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Eileen Lexau
Eileen Lexau

New York Times, Friday, September 7, 1990

53-Down : Cater-cousin

Author:
Eileen Lexau
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 320 (avg 1.75)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Eileen Lexau has 17 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 10 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,913
Across
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Retired : ABED
5
Civil wrong : TORT
9
Playlet : SKIT
13
Group of turtles : BALE
14
" ... with him is beauty ___": Shak. : SLAIN
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Hawaiian city : HILO
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Divine vocation : CALL
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Form of Japanese poetry : HAIKU
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Over again : ANEW
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Annie's exclamation : LEAPINLIZARDS
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City's political division : WARD
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Kind of code : ZIP
25
Bon or tableau follower : VIVANT
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Dark lantern : BULLSEYE
33
Scents : ODORS
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Le Moko et al. : PEPES
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Mazel ___! : TOV
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Decorated tinware : TOLE
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Obtest : PLEAD
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A vegetable, for short : CUKE
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Tolkien creature : ENT
40
Blunders : FLUBS
41
Neatness : ORDER
42
Ship section : STEERAGE
44
Pitches : SPIELS
45
Hawaiian wreath : LEI
46
Partner of now : THEN
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Disney character : JIMINYCRICKET
53
Dark red : PUCE
54
One who sniggles : EELER
55
Romp : LARK
57
" ... ___ vincit omnia": Chaucer : AMOR
58
Move furtively : SLINK
59
Bacchanal cry : EVOE
60
R.N.'s helpers : LPNS
61
Silicles : PODS
62
Gainsay : DENY
Down
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Network for Peter Jennings : ABC
2
Idol for Jezebel : BAAL
3
French periodical : ELLE
4
Red grape grown for table use : DELAWARE
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Informal attire : TSHIRT
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A portrayer of Charlie Chan : OLAND
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Scold : RAIL
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Kon-___, Heyerdahl's boat : TIKI
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Opposite of flats : SHARPS
10
Sort : KIND
11
French islands : ILES
12
Pull along : TOW
15
Pushed with the nose : NUZZLED
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Reviews unfavorably : PANS
22
Is under the weather : AILS
25
Casts a ballot : VOTES
26
"___ Care," 1905 song : IDONT
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___-face (reversal) : VOLTE
28
The bathysphere man : BEEBE
29
Asian evergreen : UPAS
30
Musical study : ETUDE
31
Rube : YOKEL
32
He threw to Chance : EVERS
34
Drain stopper : PLUG
37
Des ___, Ill. river : PLAINES
38
Corrugated : CRINKLED
40
Liberated, in Berlin : FREI
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Oil cartel : OPEC
43
"___ Tune," 1941 song : ELMERS
44
Malingers : SHIRKS
46
Tendency : TREND
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Move, in checkers : JUMP
48
Byzantine holy picture : ICON
49
Kennel sound : YELP
50
Award for a TV commercial : CLIO
51
Roof overhang : EAVE
52
Disney movie: 1982 : TRON
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Cater-cousin : PAL
56
One of 88 for Van Cliburn : KEY

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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