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Virginia L. Yates
Virginia L. Yates

New York Times, Monday, July 29, 1991

25-Down : Orissa rustic

Author:
Virginia L. Yates
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 297 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Virginia L. Yates has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,238
Across
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"Go get 'em" word : SIC
4
Hammerstein II : OSCAR
9
Original : FRESH
14
Make a pitch for : WOO
15
"K-K-K-Katy" composer : OHARA
16
Gear for a gaucho : REATA
17
Bristle : AWN
18
Freed-N.H. Brown song: 1935 : MYLUCKYSTAR
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Pola of silents : NEGRI
22
Fifi's friend : AMIE
23
Volt or watt : UNIT
24
Get new guns : REARM
26
A buttercup : ANEMONE
28
Song from "Good News": 1927 : LUCKYINLOVE
30
Pirates' pelf : LOOT
31
"A Chorus Line" tune : ONE
32
Prize for a mystery tale : EDGAR
36
Puncture's prefix : ACU
37
Pittsburgh pro : STEELER
40
Id's cohort : EGO
41
The ___ Kid, O'Henry creation : CISCO
43
Racket : DIN
44
Gaudy : LOUD
45
Song from "On the Town": 1944 : LUCKYTOBEME
49
Lame duck, often : ALSORAN
52
Sidestep : ELUDE
53
Bird or boob : LOON
54
Equal : PEER
56
Like Hamelin : RATTY
59
Song from "Guys and Dolls": 1950 : LUCKBEALADY
62
Kick oneself : RUE
63
Tended a squeaky wheel : OILED
64
Computer morsel : DATUM
65
"___ Man Answers," S. Dee film : IFA
66
Garden intruders : WEEDS
67
Catty : SNIDE
68
Auburn or Oakland : CAR
Down
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Ballet bird : SWAN
2
Bob Hope's "___ Russia $1200" : IOWE
3
Fitting : CONGRUOUS
4
Tupek dweller's craft : OOMIAK
5
Flinch : SHY
6
Powder used in lotions : CALAMINE
7
Jack-in-the-pulpit : ARUM
8
Kind of prejudice : RACIAL
9
"The Lady's Not for Burning" playwright : FRY
10
Went back to : RESUMED
11
" ... could ___ fat" : EATNO
12
Spot : STAIN
13
Creator of Ah Sin : HARTE
19
Bingolike game : KENO
21
Right: Comb. form : RECT
25
Orissa rustic : RYOT
27
Perpetually : EVER
28
Places : LOCI
29
Penurious : NEEDY
30
Resin base : LAC
33
Kind of progression : GEOMETRIC
34
Shivers : AGUE
35
Gat : ROD
37
Go bad : SOUR
38
Bookish folk : LITERATI
39
Lab substance : ENOL
42
Whacked : CLONKED
44
A satellite of Jupiter : LEDA
46
Cod, for one : CAPE
47
Makes dough : KNEADS
48
"___ Not on the Lone Prairie" : BURYME
49
O.K. : ALLOW
50
Comic-strip hero : LOUIE
51
Pedestal, to Pei : SOCLE
55
Spirit : ELAN
57
Porous rock : TUFA
58
Once around Sol : YEAR
60
Wall St. abbr. : BDS
61
Washout : DUD

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

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