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Melvin Kenworthy
Melvin Kenworthy

New York Times, Tuesday, September 2, 1986

51-Down : Sphere

Author:
Melvin Kenworthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 4.84, Missing: { F J K P Q Y }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Melvin Kenworthy has 23 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,447
Across
1
Greek marketplace : AGORA
6
___ Vegas : LAS
9
One ___ time : ATA
12
Nomad : ROVER
13
Lightning unit : BOLT
14
Urban blight : SMOG
15
Over : AGAIN
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Curved molding : OGEE
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Little Boy Blue's instrument : HORN
18
Senior citizen : GOLDENAGER
20
Yorkshire river : OUSE
21
Dimension : SIZE
22
Confined : NARROW
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Dangerous fly : TSETSE
28
Laughing : RIANT
30
Rhine feeder : AARE
31
Peggy from Boston : CASS
33
Parisian cup : TASSE
37
Like some homes : BILEVEL
39
Little or Texas follower : LEAGUER
41
Part of "Aïda" : SCENA
42
Mulligan ___ : STEW
44
Patron saint of sailors : ELMO
45
Mail : ARMOR
47
Campaign topics : ISSUES
49
Jiggs's spouse : MAGGIE
52
"Rule, Britannia" composer : ARNE
54
Car part : AXLE
55
Submitting to control : MANAGEABLE
61
Fashion's Christian : DIOR
62
Boom's opposite : BUST
63
Characteristic : TRAIT
64
Oodles : GOBS
65
City in Pa. : ERIE
66
Biblical prophet : HOSEA
67
Uncle from Aberdeen : EME
68
Squealer : RAT
69
Utopian spots : EDENS
Down
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Berlin's "He's ___ Picker" : ARAG
2
Waiter for Godet : GOGO
3
Office on the Potomac : OVAL
4
Journalist Whitelaw: 1837-1912 : REID
5
He played Matt Dillon : ARNESS
6
Timber topplers : LOGGERS
7
Away from the wind : ALEE
8
Breastbones : STERNA
9
Love, Parisian style : AMOUR
10
Trunk : TORSO
11
Vice President after Humphrey : AGNEW
13
Ruth's second husband : BOAZ
14
Deficits : SHORTAGES
19
Caroline, to E.M.K. : NIECE
23
Square column : ANTA
24
Aids in filing : TABS
25
Levantine ketch : SAIC
26
First name in whodunits : ERLE
27
Adolescents : TEENAGERS
29
Man or Wight : ISLE
32
In addition : ALSO
34
Sea of the Philippines : SULU
35
Ornamental pattern in art : SEME
36
Topic of Plato's "Symposium" : EROS
38
Ruffed lemur : VARI
40
Adlai Stevenson's middle name : EWING
43
Surveyor's instrument : TRANSIT
46
The M in M.P. : MEMBER
48
Be agitated : SEETHE
49
___ Wildfire, Scott character : MADGE
50
Maxim : AXIOM
51
Sphere : GLOBE
53
Assess : RATE
56
Enveloping glow : AURA
57
A grandson of Jacob : AROD
58
Diamond point : BASE
59
Claim of a sort : LIEN
60
Letters from Greece : ETAS

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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