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Peter Gordon
Peter Gordon

New York Times, Tuesday, September 5, 1989

54-Down : Vacuum-cleaner noise

Author:
Peter Gordon
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { none — this is a pangram }, Scrabble score: 305 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Peter Gordon has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 109 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,546
Across
1
Snug : COZY
5
Indonesia's ___ Islands : BANDA
10
Pilgrimage to Mecca : HADJ
14
Fired : AXED
15
Like the walls at Harvard : IVIED
16
Part of the eye : UVEA
17
Richard Thomas film: 1970 : REDSKYATMORNING
20
Printers' measures : ENS
21
Hawaiian necklaces : LEIS
22
Heats excessively : ROASTS
23
Osso buco ingredient : VEAL
24
A long time : AEON
25
Dexter, e.g. : STEER
27
Cousin of a frat house : DORM
28
Baden-Baden, for one : SPA
31
Arab potentate : EMIR
32
Give the eye, evilly : LEER
34
Gone, as a dinner : EATEN
36
Al Pacino film: 1975 : DOGDAYAFTERNOON
39
Moral principle : ETHIC
40
E. Caldwell's "Tobacco ___" : ROAD
41
Mrs. Charles Chaplin : OONA
42
Seine : NET
43
Competent : ABLE
45
Breathes laboriously : GASPS
47
Andy's radio partner : AMOS
48
Assistant : AIDE
49
Prevailing customs : USAGES
52
Teen's skin woe : ACNE
53
Reverence plus fear : AWE
56
Meryl Streep film: 1982 : STILLOFTHENIGHT
59
In the buff : NUDE
60
Finishes a chess game : MATES
61
Call it a day : QUIT
62
Med-school subject : ANAT
63
Tuxedo shirt buttons, usually : STUDS
64
Antitoxins : SERA
Down
1
Give a hoot : CARE
2
Yoked animals : OXEN
3
Last letters in London : ZEDS
4
N.F.L. gains : YDS
5
Once every 24 months : BIYEARLY
6
Benefit : AVAIL
7
Units of luminous intensity : NITS
8
E.M.K. is one : DEM
9
Romeo, to Juliet : ADORER
10
Province in China : HUNAN
11
Advice, in Arles : AVIS
12
Fender bender : DENT
13
Barbs : JAGS
18
"Fish Magic" painter : KLEE
19
Paying guest : ROOMER
23
Composer of "La forza del destino" : VERDI
24
Heart artery : AORTA
25
Struck sharply : SMOTE
26
Stingy : TIGHT
27
Author of "Robinson Crusoe" : DEFOE
28
Small porch : STOOP
29
Menial workers : PEONS
30
Tolstoy's "___ Karenina" : ANNA
31
First place : EDEN
33
House of Lords group : EARLS
35
Has ___ for news : ANOSE
37
" ... easier for ___ to go through the eye of a needle ... ": Bible : ACAMEL
38
Tense feeling : EDGINESS
44
Embraces : BOSOMS
46
Capital of South Yemen : ADEN
47
End of a shoelace : AGLET
48
Yearned for : ACHED
49
Sch. in Annapolis, Md. : USNA
50
Flabbergast : STUN
51
Operatic heroine : AIDA
52
Westernmost of the Aleutians : ATTU
53
Chills and fever : AGUE
54
Vacuum-cleaner noise : WHIR
55
Kett of comics : ETTA
57
Mrs. Sprat's diet : FAT
58
Mensa members have high ones : IQS

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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