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Kevin Boyle
Kevin Boyle

New York Times, Saturday, April 17, 1993

32-Down : Map cases

Author:
Kevin Boyle
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 29, Avg Word Len: 5.44, Missing: { J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 100, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Kevin Boyle has 32 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,866
Across
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Drop the last syllable : APOCOPATE
10
___ lazuli : LAPIS
15
Boccaccio's "The ___" : DECAMERON
16
Praying figure : ORANT
17
Lethargy : INANITION
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Dead surface : MATTE
19
Guitarist Farlow : TAL
20
Exam taker : TESTEE
22
SW Calif. city : BREA
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Baseball rubber : SLAB
25
Spike the punch anew : RELACE
27
Mil. weapons : ORD
28
Muttons : EMS
30
Alaska's first elected governor : EGAN
31
XXVIII x II : LVI
32
Outpouring : SPATE
35
Dwight's infamous foe : ADOLF
36
U.S. Shaker sect founder : LEE
37
Instrument of thought : ORGANON
39
Cleans up : NEATENS
41
Time lapse : LAG
42
Drum set : TRAPS
44
Youngest son : CADET
45
Air: Comb. form : AER
46
Woody's boy : ARLO
47
Cosset : PET
48
Phoenix-to-Flagstaff dir. : NNE
49
Precious stone : LIGURE
51
"___ not much the worse for wear": Cowper : AHAT
55
___ breakfast (hodgepodge), in Canada : DOGS
57
Endymion's lover : SELENE
59
Aesc : ASH
60
Telecommunicated messages : EMAIL
62
Tall water tank : STANDPIPE
64
Kind of rocket : RETRO
65
Wets; moistens : IRRIGATES
66
Old blades : SNEES
67
Shakespearean play about a British ruler : CYMBELINE
Down
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Entries : ADITS
2
Kind of code or colony : PENAL
3
Central Fla. city : OCALA
4
Jug : CAN
5
Forbear : OMIT
6
Actress Bernadette ___ : PETERS
7
Get up : ARISE
8
Emulated Galway : TOOTLED
9
Nine-sided figures : ENNEAGONS
10
Actor Herbert ___ : LOM
11
Swift steed : ARAB
12
Pounded a beat : PATROLLED
13
Mediate : INTERVENE
14
Most firm : STEADIEST
21
Shell; pod: Fr. : ECALE
24
VCR tape format : BETA
26
Write on the cover : ENFACE
29
Of the chin : MENTAL
32
Map cases : SOLANDERS
33
Roman citizen's first name : PRAENOMEN
34
Total : AGGREGATE
35
Agent allaying pain : ANALGESIC
38
Galloon : ORRIS
40
Cheerio! : TATA
43
Big business in Ark. : POULTRY
47
Writing tip : PENNIB
50
Provide more ammunition : REARM
52
Republic on Hispaniola : HAITI
53
Shaking like a leaf : ASPEN
54
William Carlos Williams poem : THESE
56
Quadruped's pop : SIRE
58
Sidle : EDGE
61
___ Alamos : LOS
63
"Destination Moon" producer : PAL

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 9 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.

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