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Jeff Herrington
Jeff Herrington

New York Times, Monday, July 6, 1992

12-Down : Use a forked branch

Author:
Jeff Herrington
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.63, Missing: { Q V X }, Scrabble score: 303 (avg 1.64)
Open Squares: 58, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Jeff Herrington has 16 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 5 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,581
Across
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Nether world : HADES
6
Kind of school : PREP
10
Urchin : TAD
13
Novelist Truman ___ : CAPOTE
14
Shakespearean villain : IAGO
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Fuss : ADO
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Famous Western trail : OREGON
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Relish or canine : CHOWCHOW
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Speech impediment : LISP
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Queries : ASKS
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Saloon swingers? : DOORS
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Kind of turf or physics : ASTRO
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Unruffled : SERENE
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Singer LaBelle : PATTI
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Provide : AFFORD
31
Throw out : EJECT
32
A-1 : TOPS
33
J.F.K. follower : LBJ
36
Hasty : RASH
37
Phoenix rebirth stuff : ASHES
39
Poet Teasdale : SARA
40
An N.Y.C. subway : IRT
41
Medicinal plant : ALOE
42
Baseball's home-run champ : AARON
43
Small vial : AMPULE
45
Baker's coating : GLAZE
46
Soap plants : AMOLES
49
Small land mass : ISLET
51
Challenger : DARER
52
Belli is one: Abbr. : ATTY
53
Peteman : YEGG
57
Aerial combat : DOGFIGHT
59
Means of directing a course : RUDDER
61
Notable period : ERA
62
Work for 52 Across : CASE
63
One using a mangle : IRONER
64
Noise : DIN
65
Cupid : AMOR
66
___-store Indian : CIGAR
Down
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Dancer-spy : HARI
2
Simians : APES
3
Li'l Abner's locale : DOGPATCH
4
Ike's command : ETO
5
French law body : SENAT
6
Choice canine : PICKOFTHELITTER
7
Fall sounds : RAHS
8
Conceit : EGO
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Gun and face chasers : POWDERS
10
Western lake : TAHOE
11
Decorate : ADORN
12
Use a forked branch : DOWSE
13
Mil. rank : COL
18
Lanyard : CORD
21
Sp. lady : SRA
24
Preside : SIT
25
Bribes : SOPS
26
Pretty woman : PERI
27
Almost open : AJAR
28
Dry run : TEST
30
Antagonist : FOE
33
Byron poem : LARA
34
Tito : BROZ
35
Plain ___ : JANE
37
The Dolomites, e.g. : ALPS
38
Napoleonic coin : SOU
39
Mixed drink : SALTYDOG
41
"___ the Beautiful" : AMERICA
42
Vital statistic : AGE
43
Hebrew letter : ALEF
44
Time-zone abbr. : EST
46
Supplementary : ADDED
47
Certain New Zealander : MAORI
48
Harmonium : ORGAN
50
Poetry type : LYRIC
52
Chan's exclamation : AHSO
54
Best of Hollywood : EDNA
55
Memorable actor from Ind. : GEER
56
Fido's warning : GRR
58
Whaler's conversation asea : GAM
60
Ocean State inst. : URI

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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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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