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Daniel Girardi
Daniel Girardi

New York Times, Saturday, April 27, 1991

50-Down : Hexad plus duad

Author:
Daniel Girardi
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.28, Missing: { J Q V W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 253 (avg 1.33)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
Daniel Girardi has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,145
Across
1
What dictators do : REPRESS
8
His discovery is still current : AMPERE
14
Former : ONETIME
15
A modern science : BIONICS
17
A male falcon : SAKERET
18
Net : ENSNARE
19
Lincoln's "Cap'n ___" : ERI
20
Done to ___ (just right) : ATURN
22
Styptic : ALUM
23
Indonesian cent : SEN
24
China town : DRESDEN
26
Compass dir. : SSE
27
Family of Victoria's Lord Beaconsfield : DISRAELIS
29
Spanish tide : MAREA
32
Areas cleared of trees : FELLINGS
36
Algeria's ___ Mountains : AHAGGAR
39
Blockheads : NINNIES
40
Describing certain income : UNEARNED
42
Japanese prime minister: 1960-64 : IKEDA
43
City NNW of San Francisco : SANTAROSA
46
N.Y.C. wagering system : OTB
49
Physics co-Nobelist: 1909 : MARCONI
50
___ Paul Kruger : OOM
53
Drudge : MOIL
55
Word Hamlet knew not : SEEMS
56
___-Magnon : CRO
57
Hawk's home : ATLANTA
59
Expectorant ingredient : PINETAR
62
Salute anew : REGREET
63
School : EDUCATE
64
Some subatomic particles : MESONS
65
Improve the premises : REMODEL
Down
1
Picardy bloomers : ROSES
2
Finnish lake, to Swedes : ENARE
3
Striped silk fabric : PEKIN
4
Hwy. : RTE
5
Healer at Valhalla : EIR
6
Pathologist's specimens : SMEARS
7
Gun dog : SETTER
8
Md.'s ___ Proving Ground : ABERDEEN
9
"Gigi" director : MINNELLI
10
Battery term. : POS
11
Castrogiovanni, today : ENNA
12
Mashhad coins : RIALS
13
Hosiery shades : ECRUS
16
Dotted; sown : SEME
21
Group to which SAC belongs : USAF
24
Tabular sketch : DIAGRAM
25
___ bonum : NILNISI
27
Cassatt's mentor : DEGAS
28
" ... will ___ ship" : SINKA
29
Half a Kenyan group's name : MAU
30
Actor in "Kung Fu" : AHN
31
Charlotte from Milwaukee : RAE
33
Never, in Neuss : NIE
34
Scottish pike : GED
35
Legislation of 1935 : SSA
37
Goldwyn's 1933 import from Russia : ANNASTEN
38
Religionists' sabbaticals : RETREATS
41
Small European fish : DACE
44
Certain room for tots : ROMPER
45
Football kick : ONSIDE
46
Caliph slain by a slave : OMAR
47
Clan emblem : TOTEM
48
Cask's widest part : BILGE
50
Hexad plus duad : OCTAD
51
Hold forth : ORATE
52
Black nightshade : MOREL
54
___ Porsena : LARS
58
Platonic preceder : NEO
60
Bible bk. : NUM
61
"The Name of the Rose" author : ECO

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 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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