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Martin Ashwood-Smith
Martin Ashwood-Smith

New York Times, Wednesday, June 5, 1991

9-Down : Of a secret order

Author:
Martin Ashwood-Smith
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { P Q W X }, Scrabble score: 301 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Martin Ashwood-Smith has 7 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 80 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,184
Across
1
Calais clerics : ABBES
6
TV studio device : BOOM
10
Quizzes : ASKS
14
Lois's colleague : CLARK
15
Mexican water : AGUA
16
Kind of point : MOOT
17
Start of a quotation : MARRIAGEIS
19
Time-half link : ANDA
20
Warm time in Hull : ETE
21
"Come Back, Little Sheba" playwright : INGE
22
Procure : OBTAIN
24
Caron film: 1961 : FANNY
26
"___ Clear Day" : ONA
27
Tic-toe link : TAC
28
With 47 Across, speaker of quotation : GEORGE
30
Quotation: Part II : AMISTAKE
32
" ... but ___ temper leaps ... ": Shak. : AHOT
33
"___ Adventures ... " : ALICES
34
Comic's query : GETIT
36
Pose : SIT
37
Fix a computer : DEBUG
41
Clears a tape : ERASES
43
British bye-bye : TATA
44
Quotation: Part III : EVERYMAN
47
See 28 Across : JESSEL
49
Actor Pendleton : NAT
50
Scotland's longest river : TAY
51
Reception : LEVEE
52
Sneezer's sounds : ACHOOS
54
"J'accuse" author : ZOLA
55
Sills, for short : BEV
58
Palindromic title : MAAM
59
End of quotation : SHOULDMAKE
62
Sicilian volcano : ETNA
63
Amor, to Plato : EROS
64
Sniggler : EELER
65
Lascivious look : LEER
66
Gainsay : DENY
67
Spanish sauce : SALSA
Down
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Apogee : ACME
2
Cote call : BLAT
3
Simon's "___ in the Park" : BAREFOOT
4
Slip : ERR
5
On the slopes : SKIING
6
With room to spare : BAGGY
7
Pointed arch : OGEE
8
Avignon assent : OUI
9
Of a secret order : MASONIC
10
First-year Latin verb : AMAT
11
"Hammerklavier," e.g. : SONATA
12
Bear or island : KODIAK
13
Attitude : STANCE
18
Last Stuart monarch : ANNE
23
Predicated : BASED
25
More ostentatious : ARTIER
26
Neglects : OMITS
28
Joke : GAG
29
Before, in Bayreuth : EHE
30
Strange : ALIEN
31
Fly in the tropics : TSETSE
33
Test : ASSAY
35
"___ Remember" : TRYTO
38
Diamond attraction : BASEBALL
39
Shoshonean : UTE
40
Four qts. : GAL
42
Garnered : AMASSED
44
Bicuspid coating : ENAMEL
45
Leave the premises : VACATE
46
Flammable gas : ETHANE
47
Crystallize : JELL
48
Avoids by deceit : EVADES
51
Wretched; crummy : LOUSY
53
Khayyám : OMAR
54
Animal: Comb. form : ZOON
56
Supplements, with "out" : EKES
57
Actress Miles : VERA
60
Charlemagne's dom. : HRE
61
___ culpa : MEA

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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