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Melvin Kenworthy
Melvin Kenworthy

New York Times, Wednesday, June 27, 1990

9-Down : Retailer's autumnal offer

Author:
Melvin Kenworthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { J K Q }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 14, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Melvin Kenworthy has 23 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,841
Across
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Area : ZONE
5
" ... the ___ the ocean" : GEMOF
10
Police team : SWAT
14
Fulda feeder : EDER
15
Tropical vine : LIANA
16
Take on : HIRE
17
"___ Polka" : BEERBARREL
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___ even keel : ONAN
20
Actor Taylor : ROD
21
Served perfectly : ACED
22
Razes : LEVELS
24
Equipped with a handle : ANSATE
26
Foot part : INSTEP
28
Hurl : TOSS
30
Tympanum : EARDRUM
33
Nobleman : BARON
36
What Buster Douglas won: Feb. 1990 : TITLE
38
Spire ornament : EPI
39
Grad : ALUM
40
One-tenth : TITHE
41
Glacial ridges : OSAR
42
___ de plume : NOM
43
"___ Triste": Sibelius : VALSE
44
Nursery character in a well : PUSSY
45
Kind of machine : GUMBALL
47
Electrical units : RELS
49
Ushers' milieus : AISLES
51
Correct a recording : RETAPE
55
Compunction : REGRET
57
Certain moldings : TORI
59
"___ vobiscum!" : PAX
60
Dry : ARID
61
Va. metropolis : ALEXANDRIA
64
Kind of bus or skirt : MINI
65
Animate : LIVEN
66
G.W. was one : CINC
67
Little Sheba's creator : INGE
68
Happening : EVENT
69
"___ a Song Go ... " : ILET
Down
1
Equus member : ZEBRA
2
"___ a Grecian Urn": Keats : ODEON
3
Sleep, food, etc. : NEEDS
4
Goof : ERR
5
Frozen desserts : GLACES
6
Ireland, to a Gael : EIRE
7
___ Gras : MARDI
8
United : ONE
9
Retailer's autumnal offer : FALLSALE
10
___ off (left) : SHOVED
11
Vintner's purchase : WINEPRESS
12
Russian inland sea : ARAL
13
Wallet items : TENS
18
Musical wand : BATON
23
Raison d'___ : ETRE
25
Molecule part : ATOM
27
Infernal : NETHER
29
"___ Nacht," German carol : STILLE
31
Javanese tree : UPAS
32
Full of mud : MIRY
33
July 4 noise : BANG
34
Baseball's Felipe : ALOU
35
Ransacker's action : RUMMAGING
37
"___ Magic," Cahn-Styne song : ITS
40
Unlikely story : TALLTALE
41
Evict : OUST
43
Urn's cousin : VASE
44
___-air painting : PLEIN
46
A three on a par-four hole : BIRDIE
48
Wandering : ERRANT
50
Allen or Martin : STEVE
52
When Arbor Day comes : APRIL
53
He wrote "Common Sense" : PAINE
54
Precise : EXACT
55
Branches of nerves : RAMI
56
Actress Gray : ERIN
58
Draft animals : OXEN
62
Learned role on "The Waltons" : LIV
63
Start of the seventh century : DCI

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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