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Eileen Lexau
Eileen Lexau

New York Times, Thursday, November 6, 1986

Author:
Eileen Lexau
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 44.9
Eileen Lexau has 17 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 10 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,512
Across
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Roman clan : GENS
5
Tot : DRAM
9
Turns : SPINS
14
___ of all right : ABIT
15
Bulwer-Lytton heroine : IONE
16
Washington sound : PUGET
17
TV offering : NOVA
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"___ Along, Silvery Moon," 1937 song : SAIL
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Banks or Ford : ERNIE
20
Melancholy : ELEGIAC
22
Alarm bells : TOCSINS
24
Smoked fish dish : FINNANHADDIE
26
Ten-pct. person : AGT
27
Chair a panel discussion : MODERATE
31
Zest : GUSTO
34
Cries lustily : BAWLS
35
In what manner : HOW
36
___ Andersson, Swedish miler : ARNE
37
Bright : SUNNY
38
Poet Allen : TATE
39
"Norma ___" : RAE
40
Martina's court rival : CHRIS
41
Shaded retreat : ARBOR
42
A size of paper : ELEPHANT
44
"Fables in Slang" author : ADE
45
A-O.K. : FINEANDDANDY
50
Survived, with "by" : SCRAPED
53
Forthcoming : INSTORE
54
Water birds : LOONS
55
Bone: Comb. form : OSTE
57
Heron relation : IBIS
58
Certain Arab : OMANI
59
Spiny Eurasian shrub : ULEX
60
Western Samoan coin : SENE
61
Half a spa's name : BADEN
62
Hill on which early Irish kings lived : TARA
63
Fraternal order : ELKS
Down
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Thief : GANEF
2
Princesa de ___, mistress of Philip II : EBOLI
3
"Separate Tables" Oscar winner : NIVEN
4
Live a dull life : STAGNATE
5
Soi-___ (self-styled) : DISANT
6
Producer Hal : ROACH
7
Cuckoo : ANI
8
Processes for saving scrap metal : MELTDOWNS
9
Biological group : SPECIES
10
Cruise personage : PURSER
11
Fire: Comb. form : IGNI
12
No, in Stuttgart : NEIN
13
Fr. holy women : STES
21
Shakespearean villain : IAGO
23
In a strange way : ODDLY
25
Poisonous mushroom : AMANITA
28
Melville captain : AHAB
29
Dorothy's dog in the Oz books : TOTO
30
Jar : EWER
31
___ du Nord : GARE
32
Russian river : URAL
33
Snick and ___ : SNEE
34
Exhausted : BURNEDOUT
37
Classic western : SHANE
38
Scholarly work : TREATISE
40
Contributes : CHIPSIN
41
Increases : ADDS
43
Bowl, in Bonn : PFANNE
44
Anatomical appendages : ADNEXA
46
Saltpeter : NITER
47
Prize name since 1901 : NOBEL
48
Wassail : DRINK
49
Affirmatives : YESES
50
Slovenly one : SLOB
51
Robin Cook novel : COMA
52
Artery : ROAD
56
Historian Marshall : SLA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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