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Vaughn Keith
Vaughn Keith

New York Times, Saturday, May 16, 1981

Author:
Vaughn Keith
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 27, Avg Word Len: 5.82, Missing: { J X }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 108, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Spans: 6 (2 triple stacks), Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10, Grid flow: 33.3
Vaughn Keith has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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K
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,512
Across
1
An Oscar winner in 1977 : VANESSAREDGRAVE
16
La Guardia was one : ITALIANAMERICAN
17
Milton tragic work : SAMSONAGONISTES
18
Liquid part of fat : OLEINE
19
Ear inflammation : OTITIS
20
Incise : RASE
21
This requires an ans. : QUES
22
Yerkes or Lick, for short : OBS
25
Neither masc. nor fem. : NEUT
27
Scolding : EARFUL
30
One resigned to reverses : DEFEATIST
35
British bishop's headdress : MITRE
36
Player like Mantle, Mays or Musial : ALLSTAR
37
Attained : REACHED
39
Twist, in Taxco : RUECA
40
Sultry spring winds in Egypt : KHAMSEENS
42
Reflexive pronoun : ITSELF
44
Calpurnia's needle : ACUS
45
Book of the Bible: Abbr. : NEH
46
Sea eagle : ERNE
48
Mosel tributary : SAAR
52
An English poet and a U.S. actor : PAYNES
55
Dessert specialty : MOUSSE
57
Famed protégé of Lorenzo the Magnificent : LEONARDODAVINCI
60
Oxygenating of venous blood : ARTERIALIZATION
61
Breakfast offering : WESTERNOMELETTE
Down
1
Part of a casquette : VISOR
2
Chateaubriand creation : ATALA
3
Contents of an onomasticon : NAMES
4
"___ Venner," O. W. Holmes novel : ELSIE
5
Capital of Valais, Switzerland : SION
6
Rational : SANE
7
Literary collection : ANA
8
Certain stews : RAGOUTS
9
Indulge in cabotinage : EMOTE
10
Actress Darcel : DENISE
11
"True ___" : GRIT
12
___ e bisi, Venetian dish : RISI
13
___ Apostles : ACTSOFTHE
14
Cicero's "Alas!" : VAE
15
Nav. officer : ENS
21
Eccentricity : QUIRK
23
End of a Presidential name : BUREN
24
Pungs : SLEDS
25
Pertaining to birth : NATAL
26
Greek letter : ETA
28
Collect : AMASS
29
Translation for 12 Down : RICE
30
His first hit was "Splish Splash" : DARIN
31
Wash out : ELUTE
32
Places catering to licentious tastes : FLESHPOTS
33
Suffix with inchoative verbs : ESCE
34
Vestige : TRACE
38
Nandu's look-alike : EMU
41
"Star Wars" role : HANSOLO
43
Demon wolf of Norse mythology : FENRIR
47
Fortification : REDAN
48
Instrumental composition : SUITE
49
In ___ (peeved) : ASNIT
50
British track : ASCOT
51
Catherine de Médicis was one : REINE
53
Writer Claude ___ : ANET
54
River on The Broads : YARE
55
Labyrinth : MAZE
56
Place for a race : OVAL
57
Scientific principle : LAW
58
Poetic "before" : ERE
59
Unclear : DIM

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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