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Margaret W. Huskey
Margaret W. Huskey

New York Times, Thursday, September 12, 1991

6-Down : Early Britisher

Author:
Margaret W. Huskey
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { F J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Margaret W. Huskey has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,283
Across
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One-celled animal : AMEBA
6
Lumberman's boots : PACS
10
Noah's eldest son : SHEM
14
Regard highly : VALUE
15
"___ a man with ... " : IMET
16
___ Alto, Calif. : PALO
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Forward : ALONG
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Caesar's co-star : COCA
19
Shot and shell : AMMO
20
Mississippi-Missouri, in U.S.A. : LONGESTRIVER
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Kind of dog : LAP
24
A basic part of matter : ELECTRON
28
Of the backbone : SPINAL
31
Brownish gray : TAUPE
32
Solar disk : ATEN
33
Mignonette : RESEDA
37
Ovid's 52 : LII
38
Boeing 747 manufacturing plant, in U.S.A. : LARGESTBUILDING
41
Kind : ILK
42
Word with Bear or Dog : LESSER
43
Arrow poison : INEE
44
Brother's daughter : NIECE
46
Labels again : RETAGS
48
Expose to injury : ENDANGER
52
Kind of scan : CAT
53
Grand Canyon, in U.S.A. : LARGESTGORGE
58
Actor Jannings : EMIL
61
Biblical country : ARAM
62
Actor in "Love Story" : ONEAL
63
Type of cotton : PIMA
64
The Venerable ___ : BEDE
65
Lies at anchor : RIDES
66
The Cottians, e.g. : ALPS
67
Scouse is one : STEW
68
Paris's ___ polytechnique : ECOLE
Down
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Of grandparents : AVAL
2
Hawaiian loin cloth : MALO
3
Author of "Herzl" : ELON
4
Clumsy fellow's problem : BUNGLING
5
Poseidon's realm : AEGEAN
6
Early Britisher : PICT
7
Casanova's delight : AMORE
8
Capp's Sir ___ Cesspool : CECIL
9
Barrel part : STAVE
10
Resort in N.C. : SPARTA
11
A brother of 10 Across : HAM
12
Ulmaceous plant : ELM
13
Low : MOO
21
Meager : SPARSE
22
Outward : ECTAL
25
Prevalent : RULING
26
Thinks : OPINES
27
Snow, in Sedan : NEIGE
28
Confrère at Potsdam: 1945 : STALIN
29
Made jaunty, with "up" : PERKED
30
Leases : LETS
32
Wife in Ibsen's "The Master Builder" : ALINE
34
Stats for Rickey Henderson : SBS
35
Your, in Bonn : EUER
36
Show the way : DIRECT
39
Santa ___, Ecuadorean peninsula : ELENA
40
Kind of scale : DIATONIC
45
Memorable diva from N.Y.C. : CALLAS
47
Famed Hindu poet: 1861-1941 : TAGORE
49
Clutches : GRABS
50
White-plumed bird : EGRET
51
British author: 1814-84 : READE
54
Diving duck : SMEW
55
Decorate again : REDO
56
Highlander : GAEL
57
Otherwise : ELSE
58
Agcy. watching over ecology : EPA
59
Wire measure : MIL
60
Little demon : IMP

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 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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