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Ernie Furtado
Ernie Furtado

New York Times, Saturday, May 23, 1992

9-Down : Loss of feeling

Author:
Ernie Furtado
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 47, Avg Word Len: 5.24, Missing: { J K Q X }, Scrabble score: 242 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 19, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Ernie Furtado has 18 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 12 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,537
Across
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Alabama's Crimson ___ : TIDE
5
Did certain seeding : RATED
10
Cosmetic : TONER
11
Combat vessel : FRIGATE
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Barnaby Jones of TV : EBSEN
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Quashes : REPRESSES
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Former Argentine President : MITRE
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Botanist Gray : ASA
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Journal end : ESE
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Balzac's "Le ___ Goriot" : PERE
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St.-Tropez sight : MER
22
Merchant guild : HANSA
24
Big Ten inst. : OSU
25
Place to purchase pickles : DELI
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Detroit dud : EDSEL
27
___ en scène : MISE
30
Concealed explosive : LANDMINE
32
Perfumy : SCENTED
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Nullified : NEGATED
36
Greatest of Arthur's knights : LANCELOT
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Start of a Caesar trio : VENI
39
Pilasters : ANTAE
40
Elm, in Évian : ORME
42
___ Buddhism : ZEN
45
Article of food : VIAND
46
Vintage auto : REO
47
___-shanter : TAMO
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Darkroom prod. : ENL
49
L.A.-to-Las Vegas dir. : NNW
50
Apportions : METES
51
Place in statu quo : REINSTATE
55
Actress MacMahon : ALINE
56
More wretched : SORRIER
57
Trudges : PLODS
58
Kafka novel, with "The" : TRIAL
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Some crossword defs. : SYNS
Down
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Certain mugs : TOBIES
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Tuba player, e.g. : INSTRUMENTALIST
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Plow man : DEERE
4
Loser to Gans : ERNE
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Riverbank dweller : RIPARIAN
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Sci. of farming : AGR
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Mimeograph inventor : TAE
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French connections : ETS
9
Loss of feeling : DESENSITIZATION
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Pace : TEMPO
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In which a strike may occur : FRAME
12
Vend anew : RESELL
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Dead Sea ascetic : ESSENE
16
Like Oscar-winning names : SEALED
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Equivocate : HEDGE
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Huckster : ADMAN
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Actress-singer Sandra ___ : DEEL
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Peruvian native : INCAN
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Bucephalus, e.g. : STEED
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Field of granular snow : NEVE
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Ship of old : SLAVER
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Tooth : CANINE
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Dead as a ___ : DOORNAIL
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Thirty, en français : TRENTE
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Manicurist in the suburbs? : MOWER
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Makes changes in texts : EMENDS
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Anatomical numbers? : NOSES
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Portrayer of a TV Theo : TELLY
50
Cartographers' creations : MAPS
52
And not : NOR
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___ Lanka : SRI
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Start of a refrain : TRA

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1 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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