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Christy Ridley
Christy Ridley

New York Times, Saturday, March 31, 1990

50-Down : Chum

Author:
Christy Ridley
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J X }, Scrabble score: 312 (avg 1.63)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Christy Ridley has 54 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,753
Across
1
Food fish : BASS
5
Exposed : BARED
10
Trade : SWAP
14
Bird of Australia : EMEU
15
Eiffel Tower level : ETAGE
16
Famous soccer player : PELE
17
City-hall timekeepers : TOWNCLOCKS
19
Weather forecast : RAIN
20
Concurrences : SYNDROMES
21
0500 and 1700 : FIVES
22
Hawaiian honeycreeper : IIWI
23
Donegal Bay feeder : ERNE
24
What inspired Watt : STEAM
27
Metric-system unit : CENTIGRAM
32
C. Marshall's "A Man ___ Peter" : CALLED
34
Chickadee's home : NEST
35
Youth org. : BSA
36
Central Iowa city : AMES
37
District's administrative officer : REEVE
39
Fine spray : MIST
40
Clerical title: Abbr. : REV
41
Writer Earl ___ Biggers : DERR
42
Basis for some watches : QUARTZ
44
Top watch's quality : PRECISION
47
"___ to bed": Pepys : ANDSO
48
Certain pigeons : NUNS
49
Teen-ager's problem : ACNE
51
His last album was "I Got a Name" : CROCE
53
Old time indicator : HOURGLASS
58
Sickle; scythe : HOOK
59
Six fifty : TENTOSEVEN
60
"Money ___ object" : ISNO
61
"Our times ___ his hand": Browning : AREIN
62
Short-billed rail : SORA
63
A Huxtable : THEO
64
Mount ___ (Adirondacks' top peak) : MARCY
65
Lucre : SWAG
Down
1
Wagers : BETS
2
China-coast island : AMOY
3
Stitched : SEWN
4
Old daytime markers : SUNDIALS
5
Under : BELOW
6
Kind of energy : ATOMIC
7
Tear : RACE
8
Family of "Circe" composer : EGKS
9
___ Plaines, Chicago suburb : DES
10
"___ ahead; fall back" : SPRING
11
Old World finch : WEAVERBIRD
12
"It's a Sin to Tell ___" : ALIE
13
Writes : PENS
18
It doesn't pay : CRIME
21
Component of glass : FRIT
23
And the following: Abbr. : ETSEQ
24
Line of cliffs : SCARP
25
Less feral : TAMER
26
11:01 : ELEVENOONE
28
Period of time in Spain : ENERO
29
Ida. neighbor : NEV
30
Vice prins., e.g. : ASSTS
31
Unleavened bread : MATZO
33
Dolly Varden is one : DRESS
38
Lincoln's "Cap'n ___" : ERI
39
Like a lioness : MANELESS
41
Eat in style : DINE
43
Rhinoceros beetles : UANGS
45
Beaked timekeeper : CUCKOO
46
Marine, in Brighton : NAUTIC
50
Chum : CRONY
51
Memo : CHIT
52
___ ha-Shanah : ROSH
53
Wife and sister of Zeus : HERA
54
Corker : ONER
55
Assert : AVOW
56
Evening, in Roma : SERA
57
Angler's headache : SNAG
59
Beret's cousin : TAM

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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