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Kevin Boyle
Kevin Boyle

New York Times, Saturday, December 21, 1991

Author:
Kevin Boyle
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 98, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9, Grid flow: 12.0
Kevin Boyle has 32 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,383
Across
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Needs : DESIDERATA
11
Free of charge : COMP
15
Device supplying current to a battery : ELIMINATOR
16
Navigation system : OBOE
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Sudden turn of events : PERIPETEIA
18
Swear : AVOW
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Calcars : OVENS
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White, in Rx's : ALB
21
Tupik : TENT
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Bushman : SAN
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Khayyám : OMAR
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Tony winner for "Tru" : MORSE
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"___ to laugh": Pinero : ITIS
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Largest of seven : ASIA
31
Chasing : AFTER
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Skilled artist, for short : TECH
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In ___ (really) : ESSE
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Shoe forms : LASTS
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Fainéant : IDLE
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Clamor : ROAR
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Spiteful gossip : TABBY
42
Emulate Clotho : SPIN
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Reformer Lucretia : MOTT
48
Island off Venezuela : ARUBA
49
One of the Alosa : SHAD
50
Litigious person : SUER
51
Missile installations : SILOS
52
Actor Vidov : OLEG
54
"The Waste Land" poet's inits. : TSE
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Persuade : SELL
56
Featherweight Attell : ABE
58
Jamaican cult : RASTA
60
"Let ___," Beatles hit : ITBE
61
Like a one-note performance : MONOTONOUS
64
French political unit : ETAT
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Patriot Warner : SETH
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The six days of the Creation : HEXAEMERON
Down
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Alluvium : DEPOSIT
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Put in high spirits : ELEVATE
3
Alluring : SIRENIC
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"___ the Mood for Love" : IMIN
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Admiral of the Red : DIPSO
6
Compass pt. : ENE
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Squeal : RAT
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"For ___ an intellectual thing": Blake : ATEARIS
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A Churchill offering : TOIL
10
Swift steed : ARAB
11
Knight's tabard : COATOFARMS
12
Shows another surface : OBVERTS
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Lunar phenomenon : MOONSET
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Certain alloys : PEWTERS
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Ronan's son in Irish myths : MAEL
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Size up : ASSESS
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___ fide (not genuine) : MALA
28
Pet phrase : SHIBBOLETH
30
Visionary : AERIAL
36
Permian Period, in Europe : DYAS
38
Billow, in Breton : ONDE
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Small drinks in Scottish pubs : TASSIES
40
Short melody : ARIETTE
41
Nighthawk : BULLBAT
43
Cardinals' home : PHOENIX
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Fly higher : OUTSOAR
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Ancient Roman military shelter : TESTUDO
47
Dreyfus trial subject : TREASON
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He has a stable job : GROOM
56
Nursemaid, in the Far East : AMAH
57
Lung, in León : BOFE
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First queen of Great Britain : ANNE
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Sorrel of the Andes : OCA
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Yoke : TIE

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

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