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Mel Taub
Mel Taub

New York Times, Wednesday, September 8, 1993

Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Mel Taub
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 294 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has duplicate clues.
Mel Taub has 44 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 10 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 16,010
Across
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Fool : NINNY
6
G.I. truant : AWOL
10
Some citrus drinks : ADES
14
Mrs. Ralph Kramden : ALICE
15
"___ smile be your umbrella..." : LETA
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Ballerina's mini : TUTU
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Nut pine : PINON
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Fool : BLOCKHEAD
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Kickapoo's kin : SAC
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___ off (angry) : TEED
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Mournful tolls : KNELLS
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Pope's capelike vestment : ORALE
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Zeus, as seen by Leda : SWAN
27
Lax in duty : REMISS
29
Pivoted, in a way : SWIVELED
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Elec. units : AMPS
34
Navigate the air : AVIATE
36
Eggs, to Ovid : OVA
37
Screwballs : KOOKS
39
White-tailed eagle : ERN
40
Seal : SIGIL
42
D.D.E.'s 1940's "show place" : ETO
43
Ancient monastic Palestinian : ESSENE
46
Eye with a purpose : OGLE
47
Split : SEPARATE
49
TV's Dillon : ARNESS
51
Cocktail-party fare : DIPS
52
Official proclaimer : CRIER
53
Challenging reply to 58 Down : OHYEAH
56
Group with no strings attached : BAND
57
With-it, 1940's style : HEP
60
Fool : SIMPLETON
62
Reside : DWELL
64
Group for 43 Across : SECT
65
Leather piercers : AWLS
66
Charter : LEASE
67
Most prosecutors: Abbr. : ADAS
68
Fool : DOLT
69
Over : ENDED
Down
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Takes 40 winks : NAPS
2
Pelvic bones : ILIA
3
Fool : NINCOMPOOP
4
Sgt. maj., e.g. : NCO
5
Busybodies : YENTAS
6
"The Sandbox" playwright : ALBEE
7
Tuesday ___ : WELD
8
Siouan of Neb. : OTO
9
Fool : LACKWIT
10
Greek Minerva : ATHENE
11
In which seconds come first : DUEL
12
Collective abbr. : ETAL
13
What comes out in the wash : SUDS
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Tricksters : KNAVES
22
Literary lioness : ELSA
25
What insurers insure against : RISK
26
Proust character : SWANN
27
Libertines : RAKES
28
Ham Hamlet : EMOTE
29
Ending for yes or no : SIREE
30
Fool : LOGGERHEAD
31
Ills : EVILS
32
Valleys : DALES
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Endows with power : VESTS
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Work in installments : SERIAL
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"The Last Days of Pompeii" heroine : IONE
44
Fool : SAPHEAD
45
Merit : EARN
48
Experts : ADEPTS
50
"What has four wheels and flies?" : RIDDLE
52
"___ thou by searching find out God?": Job : CANST
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Pelion's companion : OSSA
54
Moved quickly : HIED
55
Familiar temp. residence : YMCA
56
Flax or cotton pod : BOLL
58
Or ___ (words of a threat) : ELSE
59
Argued a case : PLED
61
Jefferson bill : TWO
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Cyst of a kind : WEN

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 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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