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Bette Sue Cohen
Bette Sue Cohen

New York Times, Monday, September 27, 1993

60-Down : One of the Aleutians

Author:
Bette Sue Cohen
Editor:
Mel Taub
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Bette Sue Cohen has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 6 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 16,029
Across
1
Tense : TAUT
5
Label for a sale : RETAG
10
Celebration : GALA
14
___ regni : ANNO
15
Ancient marketplace : AGORA
16
Hitters' stats : RBIS
17
By the ___ (barely) : SKINOFONESTEETH
20
Lecher of myth : SATYR
21
Dessert forerunners : ENTREES
22
Feudal figure : SERF
25
Track transport in Tampico : TREN
26
One of a well-known seven : SEA
29
Charge for a cannon : LOAD
31
___ time (individually) : ONEATA
35
Diamond figures : UMPS
37
Familiar byline : ANON
39
Persian Empire founder : CYRUS
40
Act impulsively : GOHEADOVERHEELS
43
Listing : ATILT
44
Glacial snow : NEVE
45
Reversal of stet : DELE
46
Fixes clocks for D.S.T. : RESETS
48
Milieu of 26 Down : RING
50
Be permissive : LET
51
Actor James from the Bronx : CAAN
53
Tasty flatfish : SOLE
55
Knuckler, slider, etc. : PITCHES
58
R.N. nemesis in W.W. II : UBOAT
62
With barely enough to get by on : FROMHANDTOMOUTH
65
Novelist Jaffe : RONA
66
Broadcast again : REAIR
67
Prefer : LIKE
68
To ___ (everyone) : AMAN
69
Set a price : ASKED
70
Englishman's expression : ISAY
Down
1
Soviet news agency : TASS
2
Paul from Ottawa : ANKA
3
Squadron or wing : UNIT
4
Bennett and Roberts : TONYS
5
Luftwaffe's foe : RAF
6
Kind of trip : EGO
7
Color quality : TONE
8
"___ You Glad You're You?": 1945 song : ARENT
9
Stomach: Comb. form : GASTRO
10
Full of envy : GREENEYED
11
___ in one's bonnet : ABEE
12
Wagons ___ (European sleeping cars) : LITS
13
Bat wood : ASH
18
Hershiser : OREL
19
Defensive excavation : TRENCH
23
Yellow Brick, for one : ROAD
24
Papal cape : FANON
26
___ Ray Leonard : SUGAR
27
Chew the scenery : EMOTE
28
Garden pest : APHIS
30
It's opposite Calais : DOVER
32
Spinning : AREEL
33
Veil material : TULLE
34
Balance-sheet item : ASSET
36
New England town official : SELECTMAN
38
Isle near St. Christopher : NEVIS
41
Take by writ : ATTACH
42
She succeeded Barr : RENO
47
It's 3.5 million square miles : SAHARA
49
Sullen : GLUM
52
Baby boys, in Madrid : NENES
54
Town near Salerno : EBOLI
55
"___ Night," 1980 horror film : PROM
56
Island off Mull : IONA
57
Pierre is its cap. : SDAK
59
Affirmatives in Arles : OUIS
60
One of the Aleutians : ATKA
61
"___ asked me how I knew..." : THEY
62
Monastery figure : FRA
63
Formal must : TIE
64
Central Neb. city : ORD

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 1 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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