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Ruth Minary
Ruth Minary

New York Times, Tuesday, November 24, 1992

Author:
Ruth Minary
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { B G J K X Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 27.8
Ruth Minary has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,722
Across
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Smart : CHIC
5
Biblical verb form : DOST
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Exorcist's quarry : DEMON
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Leander's love : HERO
15
Delineate finely : ETCH
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Pass over : ELIDE
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Author Wister : OWEN
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Oxford or pump : SHOE
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" ... ___ a tuffet" : SATON
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Wall word: Daniel 5:25 : MENE
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Environmentalist's concern : IONOSPHERE
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Choose : PREFER
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Outside: Comb. form : ECTO
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Prevaricated : LIED
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Lab equipment : RETORTS
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Flavor : SAPOR
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Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
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Show diversity : VARY
39
"Three little maids from school ___": W. S. Gilbert : AREWE
40
Garfield or Felix : CAT
41
Poe's one-word bird : RAVEN
42
Fortune : FATE
43
Kind of truck : SEMI
44
Upper crust : ELITE
45
Endless : ETERNAL
47
Singer Laine : CLEO
49
Actor Guinness : ALEC
51
Cause's partner : EFFECT
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What 3 is to 9 : SQUAREROOT
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Diet : FARE
61
Polly and Pittypat of fiction : AUNTS
62
Bates or King : ALAN
63
Old Roman road : ITER
64
Willow twig : WITHE
65
Dorothy Gale's dog : TOTO
66
Tax, to the British : CESS
67
Greek colonnades : STOAS
68
Formerly, formerly : ERST
69
Famed Russian-born artist-designer : ERTE
Down
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Munch : CHOMP
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Ax man : HEWER
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Dunne or Castle : IRENE
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Prairie blossom : CONEFLOWER
5
Crave : DESIRE
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He succeeded Galba : OTHO
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Tea cake : SCONE
8
Of government by the clergy : THEOCRATIC
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Tyrant : DESPOT
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Where David slew Goliath : ELAH
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Tiny arachnid : MITE
12
Fragrance : ODOR
13
Hawaiian goose : NENE
22
Editor's "Don't dele" : STET
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Emerald Isle : EIRE
27
Slow down : DECELERATE
29
Clinton's future workroom : OVALOFFICE
30
Sitarist Shankar : RAVI
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Waste allowance : TRET
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"Auld Lang ___" : SYNE
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Far from risky : SAFE
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Smell ___ : ARAT
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Fountain of music : PETE
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Aries : RAM
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Rocky ridge offshore : REEF
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Auction : SALE
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Justinian I's general : NARSES
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"___ your heart be troubled": John 14:1 : LETNOT
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Kind of scheme : COLOR
52
Sprat or Horner : EATER
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Cock's comb : CREST
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Succinct : TERSE
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Adages : SAWS
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Stop trying : QUIT
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"Do ___ others ... " : UNTO
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Baile ___ Cliath (Dublin) : ATHA
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Feed-bag contents : OATS

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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