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Michael A. Rampino
Michael A. Rampino

New York Times, Friday, May 11, 1990

25-Down : Cuban group dance

Author:
Michael A. Rampino
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 30, Avg Word Len: 5.57, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 94, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Michael A. Rampino has 33 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,794
Across
1
The Louvre, etc. : MUSEUMS
8
More lucid : CLEARER
15
What canoe is to ocean : ANAGRAM
16
Necklace of diamonds : RIVIERE
17
Noli me ___ (jewelweed) : TANGERE
18
Rises : EMERGES
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Bore : TIRE
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Not yet : LATER
22
"___ Loser," Beatles song : IMA
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Largest dam in Germany : EDER
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Digress : STRAY
25
Wind : COIL
26
Pol. party : DEM
27
Mug : STEIN
28
Firenze's ___ Vecchio : PONTE
29
"The ___ Dilemma," play by G.B.S. : DOCTORS
31
Tightens, with "up" : TENSES
32
Knee tendon : HAMSTRING
34
Tuberous flower : DAHLIA
37
Thin, flat breakfast item : OATCAKE
40
"___ Melancholy": Keats : ODEON
41
Support for a paneled door : STILE
42
Devon river : EXE
44
Existed : WERE
45
Starr of the Wild West : BELLE
46
Coal stratum : SEAM
47
Menu words : ALA
48
Person of sound mind? : TUNER
49
Model Macpherson : ELLE
50
Workers in goldleaf : GILDERS
52
Run : OPERATE
55
Approve : ENDORSE
56
Squire, as for Galahad : ARMIGER
57
Takes umbrage : RESENTS
58
Hat tippers : DOFFERS
Down
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Lusterless : MATTED
2
Like Horatius Cocles at the bridge : UNAIDED
3
Italian resort town : SANREMO
4
Type of moth : EGGER
5
Suffix with press : URE
6
Impair : MAR
7
Ore refiners : SMELTERS
8
El Greco, by birth : CRETAN
9
British gob : LIMEY
10
"Second thoughts are ___ wiser": Euripides : EVER
11
___ Supply, rock group : AIR
12
Large land tracts : REGIONS
13
St. Simeon Stylites was one : EREMITE
14
Used-car transactions : RESALES
21
Teacher of Alexander the Great : ARISTOTLE
24
Insect's spiracle : STOMA
25
Cuban group dance : CONGA
27
Blot on one's escutcheon : STAIN
28
The "D." in L.S.D. : PENCE
30
Uncle Tom's wife : CHLOE
31
Legend : TITLE
33
Send to prison hastily : RAILROAD
34
Queen Mary is one : DOWAGER
35
Virginia Woolf's first name : ADELINE
36
Announcers : HERALDS
38
Port duty : KEELAGE
39
Glorifier : EXALTER
41
Taste and smell : SENSES
43
Some descendants of Mohammed : EMEERS
45
Explode : BURST
46
Cross stroke on a letter : SERIF
48
Set of three : TERN
51
Female hare : DOE
53
For : PRO
54
An amt. of energy expressed in volts : EMF

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

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