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Virginia L. Yates
Virginia L. Yates

New York Times, Thursday, February 1, 1990

3-Down : Key ___ pie

Author:
Virginia L. Yates
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { none — this is a pangram }, Scrabble score: 315 (avg 1.68)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Virginia L. Yates has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,695
Across
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Kind of song or dance : FOLK
5
Code sounds : DAHS
9
Adult walking stick, e.g. : IMAGO
14
Netman Nastase : ILIE
15
"Support Your Local Sheriff!" actor : ELAM
16
Broods of pheasants : NIDES
17
Upward of : SOME
18
Hurting : SORE
19
Green-skinned pear : ANJOU
20
Actress Reichenberg's flambé : CREPESUZETTE
23
Hiemal vehicle : SLED
24
Broadcast : AIRED
27
Aquila's brightest star : ALTAIR
30
Kind of bath : SITZ
32
Kettle et al. : MAS
34
Freebie's cousin : PERK
35
Describing an Italian diva's pasta dish : TETRAZZINI
38
Harvard climbers : IVIES
40
"___ Dalmatians," Disney film : IOI
41
Bear and Berra : YOGIS
42
Russian count's treat : NESSELRODE
45
Mispickels : ORES
46
Catch : GET
47
What, to Watteau : QUEL
48
With wisdom : SAGELY
50
Kyongsong : SEOUL
52
Passage, anatomically : ITER
53
Meat topping à la a French marshal : SOUBISESAUCE
59
Wahine's porch : LANAI
62
An anagram for deli : IDLE
63
Bow : PROW
64
Girlfriend, in Grenada : AMIGA
65
Be chockablock : TEEM
66
Author Shere ___ : HITE
67
Mingles : MIXES
68
Chow : EATS
69
Flanders flower : YSER
Down
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Exchequer : FISC
2
Swan genus : OLOR
3
Key ___ pie : LIME
4
Giftbooks : KEEPSAKES
5
Peach Melba, for one : DESSERT
6
Audibly : ALOUD
7
German mountain range : HARZ
8
Barrie baddie : SMEE
9
Agitated : INATIZZY
10
Pitman : MINER
11
Pt. of speech : ADJ
12
Part of five Declaration of Independence signatures : GEO
13
The Beavers' sch. : OSU
21
"Whiffenpoof" singer : ELI
22
"So long!" : TATA
25
Expatriate : EMIGRE
26
Ortega or Defoe : DANIEL
27
Little action : APING
28
Antiflood embankments : LEVEES
29
Sorrowful, to Chopin : TRISTE
30
" ... fettered to an office ___": G. & S. : STOOL
31
Crocus, e.g. : IRID
33
Scaredy-cat : SISSY
36
Banshee's land : EIRE
37
Animal science : ZOOGRAPHY
39
Trees named for a Cherokee scholar : SEQUOIAS
43
Tubby's friend, Little ___ : LULU
44
Thinks well of : ESTEEMS
49
D.D.E. opponent : AES
51
Bowwood : OSAGE
52
Small land mass : ISLET
54
Snack : BITE
55
Cogitator's reward : IDEA
56
"Mila 18" author : URIS
57
Shed for pouters : COTE
58
Wide-mouthed container : EWER
59
Hasty retreat: Slang : LAM
60
"___ Blue," 1929 tune : AMI
61
Nope : NIX

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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