur : THIGH
33
Egyptian cross symbolizing life : ANKH
34
"___ Moon," 1920 song : PALE
35
Sweet spire : ITEA
36
Set of boxes : NEST
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Ida or Ino : PRINCESS
39
Lariat : RIATA
41
Some Mardi Gras celebrants : CREOLES
43
"___ Me," Bill Withers hit song : LEANON
44
Plant also called "live-forever" : ORPINE
46
Enraged : IRATE
47
Tuareg, e.g. : NOMAD
48
Region, to Ruskin : CLIME
49
Ancient : OLDEN
52
Minus : LESS
53
Small boat : YAWL
54
Preacher's advice : PRAY
55
Shred : SNIP
56
Anglo-Saxon laborer : ESNE

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

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