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Joel D. Lafargue
Joel D. Lafargue

New York Times, Friday, July 20, 1990

7-Down : Kipling's "Rickki-tikki-___"

Author:
Joel D. Lafargue
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { Q W }, Scrabble score: 303 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Joel D. Lafargue has 51 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,864
Across
1
Moves quickly : ZIPS
5
Spydom's Hari : MATA
9
Appetizer : PATE
13
Toward shelter : ALEE
14
Take the stump : ORATE
16
Red river : URAL
17
Appeal : PLEA
18
Author Shute : NEVIL
19
Chuck of the N.F.L. : NOLL
20
Useful humor? : PRACTICALJOKE
23
St. Helens' product : ASH
25
Fr. holy woman : STE
26
Unanimously : TOAMAN
27
Renata of opera fame : SCOTTO
29
Somewhat sour : ACERB
31
Humorist on the phone? : CALLINGCARD
33
Moslem cap : TAJ
36
Anchovy sauce : ALEC
37
Eastern U.S. ocean : ATL
38
Columnist Bombeck : ERMA
39
___ de Calais : PAS
40
Welfare for an unemployed funnyman? : COMICRELIEF
44
Where Joan of Arc burned : ROUEN
45
Charitable acronym : UNICEF
46
Receive gladly : ACCEPT
49
Queried, dialect style : AST
50
Long-tailed simian : KRA
51
Humorist's investment? : LAUGHINGSTOCK
55
Voir ___ (juror exam) : DIRE
56
Oil used in perfumery : NEROL
57
Aware of : ONTO
60
Innisfail : ERIN
61
Light too bright for sight : GLARE
62
"Weed 'em and ___" (gardener's motto?) : REAP
63
Be a fan : ROOT
64
Lixivia : LYES
65
Tonsor's cry : NEXT
Down
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Use a ray gun : ZAP
2
Ind. neighbor : ILL
3
Viewpoints? : PEEPHOLES
4
Burn : SEAR
5
New Brunswick city : MONCTON
6
High crest : ARETE
7
Kipling's "Rickki-tikki-___" : TAVI
8
Axiom ender : ATIC
9
Annie's turbaned friend : PUNJAB
10
"___ of One's Own": Woolf : AROOM
11
___ blue streak (chatter) : TALKA
12
Actress Barkin : ELLEN
15
Cheery beetle? : ELATER
21
Italian wine district : ASTI
22
Conrad's "___ Jim" : LORD
23
B.M.I.'s rival : ASCAP
24
How some wags get started? : SCALA
28
Nursery schooler's need, for short : TLC
29
" ... ___ the living Present!": Longfellow : ACTIN
30
Math. student's device : CALC
32
Plucky : GAME
33
Magician's joint? : TRICKKNEE
34
Eastern bigwig : AMEER
35
Part of Tel Aviv : JAFFA
38
Actor Wallach : ELI
40
Nineteenth Hebrew letter : COPH
41
Picnic or junket : OUTING
42
Wrangles wrongfully : RUSTLES
43
Within: Comb. form : ENTO
44
College official : REGENT
46
___ buckthorn : ALDER
47
City on the Ohio : CAIRO
48
Knickknack : CURIO
49
Stick out like ___ thumb : ASORE
52
Dudley Do-Right's girl : NELL
53
"Duncan ___," Burns poem : GRAY
54
Iowa product : CORN
58
A 4/15 worry : TAX
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Choose : OPT

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 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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