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Manny Nosowsky
Manny Nosowsky

New York Times, Friday, November 6, 1992

12-Down : "The ___ lama, / He's a priest": Nash

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.08, Missing: { F J Q }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 12, XRef: 0, Spans: 6, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Manny Nosowsky has 8 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 246 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,704
Across
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Aged beer : LAGER
6
Sometimes it's enough : ONCE
10
Mountain topper : SNOW
14
Corpulent : OBESE
15
See castles in Spain : TOUR
16
Kind of salad : TUNA
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Advised against a treatment : CONTRAINDICATED
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Down and ___ : OUT
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Not a pro : ANTI
22
Go around : CIRCLE
23
TV's "Knots ___" : LANDING
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LAX abbr. : ARR
27
Say it's so : AVER
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Attempt : STAB
31
Open wide, in a way : YAWN
34
Son of a son of Noah : SEMITE
37
Having a surplus : OVER
39
Greek letter : CHI
40
43
Actress Lesley ___ Warren : ANN
44
Affirmation in Ávila : SISI
45
"Remington ___" of TV : STEELE
46
Soccer great : PELE
48
Baste : TACK
50
His dragon was killed by Cadmus : ARES
51
November winners : INS
53
Ill-tempered persons : TARTARS
56
"Hammerklavier" is one : SONATA
59
Level or plane : TOOL
60
Luau instr. : UKE
63
MacLaine-Bancroft movie: 1977 : THETURNINGPOINT
66
Seine feeder : OISE
67
Top rated : AONE
68
Misanthrope : HATER
69
Red figure : LOSS
70
R.C. title : MSGR
71
"What ___ fighting for?": R. W. Service : AREWE
Down
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Batty : LOCO
2
___ Ben Adhem : ABOU
3
Officer quality : GENTLEMANLINESS
4
Superlative ending : EST
5
Watched on the VCR again : RERAN
6
Earache cause : OTITIS
7
Like limeade or iced tea : NONINTOXICATING
8
Chew the ___ (ruminate) : CUD
9
Singer Clapton : ERIC
10
Like a cloudless night : STARRY
11
Selections from a Tchaikovsky ballet : NUTCRACKERSUITE
12
"The ___ lama, / He's a priest": Nash : ONEL
13
Boggs of baseball : WADE
18
Ampersand : AND
19
Bush org., once : CIA
24
Calif. neighbor : ARIZ
25
Donated : GAVE
27
Gp. for Cahn and Kahn : ASCAP
28
Nemo's creator : VERNE
30
Plant homes : BEDS
32
Worth one's ___ : WHILE
33
Pheasant groups : NIDES
35
Cobb and Hardin : TYS
36
Give off : EMIT
38
Pothole : RUT
41
"___ alone ... ": Jer. 15:17 : ISAT
42
Fleshy fruit : PEAR
47
Mom's kin : ENATES
49
Danish money : KRONER
52
VW preceders : STU
54
___ up (dress) : TOG
55
Omega's opposite : ALPHA
56
U.S.A.F. acronym : STOL
57
Taft territory : OHIO
58
Saroyan hero : ARAM
61
Was aware of : KNEW
62
To be, in Brest : ETRE
64
" ... sed libera ___ a malo" : NOS
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Propel a randan : OAR

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

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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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