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Kevin Boyle
Kevin Boyle

New York Times, Saturday, August 17, 1991

12-Down : Curse

Author:
Kevin Boyle
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.39, Missing: { J K Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 102, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
Kevin Boyle has 32 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,257
Across
1
Mail recipient : ADDRESSEE
10
"You can ___ horse to water ... " : LEADA
15
The Socratic method : MAIEUTICS
16
Kind of city or tube : INNER
17
Scream blue murder : OVERREACT
18
Exploits : FEATS
19
Laughingstock, in Lille : RISEE
20
Face courageously : BRAVE
22
Drive a nail obliquely : TOE
23
Yemeni seaport : ADEN
24
Waste time : LOITER
25
Barbarous brute : HUN
26
Rhythmic swing : LILT
27
Appropriate without permission : ANNEX
28
Greek queen of heaven : HERA
29
Snaky characters : ESSES
30
Pontoon : CAMEL
31
Atrip : AWEIGH
35
Itinerants : NOMADS
36
Mottled : PINTO
37
Monastery superior : ABBOT
40
Elbe feeder : OSTE
41
Bobbled the ball : ERRED
42
Subject of a Mallarmé poem : FAUN
46
Curling target : TEE
47
Work on a cryptogram : DECODE
48
___ Domini : ANNO
49
Cinematic computer : HAL
50
Dedicate : ALLOT
51
Quick shot : SNORT
52
Brilliance : ECLAT
54
At the beginning : ADINITIUM
56
Greenness, in Germany : GRUNE
57
Reminders : MEMORANDA
58
Small plateaus : MESAS
59
Bestowed : PRESENTED
Down
1
Not involving questions of right or wrong : AMORAL
2
King of Scotland: 1124-53 : DAVIDI
3
Automotive engineer Rudolf : DIESEL
4
Lease again : RERENT
5
French department : EURE
6
Sault ___ Marie : STE
7
Hybrid apes : SIABONS
8
Of certain sweat glands : ECCRINE
9
Sights at Newport : ESTATES
10
Long-time mil. professional : LIFER
11
San Francisco-to-Salt Lake City dir. : ENE
12
Curse : ANATHEMA
13
Used an alternate route perforce : DETOURED
14
Places for matériel : ARSENALS
21
Harrow : VEX
24
Switch : LASH
28
Part of a western : HAM
29
Monogram of Nina Leeds's creator : EGO
30
Small shelter : COT
31
Pithy saying : APOTHEGM
32
Smart aleck : WISEACRE
33
Sacred monkey of India : ENTELLUS
34
"Go!" to Gaius : ITE
35
Orbital point : NODE
37
High-intensity light : ARCLAMP
38
Where the chicks are : BROODER
39
Kind of story : BEDTIME
41
One of the Apodes : EEL
42
Parliament; sevens : FANTAN
43
Apply oil in consecration : ANOINT
44
Not brusque : UNRUDE
45
"Made us nobly wild, ___": R. Herrick : NOTMAD
47
Arabian staples : DATES
51
Beget : SIRE
53
Santa ___, volcano in El Salvador : ANA
55
"___ Knife," Beckett book : NOS

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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