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Lois Sidway
Lois Sidway

New York Times, Friday, August 19, 1988

40-Down : Tough; firm

Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.14, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Lois Sidway has 67 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 18 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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L
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D
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C
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C
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,164
Across
1
Hines and Siepi : BASSI
6
Prospero's servant : ARIEL
11
Essential parts : VITALS
12
Badinage : BANTER
14
A 1947 musical : HIGHBUTTONSHOES
17
Passion, in Bath : ARDOUR
18
Abhor : HATE
19
Slangy negative : NAW
20
A day in Livy's life : DIES
21
Sometimes it flies : FUR
22
Bis : TWICE
24
Character in "Charley's Aunt" : ELA
25
Kin of duikerboks : ELANDS
28
Broadway org. : ANTA
29
Ferrer or Brooks : MEL
30
Thin rope : CORD
31
Check : ARREST
33
Menotti work : THEMEDIUM
35
Objets d'art : CURIOS
38
Tyson's "kingdom" : RING
39
Explorer Johnson : OSA
42
Unfold : OPEN
43
Peasant footwear : SABOTS
45
El ___, Spanish hero : CID
46
James and Kett : ETTAS
48
"My country, ___ of thee" : TIS
49
Comic Jay : LENO
50
"Le Coq ___" : DOR
51
Señor's love : AMOR
53
Casino employee : DEALER
55
Gershwin song: 1925 : SWEETANDLOWDOWN
58
Mother who can be cruel : NATURE
59
Describing a winter glaze : SLEETY
60
Like most TV shows : TAPED
61
Sea swallows : TERNS
Down
1
"So what!" : BIGDEAL
2
Friend of D'Artagnan : ATHOS
3
"Elephant Boy" star : SABU
4
Insult : SLUR
5
Believer: Suffix : IST
6
On the plane : ABOARD
7
Carry on : RANT
8
Mosaic piece, e.g. : INSET
9
Biblical verb ending : ETH
10
Kind of verse : LEONINE
11
Manly : VIRILE
13
Responds to a stimulus : REACTS
14
"Adam/___" (verse re microbes) : HADEM
15
Creature painted on Indian artifacts : THUNDERBIRD
16
Word with suit or socks : SWEAT
21
Hayseed's milieu : FARM
23
Cordial : WARM
25
Reverberate : ECHO
26
Fine-grained, fertile loam : LOESS
27
Patrick, for one : SAINT
32
Rag products : RUGS
33
Singer Turner : TINA
34
"Vaya Con ___" : DIOS
35
Some of the West Pointers : COEDS
36
In Manhattan's residential section : UPTOWN
37
Go back : RETREAT
39
Spotted felines : OCELOTS
40
Tough; firm : SINEWY
41
Decorate : ADORN
44
Made amends : ATONED
47
Postponed bedtime : SATUP
49
Burdened : LADEN
52
Actress Winningham : MARE
53
Robert or Elizabeth : DOLE
54
Pitcher : EWER
56
Greek letter : ETA
57
U.S. naval vessel : LST

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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