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Michael A. Rampino
Michael A. Rampino

New York Times, Wednesday, September 25, 1991

56-Down : Prefix for dynamics

Author:
Michael A. Rampino
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.76, Missing: { F J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 243 (avg 1.34)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Michael A. Rampino has 33 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,296
Across
1
Prepare for publication : EDIT
5
Monk's garb : COWL
9
NASA's concern : SPACE
14
Father : SIRE
15
Sandusky's lake : ERIE
16
^ : CARET
17
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Gladiators' sandy battlefield : ARENA
20
Jockey : RIDER
21
Bowling-alley button : RESET
22
Kind of carpet : TAPIS
25
British gun : STEN
27
Readers : PERUSERS
30
Kefauver : ESTES
33
Descendant of Judah : OREN
34
Relative of etc. : ETAL
36
Shell of a ship : HULL
38
Cousin of a gator : CROC
39
Analyze grammatically : PARSE
40
Sponsorship : EGIS
41
Scot's skirt : KILT
42
She loves: Lat. : AMAT
43
Dispatched : SENT
44
Impertinent : SAUCY
46
Family in "Peter Pan" : DARLINGS
49
Too : ALSO
51
Mitigates : EASES
52
Subside : ABATE
55
Ruth's mother-in-law : NAOMI
58
Song from "West Side Story" : MARIA
59
64
Hunter constellation : ORION
65
Notable time periods : ERAS
66
For fear that : LEST
67
O'Casey and Connery : SEANS
68
Rocky crags : TORS
69
— : DASH
Down
1
J. B. Rhine's interest : ESP
2
Day, in Durango : DIA
3
Like some vbs. : IRR
4
Bohea or congou : TEA
5
Cherry red : CERISE
6
Toward the mouth : ORAD
7
Dry the dishes : WIPE
8
Glassmakers' ovens : LEHRS
9
Alarms : SCARES
10
11
Son of Zeus and Hera : ARES
12
Recent: Comb. form : CENE
13
"L'___ c'est moi" : ETAT
18
Spanish Cubist painter : GRIS
22
"Pacem in ___": John XXIII : TERRIS
23
Interstice : AREOLA
24
One concern of a proofreader : PUNCTUATION
26
Far: Comb. form : TELE
27
Small indentation : POCK
28
Use an auger : REAM
29
Mus. heirloom : STRAD
31
University of Ore. site : EUGENE
32
First-aid contrivances : SLINGS
35
Movie dog : ASTA
37
D-day boats : LSTS
39
Yields a profit : PAYS
45
Washes : CLEANS
47
Careless : REMISS
48
Secular : LAIC
50
Start : ONSET
52
An Alcott : AMOS
53
Unadorned : BARE
54
Opera highlight : ARIA
56
Prefix for dynamics : AERO
57
Tent-making poet : OMAR
60
Long in the tooth : OLD
61
Grassland : LEA
62
C.I.A. antecedent : OSS
63
Ultimate degree : NTH

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1 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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