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Jack L. Steinhardt
Jack L. Steinhardt

New York Times, Saturday, July 25, 1992

56-Down : A wd. often ending in "ing"

Author:
Jack L. Steinhardt
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.54, Missing: { F J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.34)
Open Squares: 98, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has both left-right and up-down symmetry.
Jack L. Steinhardt has 39 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,600
Across
1
Slopes backward : RECEDES
8
Inheritor's headache : PROBATE
15
Paregoric : ANODYNE
16
Early Delawareans : LENAPES
17
Colporteurs, e.g. : VENDERS
18
Transport : ENCHANT
19
German river : EMS
20
Bright or promising : ROSEATE
22
Robotic drama : RUR
23
Luminous intensity units : NITS
25
Tilting arena : LISTS
26
Longfellow's bell town : ATRI
27
Perfumer's alcohol : NEROL
29
Route number : ONE
30
Commercial entrepreneurs : ADMEN
31
Vedic spirit : ASURA
32
Beatty or Buntline : NED
33
Basketball defense : PRESS
34
French vineyard : CRU
35
Bull or fountain chaser : PEN
36
Afterward : LATER
38
Thus, to Terence : SIC
41
They don't play with the pros : ANTIS
44
Birthplace of St. Theresa : AVILA
45
Cry of disgust : PAH
46
City above Helsinki : LAHTI
47
Iberian waterways : RIOS
48
Belvedere or maduro : CIGAR
50
Word with office or shark : LOAN
51
Golfer Baker-Finch : IAN
52
Atmospheric emissions : AURORAS
54
Director Grosbard : ULU
55
Paint with dots : STIPPLE
57
Speech impairment : APHASIA
59
Roman epithet for Juno : SOSPITA
60
Patois : DIALECT
61
Ingenuous : ARTLESS
62
As a group : ENMASSE
Down
1
Site of Dante's tomb : RAVENNA
2
" ... naked to mine ___": Shak. : ENEMIES
3
Certain interpreter of laws : CONSTRUCTIONIST
4
Actor Byrnes : EDD
5
British poet: 1700-58 : DYER
6
Matriculate : ENROL
7
Legislative meeting : SESSION
8
Like some skirts : PLEATED
9
Breaches : RENTS
10
At all : ONCE
11
Cry from Marley's partner : BAH
12
City dwellings : APARTMENTHOUSES
13
Holding periods : TENURES
14
Certain hormones : ESTRINS
21
Villein : ESNE
24
Buckwheat-family weeds : SORRELS
26
Situated near the kidneys : ADRENAL
28
Lady in Petrarch's sonnets : LAURA
30
Daunt : APPAL
36
Chief city of ancient Thessaly : LARISSA
37
Wiley or Post : AVIATOR
38
Rosaceous shrubs : SPIREAS
39
Husband of Emilia : IAGO
40
Pantomime of a sort : CHARADE
42
Type of type : ITALICS
43
Winding : SINUATE
48
Venerative groups : CULTS
49
A Sorbonne student : RAPIN
52
" ... baked in ___" : APIE
53
Pinchbeck : SHAM
56
A wd. often ending in "ing" : PPL
58
___ vapeur (steamed) : ALA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 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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