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Kevin Boyle
Kevin Boyle

New York Times, Saturday, November 23, 1991

Author:
Kevin Boyle
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { B J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 301 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 94, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 26.4
Kevin Boyle has 32 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,355
Across
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Moonlighter's second job : PARERGON
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Ancient Roman garments : PALLAE
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Shed : EXUVIATE
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"___ Eleven," Sinatra film : OCEANS
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This makes one forget sorrow : NEPENTHE
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Pistols or coins : PIECES
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In the preceding mo. : ULT
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Legal paper : DEED
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Running: Comb. form : DROME
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Heart of the matter : CRUX
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Has the willies : DREADS
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___ compos mentis : NON
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Eunomia, Dike and Eirene : HORAE
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Spotted cube : DIE
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Dandy's partner : FINE
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Paradisiacal : EDENIC
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Spoils : DEFACES
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Mother of Miletus : ARIA
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Australian bird : EMEU
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Devices for inducing rain : SEEDERS
42
Persian dulcimer : SANTIR
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Nobelist for Peace: 1984 : TUTU
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Ymir's Audhumia, for one : COW
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Sierra Nevada lake : TAHOE
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Violinist Bull : OLE
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Native Hawaiian : KANAKA
54
Wagnerian earth goddess : ERDA
55
Top of Hernando's head : MORRA
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___ ha-Shanah : ROSH
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Bribe : OIL
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Felon's kin : AGNAIL
62
Indian princess : MAHARANI
64
U.S. poet who wrote "I Marry You" : CIARDI
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Hoots like an owl : ULULATES
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Most robust : HALEST
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Fit : PAROXYSM
Down
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Fudgelike candy : PENUCHE
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Co-Nobelist in Medicine: 1970 : AXELROD
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Breach of the peace : RUPTURE
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Mary Orr's "The Wisdom of ___" : EVE
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Tree bark : RIND
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Grounded, at Oxford : GATED
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Not long past : OTHER
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"If I ___ Someone," Beatles hit : NEEDED
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Burst : POP
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Sour substances : ACIDS
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Lascivious look : LEER
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Like a Spartan's speech : LACONIC
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A buttercup : ANEMONE
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Ancient ascetics : ESSENES
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Beauteous place : XANADU
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Confidential helper : AIDE
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Musicologist Taylor : DEEMS
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The Emerald Isle : EIRE
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Treatises on animals : FAUNAE
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About : CIRCA
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Herculean act : FEAT
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" ... unto us ___ is given" : ASON
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Stand : STOMACH
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Expressions of praise : EULOGIA
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"Love is ___," I. Stone best seller : ETERNAL
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Guttural : THROATY
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Antiseptics : IODINES
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Literary style : REALISM
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Prepare to perform : WARMUP
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N African tribal chiefs : KAIDS
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Sluggish marsupial : KOALA
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Assyrian god of war : ASHUR
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Hard to find : RARE
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Nimbus : HALO
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Turned on : LIT
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Stretch, in Scotland : RAX

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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