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Kevin Boyle
Kevin Boyle

New York Times, Saturday, November 30, 1991

Author:
Kevin Boyle
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 25, Avg Word Len: 5.71, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 96, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 14, Grid flow: 52.6
Kevin Boyle has 32 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,362
Across
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Began again : RENEWED
8
Helices : SPIRALS
15
Putto : AMORINO
16
Twin giants slain by Apollo and Artemis : ALOADAE
17
Social satire : COMEDYOFMANNERS
19
Form of life in a U.F.O. : ETI
20
Tug's hawser : TOWLINE
21
Styron hero : NAT
22
Sure thing : CINCH
24
Give the heave-ho : OUST
25
Wizened : SERE
26
A sixth-century Dacia settler : AVAR
27
He sank with the Scharnhorst : SPEE
28
"Teach us ___ still": T. S. Eliot : TOSIT
29
Struggle against : RELUCT
31
Vegetarians' goodies : SNOWPEAS
33
Schlepper : DRAG
35
Esau's home : SEIR
36
"___ come home ... ": Thompson : SPRINGIS
40
Incense spice: Ex. 30:34 : STACTE
44
Waste allowances : TRETS
45
Subject of a "Manon" aria : REVE
47
Negative conjunctions : NORS
48
No, in Oahu : AOLE
49
Unfurnished : BARE
50
Sources of distress : SORES
51
Brother : FRA
52
Medieval helmet : BASINET
54
Ovine outburst : BAA
55
Aeschylus : FATHEROFTRAGEDY
58
Like Rome : ETERNAL
59
Qualify : ENTITLE
60
Searches for once more : RESEEKS
61
Considered questionable : DOUBTED
Down
1
Speedway sight : RACECAR
2
Of feelings : EMOTIVE
3
So-called : NOMINAL
4
Afore : ERE
5
Extent from side to side : WIDTH
6
Greek war goddess : ENYO
7
Style of group singing : DOOWOP
8
Three-stringed instruments : SAMISENS
9
Spy : PLANT
10
Actress Skye : IONE
11
Aegir's wife : RAN
12
Certain Yemeni residents : ADENESE
13
Roman shrines for household spirits : LARARIA
14
Sonnet parts : SESTETS
18
Windways : FLUES
23
Rawness, in Reims : CRUDITE
25
Kathleen Battle, e.g. : SOPRANO
27
Companionless : STAG
28
Ridicule : TWIT
30
Derricks: Abbr. : CRNS
32
Platinum wire loop : OESE
34
Jerusalem artichokes : GIRASOLS
36
Team member : STAFFER
37
Distribute in a balanced way : PRORATE
38
Interacts realistically : RELATES
39
Sans ___ (type style) : SERIF
41
Gentleman Jim of boxing : CORBETT
42
Bus platform : TREADLE
43
Took a stab at : ESSAYED
46
Gave expression to : VENTED
49
A victor over the Canaanites : BARAK
50
In ___ quo (as is) : STATU
52
Part of N.B. : BENE
53
Hungarian pianist Balogh : ERNO
56
Charlemagne's dom. : HRE
57
Male cat : GIB

Answer summary:
11 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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