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Eileen Lexau
Eileen Lexau

New York Times, Friday, December 21, 1990

41-Down : Chummy, in Cheshire

Author:
Eileen Lexau
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Eileen Lexau has 17 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 10 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 15,018
Across
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Cringe : GROVEL
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Noted : FAMED
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Private chapel : ORATORY
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Looked for food : FORAGED
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Concise : LACONIC
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Pizza spice : OREGANO
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Penrod's dog : DUKE
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Whit : HOOT
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Astringent : ALUM
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Coarse person : APE
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Ski-slope mound : MOGUL
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Chemical compound : AZIDE
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Firm : SET
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"I smell ___" : ARAT
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Treats maliciously : SPITES
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Sammy Cahn is one : LYRIST
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Dawdled : MOONED
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Lotion plant : ALOE
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River in Poland, to Germans : ALLE
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Deceives : COZENS
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Less tight : LOOSER
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Preadults : MINORS
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Mild oath : DANG
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___ de plume : NOM
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Anatomical passages : ITERS
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Chubby : PUDGY
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River in Portugal : TUA
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Plagiarize : CRIB
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Indonesian island : ALOR
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Spring period : LENT
48
Lesser nobleman, in Spain : HIDALGO
50
Canada goose : OUTARDE
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Made into law : ENACTED
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In a silly way : INANELY
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Glacial ridge : ESKAR
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Cheap and gaudy : TAWDRY
Down
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Soft hail : GRAUPEL
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Raffish : RACKETY
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North American Indian : OTOE
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Ludwig ___ Beethoven : VON
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Silkworm : ERI
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Roofed churchyard structures : LYCHGATES
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Ord, e.g. : FORT
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"You ___ There" : ARE
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Periodicals : MAGAZINES
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A goal of the French Revolution : EGALITE
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Stripped : DENUDED
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___ the hills : OLDAS
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Dolt : FOOL
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Cathedral tops : DOMES
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Baseball call : OUT
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"Marilyn" author's family : MAILERS
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Bean and Welles : ORSONS
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Excuse, sometimes : APOLOGY
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Goodbye : SOLONG
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Kind of hog : RAZORBACK
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Clumsy : MALADROIT
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Yellow variety of quartz : CITRINE
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Iroquois Indians : ONEIDAS
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Computer-terminal worker, e.g. : ENTERER
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In a blunt manner : ROUNDLY
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Round French loaf : MICHE
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Two-piano piece : DUO
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Chummy, in Cheshire : MATEY
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Trudge : PLOD
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Ripening agent : AGER
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Bring an aircraft down : LAND
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Like balloons: Abbr. : LTA
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Actress Merkel : UNA
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Shooter marble : TAW

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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