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Bryant White
Bryant White

New York Times, Thursday, June 25, 1992

6-Down : Spanish device for capital punishment

Author:
Bryant White
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 45, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J Q W }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Bryant White has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 29 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,570
Across
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Marten's cousin : SABLE
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Festival : GALA
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Scoundrel: Slang : SCAB
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Epic account : ILIAD
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Suntan-lotion ingredient : ALOE
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Vague : HAZY
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Draft horses : PERCHERONS
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In ___ (bogged down) : ARUT
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Anguineous creature : EEL
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Young fellow : SPRIG
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Prefix with meditated : PRE
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Sharpens razors : HONES
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Homophone for seize : CEES
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Harvest deity : OPS
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Kitty : POT
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Post for a harbor house : STILT
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Supply : PROVIDE
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Free from discord : TUNABLE
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Cribbage stock : TALON
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Millet : GRAIN
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Scorified ore : SMELTED
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Of the ocean : PELAGIC
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Mosconi shot : MASSE
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Fury : IRE
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German personal pronoun : SIE
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Cáfe handout : MENU
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Winter apparel : PARKA
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Mongolian river : IRO
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Counts calories : DIETS
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Mental confusion : FOG
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Money in Mashhad : RIAL
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Food-poisoning bacteria : SALMONELLA
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Epsilon's trailer : ZETA
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Wight, e.g. : ISLE
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Sultan's decree : IRADE
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Deadly pale : ASHY
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Capital of Calvados : CAEN
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TV image component : PIXEL
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Cleveland Browns QB: 1974-83 : SIPE
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Opposite of aweather : ALEE
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Rotate a log : BIRL
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Sealing-wax substance : LAC
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Anglo-Saxon letters : EDHS
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Spanish device for capital punishment : GARROTE
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Bitter purgative : ALOIN
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Most extensive : LONGEST
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Roman bronze : AES
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Shinto temple : SHA
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Satchels : CARPETBAGS
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Blue pigment : AZURE
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Climbing species of pepper : BYTES
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High priest's garment : EPHOD
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V's predecessors : STU
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Barton or Maass : CLARA
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Makes a choice : OPTS
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Hyde Park carriage : PRAM
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Vow of extreme importance : SOLEMNOATH
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They have four gills each : PINTS
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Londoner's hearth : INGLE
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___-vent (meaty patty) : VOLAU
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Year in the reign of Claudius I : LIII
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Suffix with infer : ENCE
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Clairvoyant's abbr. : ESP
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___ doornail : DEADASA
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Former foot soldiers : PIKEMEN
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A sister of Melpomene : ERATO
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Persian title of honor : MIRZA
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Cherokees' kin : ERIES
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Lunar valley : RILLE
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Use scissors : SNIP
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Linen source : FLAX
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Ye ___ Tea Shoppe : OLDE
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Speaker of Manx : GAEL
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Wager : LAY
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Thus, to Ovid : SIC
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Silkworm : ERI

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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