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Robert Katz
Robert Katz

New York Times, Friday, March 3, 1989

35-Down : Flounders

Author:
Robert Katz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J K Q V X Y }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Robert Katz has 73 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,360
Across
1
Ordered : BADE
5
Washed out : FADED
10
Fad : MODE
14
Change for a fiver : ONES
15
Verona's river : ADIGE
16
World's most prolific author? : ANON
17
Writer Claude ___ : ANET
18
Talking at tedious length : LONGWINDED
20
Iterates : REPEATS
22
The Pointer Sisters, e.g. : SINGERS
23
Regale : FETE
24
Building addition : ELL
25
Kind of almanac : FARMERS
28
Beliefs : CREEDS
31
Peak in Colo. : UTE
32
Its capital is Katmandu : NEPAL
34
Tire part : TREAD
36
Short distance : STEP
38
Carnegie was one : DONOR
40
Bristle : SETA
41
Magnitudes : SIZES
43
Prongs : TINES
45
Darts-game locale : PUB
46
Jai-alai baskets : CESTAS
48
Steep slopes : ESCARPS
50
"___ Lin," Scottish ballad : TAM
51
"One word in your ___ plague and madness!": Shak. : EARO
52
Jaundice : ICTERUS
56
Torments : HARROWS
59
Engage in a dorm prank : SHORTSHEET
61
Okla. Indian : OTOE
62
Describing Tonto's pal : LONE
63
Tidal bore : EAGRE
64
Wheeler or Lahr : BERT
65
Washstand item : EWER
66
Item less puissant than a pen : SWORD
67
Accretes : ADDS
Down
1
Male guinea pig : BOAR
2
Boleyn : ANNE
3
Cold storage : DEEPFREEZE
4
Think highly of : ESTEEM
5
Stumbled : FALTERED
6
Hubbubs : ADOS
7
Hubbub : DIN
8
Roe : EGGS
9
More moist, as flowers at dawn : DEWIER
10
Ironers : MANGLERS
11
Wave, in a mer : ONDE
12
Mover and shaker : DOER
13
Terminates : ENDS
19
Ria : INLET
21
Egyptian sun disk : ATEN
25
Stir : FUSS
26
Athenian : ATTIC
27
What the leopard can't alter : SPOTS
28
Chip off the old block? : CLONE
29
Firmly embedded : DEEPROOTED
30
___ and took notice : SATUP
33
Violinist Kavafian : ANI
35
Flounders : DABS
37
Gadfly : PESTERER
39
Changed one's location at the theater : RESEATED
42
Originate : START
44
Cicatrix : SCAR
47
Diverts : AMUSES
49
Spanish weight unit : ARROBA
52
One of the Skerries : ISLE
53
Grub : CHOW
54
Timbre : TONE
55
Josh Billings's real surname : SHAW
56
Mister, in Munich : HERR
57
Information : WORD
58
Matched pairs : SETS
60
Part of the psyche : EGO

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

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