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Rita Yelle
Rita Yelle

New York Times, Friday, September 23, 1988

42-Down : Oscar ___, memorable pianist

Author:
Rita Yelle
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.39, Missing: { F J K Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 256 (avg 1.32)
Open Squares: 84, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Rita Yelle has 10 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,199
Across
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Makes a grating sound : RASPS
6
Mild soap : CASTILE
13
Jazzy swinger : HEPCAT
14
Sandpaper, for one : ABRADANT
16
Emulate Corrigan : AVIATE
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Small, enclosed place : ROOMETTE
18
Bartletts : PEARS
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Actress Arthur : BEA
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Thrifty one : SAVER
21
Money for Loren : LIRE
22
Warning : ALERT
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Letter opener : SIRS
25
Hebrew judge : ELI
26
Public disgrace : SCANDAL
28
Chemical suffix : ASE
29
Spreads lavishly : SLATHERS
31
___ Pàtos, Cypriot town : NEA
33
Taste or smell : SENSATE
34
Thin plates : LAMINAE
38
Arafat's gp. : PLO
39
Harsh or severe : RIGOROUS
40
Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du ___" : MAL
43
Vivify : ENLIVEN
45
Time-zone abbr. : MST
46
Trip for Tacitus : ITER
48
One of the lotophagi : EATER
49
Mulberry-bark cloth : TAPA
50
Atypical : NOVEL
52
Major, in music : DUR
53
C.P.A.'s task : AUDIT
54
Large snake : ANACONDA
56
Edit films : SPLICE
57
Guard : SENTINEL
58
Mixes a salad : TOSSES
59
Pitting devices : STONERS
60
What marks fall for : SCAMS
Down
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Morning assembly call : REVEILLE
2
Of beekeeping : APIARIAN
3
Frighten : SCARE
4
Light slaps : PATS
5
Sault ___ Marie : STE
6
Tips to one side : CAREENS
7
On the jet : ABOARD
8
Pleased producer's placard : SRO
9
Glaswegians' headgear : TAMS
10
"I Get ___," 1951 song : IDEAS
11
Where Daugavpils is : LATVIA
12
Goes inside : ENTERS
13
Unfortunate : HAPLESS
15
Very short : TERSE
19
Sound loudly : BLARE
22
Element in nail-polish remover : ACETONE
23
Passerine bird : TANAGER
26
Fissile rock : SHALE
27
Drop flavor : LEMON
30
Recipe abbr. : TSP
32
Bring into the open : AIR
34
It gets the wurst : LIVER
35
Vagrancy : NOMADISM
36
Aegis : AUSPICES
37
Large land holdings : ESTATES
39
Ceremonies : RITUALS
40
Uruguayan resort town : MINAS
41
Makes reparation : ATONES
42
Oscar ___, memorable pianist : LEVANT
44
Roofer's need : LADDER
47
Right-hand page : RECTO
49
Okla. oil center : TULSA
51
Cut of pork : LOIN
53
N.T. book : APOC
55
Pisa-to-Verona dir. : NNE
56
Kin of aves. : STS

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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