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Walter Covell
Walter Covell

New York Times, Tuesday, April 10, 1990

21-Down : Jumped

Author:
Walter Covell
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.64, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 1, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Walter Covell has 33 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,763
Across
1
Plan expenditures : BUDGET
7
Last letter found in London : ZED
10
Snug as a bug in ___ : ARUG
14
Disinclined : AVERSE
15
Chopper : AXE
16
Ship on which Columbus returned: 1492 : NINA
17
Tell : RELATE
18
Wedding-news word : NEE
19
Sarcastic : ACID
20
Pertaining to a spinster : MAIDENLY
22
Unkempt : RAGTAG
24
Gaelic : ERSE
25
Beast : BRUTE
26
Showy ornament : GAUD
29
Bark sharply : YAP
31
Sideboard display : TEASET
32
Hooter : OWL
33
Observance of correctness : PURISM
35
Wildebeests : GNUS
37
Applied a match anew : RELIT
38
Goad : SPUR
42
Bicycle built for two : TANDEM
44
Pub pint's contents : ALE
45
Certain parrots : MACAWS
48
Polka follower : DOT
50
Brought up : BRED
51
Exercised : IRATE
52
Indian garb : SARI
54
Fool : DELUDE
56
Angels : SERAPHIM
60
Capricorn symbol : GOAT
61
Possible habitat of 35 Across : ZOO
63
Imagine : IDEATE
64
Nobelist Wiesel : ELIE
65
Old Tokyo : EDO
66
Fuss : FIDGET
67
Moscow news group : TASS
68
Understanding : KEN
69
Bone hollows : FOSSAE
Down
1
Foam during fermentation : BARM
2
Eye part : UVEA
3
Where to find a hero : DELI
4
Rated : GRADED
5
Organic compound : ESTER
6
Minute : TEENSY
7
Clown : ZANY
8
English stream : EXE
9
Stag or doe : DEER
10
Popular word game : ANAGRAMS
11
Opening of the mouth : RICTUS
12
An Eastern Church member : UNIATE
13
Thingamabob : GADGET
21
Jumped : LEAPED
23
Beame and Burrows : ABES
26
A warring nation of Revelations : GOG
27
Grass bristle : AWN
28
Eskimo knife : ULU
30
Whined : PULED
31
Small bird : TIT
34
Full of chinks : RIMOSE
36
Laws : STATUTES
37
Hosp. group : RNS
39
Norm : PAR
40
Rubber tree : ULE
41
Roulette color : RED
43
Overwhelmed : AWED
45
Diminutive : MIDGET
46
Interstice : AREOLA
47
French seaport : CALAIS
49
Import duty : TARIFF
50
Human beings, e.g. : BIPEDS
53
Fred Allen's medium : RADIO
55
Bible bk. : EZEK
56
Anon : SOON
57
Crones : HAGS
58
Graceful tree : ITEA
59
Boundary line : METE
62
Poem form : ODE

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