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William Canine
William Canine

New York Times, Friday, August 14, 1992

35-Down : Feckless ones

Author:
William Canine
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.29, Missing: { F Q X }, Scrabble score: 300 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 56, Cheaters: 14, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
William Canine has 65 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,620
Across
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Indonesian island : CERAM
6
Mores : ETHOS
11
City on the Rhone : GENEVA
12
Language family including Finnish : URALIC
14
More affected : ARTIER
15
Emmy winner Tony : RANDALL
17
Deli order : BLT
18
Shipyard feature : DRYDOCK
20
Bovine cry : MOO
21
Bellow : ROAR
23
Conked out : SLEPT
24
Bulgarian coins : LEVA
25
The Ram : ARIES
27
Mickey was her first husband : AVA
28
Formed a foundation for : BASED
29
Maigret colleague : GENDARME
31
Cheats : COZENS
32
Capital of Slovenia : LJUBLJANA
34
Only pope from England : ADRIAN
37
Wild grain : OATGRASS
41
Lark : PRANK
42
Napoleon Solo, for one : SPY
43
Roman dictator : SULLA
44
Fried bread : PONE
45
Cover: Comb. form : STEGO
47
Spinnaker, e.g. : SAIL
48
U.S.N. officer : ENS
49
Digs : BURROWS
51
This may be marked "Pd." : RCT
52
"Il Trovatore" heroine : LEONORA
54
Wild : UNTAME
56
Nose-wrinkling : SMELLY
57
Sprang : LEAPED
58
Influences : SWAYS
59
Wood nymph : DRYAD
Down
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Unquestionable : CERTAIN
2
Suffix for differ : ENT
3
Editor Whitelaw ___: 1837-1912 : REID
4
Declares : AVERS
5
Elia's sister and co-author : MARYLAMB
6
One of Zeus's conquests : EUROPA
7
Pamphlet : TRACT
8
Aaron or Greenberg of baseball : HANK
9
Venerable : OLD
10
Thai : SIAMESE
11
In abundance : GALORE
13
Split : CLOVEN
16
Burdens : LOADS
17
Vaunt : BRAG
19
One with lots to talk about : DEVELOPER
22
Jones's "The Thin ___" : REDLINE
24
Miss Liberty's poet : LAZARUS
26
White colleague : SAJAK
28
Notes from Big Ben : BONGS
30
The ___ for the roses : RUN
31
Jazzman, to jazzmen : CAT
33
Black Friday's precipitator: 1869 : JAYGOULD
34
Fencer's feint : APPEL
35
Feckless ones : DRONES
36
Deliverances : RANSOMS
38
Fearful : ALARMED
39
Opposite of hooked, in golf : SLICED
40
Season : SALT
42
Mavericks : STRAYS
45
Ill-tempered : SURLY
46
One of the landed gentry : OWNER
49
Gaucho's weapon : BOLA
50
Remain : STAY
53
Neoteric : NEW
55
Brazilian border river : APA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 6 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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