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Vaughn Keith
Vaughn Keith

New York Times, Saturday, May 2, 1981

35-Down : Border stream

Author:
Vaughn Keith
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 30, Avg Word Len: 5.74, Missing: { K Q V W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 89, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 4 (1 triple stack), Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12
Vaughn Keith has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,498
Across
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Former president of Panama : ARIAS
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Place below the Acropolis : AGORA
11
Letter addenda : PSS
14
Budlike outgrowth : GEMMA
15
Adjective for some evening gowns : DECOLLETE
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Shock : APPAL
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Peopled : INHABITED
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Hawaii, e.g. : STATE
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Light meals, in London : TEAS
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Pungent odor : TANG
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Celtic : IRISH
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Q-U connection : RST
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Ultimatum word : ELSE
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Landon : ALF
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Feminist's concern, for short : ERA
29
Golf term : PAR
31
Italian poet: 1798-1837 : GIACOMOLEOPARDI
38
Pennsylvania, in New York : RAILROADSTATION
39
Individual renderings of roles, scores, etc. : INTERPRETATIONS
40
Cigar residue : ASH
41
Acquire : GET
42
Gangster's rod : GAT
43
Slightly open : AJAR
46
A Gershwin : IRA
48
Works ___ (museum pieces) : OFART
51
Dishevel : MUSS
52
Praise : LAUD
54
" ... all seem pendulous ___": Poe : INAIR
56
Resistant to melting, as certain metals : INFUSIBLE
58
Kind of salami : GENOA
59
Unlike a juggernaut : STOPPABLE
60
"I ___ Anyone 'Til You," 1938 song : HADNT
61
Patriotic org. : SAR
62
Steel, in Sedan : ACIER
63
Lock : TRESS
Down
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Moslem titles of respect : AGAS
2
Mean : REPTILIAN
3
French tense : IMPARFAIT
4
Famous violinmaker : AMATI
5
Auctions : SALES
6
Stulm : ADIT
7
French W.W. II hero : GENERALDEGAULLE
8
Turkish weights : OCHAS
9
Sauerbraten accompaniment : ROASTPOTATO
10
Priestly vestment : ALB
11
Corolla part : PETAL
12
British guns : STENS
13
Coarse grass : SEDGE
16
Those well read : LITERATI
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Alexis, son of Nicholas II, was one : HEMOPHILIAC
26
Field: Prefix : AGRI
28
Bellow : ROAR
30
Pit-___ : APAT
32
Explains : CLEARSUP
33
"The Pearl of ___ Island," Stowe novel : ORRS
34
Villa d'___ at Tivoli : ESTE
35
Border stream : RIOGRANDE
36
Gifts : DONATIONS
37
N.Y.U. or L.I.U. : INST
43
Off the mark : AMISS
44
Political faction : JUNTA
45
In regard to : ASFOR
47
Teacher, of sorts : RABBI
49
Altercation : FIGHT
50
Lend ___ (heed) : ANEAR
53
Caribou or pudu : DEER
55
Phooey! : RATS
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Watering place : SPA

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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