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Robert Dillman
Robert Dillman

New York Times, Thursday, August 12, 1993

Author:
Robert Dillman
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 38.5
Robert Dillman has 10 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 16 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,983
Across
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Strikes violently : RAMS
5
Vivacity : BRIO
9
Heavenly hunter : ORION
14
"___ Good Men," Rob Reiner film : AFEW
15
Wild talk : RANT
16
Gymnast Comaneci : NADIA
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Medic or legal starter : PARA
18
Time on a ship : EIGHTBELLS
20
Soprano parts : TREBLES
22
Stat for Gooden : ERA
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D.S.T. preceder or follower : EST
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This won't wait : TIDE
25
Bing's rival : RUSS
27
Yearns : ACHES
29
Most sugary : SWEETEST
33
Fugard's "A Lesson From ___" : ALOES
34
Certain medieval tales : LAIS
35
Arab V.I.P. : EMIR
36
The Swedish Nightingale : LIND
37
German magician-astrologer : FAUST
38
Song: Comb. form : MELO
39
Busy as ___ : ABEE
40
Italian princely family : ESTE
41
Antonio's product, for short : STRAD
42
Noncontinuous : DISCRETE
44
Tactics : PLOYS
45
Composer Weill : KURT
46
"Trinity" author : URIS
47
N.F.L. scores : TDS
50
Estonian chess master : NEI
51
Stinging plants : NETTLES
55
Officer on a ship : SECONDMATE
58
Overhang : EAVE
59
Stubborn as ___ : AMULE
60
Cork's locale : ERIN
61
Hwys. : RTES
62
Rodeo contestant : RIDER
63
Puts in reserve : ICES
64
Costner role : NESS
Down
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Engrossed : RAPT
2
On the horizon : AFAR
3
Like a pittance : MERE
4
Order on a ship : SWABTHEDECK
5
Pullulates : BREEDS
6
Muster : RAISE
7
Verb suffix : ING
8
Else : OTHERWISE
9
Where D.H.'s hope to be : ONBASE
10
Actress ___ Dawn Chong : RAE
11
Useless : IDLE
12
Medium for Monet : OILS
13
Tweed twitter : NAST
19
Most veracious : TRUEST
21
Reclines : LIES
26
Distance on a ship : STEMTOSTERN
27
Excuse : ALIBI
28
Pine-forest finds : CONES
29
Recipe direction : SAUTE
30
Type of board or cloth : EMERY
31
Marner of fiction : SILAS
32
Walked along : TROD
33
"When I was ___ ... ": Gilbert : ALAD
34
"The ___ Saw Paris," 1940 song : LASTTIMEI
37
Marked off for plowing, in Peebles : FEERED
41
Buttonhole : SLIT
43
Sleigh part : RUNNER
44
Grooms carefully : PREENS
46
Free : UNTIE
47
Autocrat : TSAR
48
Bruce's spouse : DEMI
49
Missile type : SCUD
52
Advanced : LATE
53
"___ Diary": Twain : EVES
54
Mtg. : SESS
56
Rah, in Madrid : OLE
57
Lamp type : ARC

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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