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Ronald Rabinowitz
Ronald Rabinowitz

New York Times, Tuesday, May 17, 1983

9-Down : They "preserve" us

Author:
Ronald Rabinowitz
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { H J K Q W Y Z }, Scrabble score: 242 (avg 1.29)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Ronald Rabinowitz has 6 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,243
Across
1
Change for a fiver : ONES
5
Disables : LAMES
10
Not taped : LIVE
14
Colombian dollar : PESO
15
Redolence : AROMA
16
Monad : UNIT
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Soviet sea : ARAL
18
Ruth's mother-in-law : NAOMI
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An Amerind : CREE
20
Jurist for whom an Eastern university was named : LOUISDBRANDEIS
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Tappet : CAM
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Rouse : STIR
25
Entreaty : PETITION
30
Place for a filibuster : SENATE
34
Landed : ALIT
35
Greek shrine : NAOS
37
Communication method : TELEX
38
Match : PIT
39
Irish and English : SETTERS
41
Pacific porgy : TAI
42
Bromide's cousin : ADAGE
44
Withered : SERE
45
Ago : PAST
46
Delaware Indian : LENAPE
48
Board-of-education topic : SALARIES
50
Turner or Louise : TINA
52
Vane reading : ENE
53
Founder of a Western university : LELANDSTANFORD
60
Beautiful woman : PERI
61
Ferber and Millay : EDNAS
62
Bacchanalian cry : EVOE
63
Tennis term : ADIN
64
Winged : ALATE
65
Rank : RATE
66
Pealed : RANG
67
Painter of ballerinas : DEGAS
68
Smack : SLAP
Down
1
Relative of quartz : OPAL
2
Fiddler of yore : NERO
3
Jacob's twin : ESAU
4
Beg : SOLICIT
5
Explosive device : LANDMINE
6
Sinai dweller : ARAB
7
Tie up a tender : MOOR
8
Austen's Miss Woodhouse et al. : EMMAS
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They "preserve" us : SAINTS
10
Swiss city famed for a leonine sculpture : LUCERNE
11
Cross inscription : INRI
12
Competes : VIES
13
Printemps follower : ETE
21
Had a session : SAT
22
Assemblies of a sort : DIETS
25
Kind of bull : PAPAL
26
Ignore : ELIDE
27
Olympian's predecessor : TITAN
28
Fare for Man o' War : OATS
29
Memos : NOTES
31
___ Krai, U.S.S.R. territory : ALTAI
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Hector : TEASE
33
Leaves : EXITS
36
Shipment to St. Elsewhere : SERA
39
Brownish gray : SEPIA
40
Lets go : RELEASES
43
Kind of gun : GATLING
45
Favors : PREFERS
47
A baseball team : ENNEAD
49
Gloucester's cape : ANN
51
Confound : ADDLE
53
Mother of Helen of Troy : LEDA
54
Hibernia : ERIN
55
Hindrance : SNAG
56
Informal farewell : TATA
57
Elliptical : OVAL
58
Roster : ROTA
59
Profound : DEEP
60
Golf term : PAR

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2 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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