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Nancy W. Atkinson
Nancy W. Atkinson

New York Times, Tuesday, April 30, 1991

31-Down : Compress cloth

Author:
Nancy W. Atkinson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F J Q X }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Nancy W. Atkinson has 16 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,148
Across
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Grad.-school degree : MBA
4
Amtrak abbrs. : ARRS
8
Marked an exam : GRADED
14
Provident finisher : IAL
15
Slip into : WEAR
16
___ uno : NUMERO
17
Most off the wall : CRAZIEST
19
Hardy or Twist : OLIVER
20
He leads a host on the links : ARNOLDPALMER
22
Oratorio offerings : SOLI
23
Ref. book : OED
24
Fitting : APT
27
Laird's "Wow!" : OCH
29
Lanchester and Maxwell : ELSAS
32
Deep or high preceder : KNEE
33
The past tense : PRETERIT
36
Sub detector : SONAR
37
An atlas insert : TIPIN
38
"Polly, ___ the kettle on" : PUT
40
Watered silk : MOIRE
41
Like Goofy : INANE
42
Supers' openers : PASSKEYS
44
Grimm character : OGRE
45
Believed without question : ATEUP
47
Explorer Johnson : OSA
48
Beatty of "Network" : NED
49
"___ live and breathe!" : ASI
50
Saturn attachment : ALIA
53
Leslie Howard in "G.W.T.W." : ASHLEYWILKES
58
Ad hoc : HERETO
61
Lute's cousin : MANDOLIN
62
Shylock was one : USURER
63
TV's talking horse : MRED
64
"___ tu," Verdi aria : ERI
65
Soil : BEMIRE
66
Gump or Gibb : ANDY
67
Right on! : YEP
Down
1
Layered mineral : MICA
2
TV's Roseanne : BARR
3
First U.S. spaceman : ALANSHEPARD
4
"Where there's ___ ... " : AWILL
5
More like Twiggy : REEDIER
6
Carpenter's file : RASP
7
Sp. lass : SRTA
8
Dwarflike beings : GNOMES
9
Held sway : RULED
10
A prince of Qatar : AMIR
11
Part of R & D : DEV
12
Homophone for heir : ERE
13
Buzzing insect : DOR
18
Bronx attraction : ZOO
21
Mauna ___ : LOA
24
"Wild West Show" star : ANNIEOAKLEY
25
Family of an Arctic explorer : PEARYS
26
Wright or Brewer : TERESA
27
Druthers : OPTION
28
Quail : CRINGE
30
Kind of service : LIP
31
Compress cloth : STUPE
32
Oddball : KOOK
34
Part of a fork : TINE
35
Cork-to-Kilkenny dir. : ENE
36
Orders for p.j.'s : SMS
39
Cross design : TAU
43
Brought forth : SPAWNED
45
Off the ocean : ASHORE
46
Sesame : TIL
49
Daisylike flower : ASTER
51
Watergate figure : LIDDY
52
U.N. arm : ILO
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Air: Comb. form : AERI
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Educator Willard : EMMA
55
What a salt spins : YARN
56
Land of Shannon : EIRE
57
Impudent one : SNIP
58
Boston, with "the" : HUB
59
Vietnam follower : ESE
60
Piña colada base : RUM

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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