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Irene Smullyan
Irene Smullyan

New York Times, Thursday, July 27, 1989

31-Down : Embryo cleric

Author:
Irene Smullyan
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { F J X }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Irene Smullyan has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,506
Across
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Cole accompaniment : SLAW
5
Prunes : LOPS
9
Chevalier vehicle : GIGI
13
Secretary's error : TYPO
14
___ New Guinea : PAPUA
15
Town in S France : UZES
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Saudi Arabian province : ASIR
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Change for the better : AMEND
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Allege as a fact : AVER
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Small-time : NICKELANDDIME
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Massage : KNEAD
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Part of a door : SILL
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Dallas inst. : SMU
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Religious school : YESHIVA
30
Privately financed U.S. satellite : TELSTAR
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Upright : ONEND
34
Ireland, to a Gael : EIRE
35
American foreign policy re business interests : DOLLARDIPLOMACY
41
Yours, to Pierre : ATOI
42
"Vice" mecca on TV : MIAMI
43
Tropical birds : TOUCANS
47
Arise : EMANATE
51
Twilight time, to Tennyson : EEN
52
Costly : DEAR
54
Word on a Czech's check : HALER
55
Refused to be clement : GAVENOQUARTER
59
Caesar's road : ITER
61
Opening : DEBUT
62
Jot : IOTA
63
___ nostrum : MARE
64
N. Y. island : ELLIS
65
Aromatic herb of the Bible : ANET
66
Kisser : PUSS
67
Colored : DYED
68
Honshu city : NARA
Down
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Former infielder, called The Brat : STANKY
2
Important amino acid : LYSINE
3
Pinnacles : APICES
4
He sleeps with his briefcase : WORKAHOLIC
5
Tibetan priest : LAMA
6
Unclogs : OPENS
7
Hindu savant : PUNDIT
8
Impose a burden : SADDLE
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One of the Marianas : GUAM
10
Official Soviet newspaper : IZVESTIA
11
Turn right : GEE
12
Medit. country : ISR
14
Joey, e.g. : PAL
20
Suburb of Minneapolis : EDINA
21
Not in the pink : ILL
25
Grape residue : MARC
26
Nobelist in Chemistry: 1934 : UREY
28
Sight, in Sevilla : VER
29
Connective : AND
31
Embryo cleric : SEMINARIAN
33
Darken : DIM
35
Point in time : DATE
36
Nebraska Indian : OTOE
37
Indolent ones : LOUNGERS
38
Key lime, e.g. : PIE
39
On the ___ (gangland phrase) : LAM
40
City on the Missouri : OMAHA
44
Gram. form : ADV
45
Lacking : NEEDED
46
In a rational manner : SANELY
48
Part of Hamburg : ALTONA
49
Waver : TEETER
50
Printers' mistakes : ERRATA
53
White oak : ROBLE
56
Father of Hippolyte : ARES
57
A pound, in Soho : QUID
58
Early dos : UTS
59
Little devil : IMP
60
Greek letter : TAU

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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