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Walter Covell
Walter Covell

New York Times, Thursday, April 19, 1990

13-Down : Handles clumsily

Author:
Walter Covell
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J K Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
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. 14,772
Across
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Speleologists' interests : CAVES
6
Ski lifts : TBARS
11
Tam : CAP
14
Over : ABOVE
15
Confute : REBUT
16
Corolla petal : ALA
17
Low neckline on a dress : DECOLLETAGE
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Lion's mouth : MAW
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Star-shaped : STELLATE
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Bean and Welles : ORSONS
23
Pet's medic : VET
24
In ___ (localized) : SITU
25
Electric-current units : AMPERES
29
Raises again : RELIFTS
32
Grief : WOE
33
Touch or sight : SENSE
35
Actress Burstyn : ELLEN
36
Stowe's "The Pearl of ___ Island" : ORRS
38
Brazilian seaport : NATAL
40
Byway or seaway : LANE
41
Vanquished one : LOSER
43
Peels : PARES
45
Turn to the right : GEE
46
Hidden sharpshooters : SNIPERS
48
Powder packets : SACHETS
50
Renown : FAME
51
Never, in Nürnberg : NIE
52
Four quarts : GALLON
54
Fatherly : PATERNAL
59
Southern constellation : ARA
60
Hobo's way of life : VAGABONDAGE
62
Footprint of a game animal : PUG
63
Cremona violinmaker : AMATI
64
Sea monsters : CETES
65
Août's season : ETE
66
Oblivion : LETHE
67
Irregularly toothed : EROSE
Down
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Bounders : CADS
2
Assist a felon : ABET
3
Sotto or viva follower : VOCE
4
Undergo gradual change : EVOLVE
5
Star of "The Pink Panther" : SELLERS
6
Waste allowance : TRET
7
___ noire : BETE
8
Arab garment : ABA
9
Wrinkled : RUGOSE
10
Unproductive : STERILE
11
Dissimulation : CAMOUFLAGE
12
Poet Seeger : ALAN
13
Handles clumsily : PAWS
18
Kind of sail : LATEEN
22
Moonshiner's contrivance : STILL
25
Army deserters : AWOLS
26
City ESE of Sevilla : MORON
27
Banter : PERSIFLAGE
28
Gingery cookies : SNAPS
29
Brings up : REARS
30
Creed : TENET
31
Dirks of yore : SNEES
34
Dep. : STA
37
Flower part : SEPAL
39
Shed with a single, sloped roof : LEANTO
42
Post-blizzard task : REMOVAL
44
Biology or physics : SCIENCE
47
Change a title : RENAME
49
Sheep dog, for one : HERDER
52
Stare : GAPE
53
In ___ (bogged down) : ARUT
54
Route : PATH
55
Hershfield's "___ the Agent" : ABIE
56
Treaty org. : NATO
57
Man's septet : AGES
58
___-majesté : LESE
61
Hood's rod : GAT

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

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