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Norma Steinberg
Norma Steinberg

New York Times, Friday, September 27, 1991

24-Down : Prank

Author:
Norma Steinberg
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Norma Steinberg has 35 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 17 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,298
Across
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Elec. units : AMPS
5
Wallace sidekick : SAFER
10
Thrash : WHIP
14
Author of "Men of Iron" : PYLE
15
Simulacrum : IMAGE
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Con job : RUSE
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Butcher shop: Fr. : ETAL
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Underaged digger? : MINORMINER
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English coin : SHILLING
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Start : OUTSET
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Dancer-mime Parenti : NOEL
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Like a button? : CUTE
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Lay blame upon : IMPUTE
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Choice for a Wave's boudoir? : WATERBED
31
Skeezix's adoptive father : WALT
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Rubbed clean : WIPED
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Yay, matador! : OLE
34
Co-attendant on Cleo : IRAS
35
Got by : FARED
36
Align : TRUE
37
Peccancy : SIN
38
Muezzin : CRIER
39
Trouts' spawning ground : REDD
40
Unmindful : HEEDLESS
42
A to F : GRADES
44
Eden-to-Nod direction : EAST
45
Schoolgoer in a rhyme : LAMB
46
Lie in wait for : AMBUSH
49
Containers for slow cooking of stews : BEANPOTS
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Chagall's lines? : MARCSMARKS
55
Julie Christie role: 1965 : LARA
56
Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1958 : AGEE
57
Ram that is starry-eyed : ARIES
58
Comic Idle : ERIC
59
A salutation : SIRS
60
Indigent : NEEDY
61
Dental degs. : DDSS
Down
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Barbary swingers : APES
2
Theseus-Minotaur tale, e.g. : MYTH
3
Stripped-down aircraft? : PLAINPLANE
4
S.R.O. shows : SELLOUTS
5
One of the tropes : SIMILE
6
Lebanon's ___ Gemayel : AMIN
7
Diller's "husband" : FANG
8
I, to Claudius : EGO
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Detoured : REROUTED
10
Grub Street denizen : WRITER
11
Ephthalites : HUNS
12
"The More ___ You" : ISEE
13
Sassy : PERT
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Toned down : MUTED
21
Service call : LET
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Prank : CAPER
25
"Den ___ I was in Dixie" : IWISH
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Mme. Curie : MARIE
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Filigree materials : WIRES
28
Committee afflicted with ennui? : BOREDBOARD
29
Baffle : ELUDE
30
Homeowners' papers : DEEDS
32
In 36-26-36, the 26 : WAIST
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Novice : FRESHMAN
36
Trod upon : TRAMPLED
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Kidney : CLASS
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These are often wild : DEUCES
42
Vitreous : GLASSY
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Award-winning Japanese film : RAN
46
Candlenuts : AMAS
47
Subjects of a T. S. Eliot poem : MAGI
48
___ Rabbit : BRER
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Historic dairy land E of Paris : BRIE
50
A rhyme for leaked : EKED
51
Baseball star Speaker : TRIS
52
Black Hawk's tribe : SACS
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"We ___ the World" : ARE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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