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Daniel Girardi
Daniel Girardi

New York Times, Saturday, July 18, 1992

38-Down : Vowel omission

Author:
Daniel Girardi
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { B F J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 243 (avg 1.29)
Open Squares: 88, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has supersymmetry.
Daniel Girardi has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,593
Across
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An order of angels : THRONES
8
Telamon ruled here : SALAMIS
15
Practical person : REALIST
16
Fuss over, English style : LIONISE
17
One who transfers property : ALIENOR
18
"I Puritani" heroine and namesakes : ELVIRAS
19
"Turandot" role : PING
20
Factions : SIDES
22
Roman-fleuve : SAGA
23
Handel hero : ACI
24
Bundle of hides : KIP
25
Cradle rocker : MOM
26
Dancer-mime Parenti : NOEL
28
Baltic island, to a German : OESEL
30
Carry on : WAGE
31
Irruptions : INROADS
33
Calls it a day : RETIRES
35
Tinstone, e.g. : ORE
36
"___ Wednesday," Harold Lloyd film : MAD
37
Caligula and Herod : DESPOTS
41
Released conditionally : PAROLED
45
Greek military gp. in W.W. II : ELAS
46
Conspue : SPURN
48
Milne's "When We ___ Very Young" : WERE
49
Wrestler's objective : PIN
50
Part of a shandy : ALE
51
Channel between sandbanks : GAT
52
Horn; shaft: Sp. : ASTA
54
Sky Dragon : DRACO
56
English river : OUSE
57
Theater districts : RIALTOS
59
"Adagia" author : ERASMUS
61
Shared annuity : TONTINE
62
Menu entry : DESSERT
63
Polisher of clocks' interiors : SNAILER
64
Boxes : ENCASES
Down
1
Sicilian seaport : TRAPANI
2
Abode of the Muses : HELICON
3
Monaco monarch : RAINIER
4
Founder of Kievan Russia : OLEG
5
"Solar Barque" author : NIN
6
Those, in Taxco : ESOS
7
Marks for David Ozio : STRIKES
8
Woody Allen film : SLEEPER
9
Bothers : AILS
10
___ Bensey, in "Tobacco Road" : LOV
11
Flavoring for a Cannes cordial : ANIS
12
City in SE Fla. : MIRAMAR
13
Scholarly introduction to research : ISAGOGE
14
Opening words? : SESAMES
21
"The Big ___," 1990 film : DIS
27
Cloverleaf lanes : LOOPS
28
"Night Music" playwright : ODETS
29
Swiss lake : LEMAN
30
Incomplete line, to a printer : WIDOW
32
Orinoco tributary : ARO
34
Pitch : TAR
37
Takes off : DEPARTS
38
Vowel omission : ELISION
39
Santo Domingo's first president : SANTANA
40
Less dense : SPARSER
41
Herald : PRECEDE
42
Greengrocers' wares : LEGUMES
43
Deler's choice : ERASURE
44
Execrates : DETESTS
47
Gums : ULA
53
Choir voices : ALTI
54
Cooked sufficiently : DONE
55
Son of Jerahmeel: I Chron. 2:25 : OREN
56
Mountain in Tasmania : OSSA
58
E. Indian herb : TIL
60
Inst. at Savannah : ASC

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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