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Arthur W. Palmer
New York Times, Friday, February 15, 1991
5-Down : Mechanic's job
Author:
Arthur W. Palmer
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Arthur W. Palmer has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
1 M | 2 A | 3 S | 4 S | 5 O | 6 G | 7 L | 8 E | 9 D | 10 S | 11 C | 12 O | 13 T |
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14 E | S | T | O | 15 I | R | A | T | E | 16 T | A | L | E |
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17 S | H | U | F | 18 F | L | E | T | H | E | 19 C | A | R | D | S |
20 S | E | N | T | R | I | E | S | 21 A | G | L | E | T |
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22 W | A | N | T | 23 M | 24 I | M | E | |||||||
25 S | 26 P | 27 R | A | N | G | 28 T | I | M | E | 29 A | 30 P | 31 T |
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32 A | L | A | R | 33 S | A | N | E | R | 34 S | R | A |
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35 G | E | N | E | 36 T | 37 I | C | M | U | T | A | 38 T | I | O | N |
39 A | B | E | 40 O | G | R | E | S | 41 H | A | N | K |
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42 S | E | E | 43 N | E | A | R | 44 S | 45 T | I | N | G | S |
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46 C | I | T | Y | 47 I | T | E | R | |||||||
48 B | 49 L | 50 A | R | E | 51 T | R | E | A | T | 52 I | 53 S | 54 E |
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55 R | E | F | O | R | 56 M | 57 M | O | V | E | M | E | N | T | S |
58 A | T | A | N | 59 A | V | R | I | L | 60 E | T | E | S |
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61 G | O | R | E | 62 O | P | E | N | S | 63 N | O | T | E |
© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,074
Across
1
Concentrate : MASS
5
Eyed amorously : OGLED
10
___-free : SCOT
14
This, in Tijuana : ESTO
15
Boiling : IRATE
16
Kind of bearer : TALE
17
D.A.R. CHEST : SHUFFLETHECARDS
20
They stand guard : SENTRIES
21
Ornamental tag : AGLET
22
"For ___ of a nail ... " : WANT
23
Mummer : MIME
25
Arose : SPRANG
28
Kind of table : TIME
29
Fitting : APT
32
Controversial apple spray : ALAR
33
More reasonable : SANER
34
Mrs., in Mexico : SRA
35
GET NICE : GENETICMUTATION
39
Burrows of Broadway : ABE
40
Hideous giants : OGRES
41
Unit of yarn : HANK
42
Episcopate : SEE
43
Close by : NEAR
44
Overcharges : STINGS
46
Nancy or Helena : CITY
47
Passage for Pompey : ITER
48
Sound of bugles : BLARE
51
Monograph : TREATISE
55
STEM VENOM : REFORMMOVEMENTS
58
___ impasse : ATAN
59
Mars follower : AVRIL
60
Savoie summers : ETES
61
Gusset : GORE
62
Uncaps : OPENS
63
Memorandum : NOTE
Down
1
Botch : MESS
2
Tennis great : ASHE
3
Daze : STUN
4
Computer equipment : SOFTWARE
5
Mechanic's job : OILING
6
Salute : GREET
7
Former coins in Riga : LATS
8
Biblical verb ending : ETH
9
Aberdeen river : DEE
10
Milieu for Drew : STAGE
11
Poet Sandburg : CARL
12
Ye ___ shoppe : OLDE
13
Assay : TEST
18
Kukla's friend : FRAN
19
Funt's funmaker : CAMERA
23
Without : MINUS
24
"___ a man with seven wives" : IMET
25
Romans-fleuves : SAGAS
26
Newcomer to West Point : PLEBE
27
Hindu queen : RANEE
28
Less risky : TAMER
29
Mongolian, e.g. : ASIAN
30
Trident part : PRONG
31
Cisterns : TANKS
33
Tern : SCRAY
36
More fashionable : TONIER
37
"___ no kick ... " : IGET
38
Triskaidekaphobic item : THIRTEEN
44
Wall Street category : STEELS
45
Harnessed Clydesdales : TEAM
46
Hag : CRONE
47
___ S. Cobb : IRVIN
48
Vaunt : BRAG
49
Mother of Apollo : LETO
50
Miles away : AFAR
51
Sped : TORE
52
Division word : INTO
53
Galley term : STET
54
To be: Lat. : ESSE
56
Hua predecessor : MAO
57
Giants' Ottis Anderson, for short : MVP
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.