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Work the Hardest NYT Crossword Puzzle Below are the grid and the clues for what I call the Hardest NYT puzzle ever. You should try to work it. Note: On some of the older (pre-5) browsers on which I've tested this page, every so often I have to click Reload or Refresh to get the grid to look right. In any case, it prints right. And besides, who cares how the grid looks on the screen, unless you're planning to work it all in your head. (Which reminds me, how can you tell that Dan Quayle has been using the word processor? When the screen is covered with Wite-Out.) From here you can do the following:
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ACROSS | 4 | Leaflet-base appendage | ||||
1 | Benchley novel | 5 | Rosary bead | |||
5 | Harsh | 6 | O.S.S. successor | |||
10 | Levantine coffee cup | 7 | He, in Tarantao | |||
14 | He was: Lat. | 8 | Space | |||
15 | Kepi part | 9 | Sultanate in Borneo | |||
16 | Coloratura Mills | 10 | Buddhist sect | |||
17 | Cause disappointment | 11 | Schoenberg's "Moses und -----" | |||
20 | Vale of -----, near 71 Across | 12 | Lavabo | |||
21 | Hawks' arena | 13 | Trilbies | |||
22 | Insect catcher | 18 | Japanese kombu ingredient | |||
23 | Tyrrhenian Sea island | 19 | Annuli | |||
26 | Elway target | 24 | Oswego tea | |||
28 | Certain estimates | 25 | Direction from Levine | |||
36 | Midianite ruler | 27 | Defunct Russian parliament | |||
37 | Fabulist | 28 | Father of King Hadad: Gen. 36:35 | |||
38 | Silvery fish | 29 | Dispatch boat | |||
39 | Beanie | 30 | Great Wall town | |||
41 | Hills | 31 | A U.N. member: Var. | |||
43 | ----- spumante | 32 | Raisin capital of the world | |||
44 | "----- Like It" | 33 | Remnants, in Roma | |||
46 | Scarf | 34 | Author of "The Augustan Ages" | |||
47 | High fashion | 35 | Bee bite | |||
48 | Gambler's plunge | 40 | Honshu port | |||
52 | Abstract being | 42 | Kind of steward | |||
53 | The Cornish Wonder | 45 | Cubiti | |||
54 | Sharp turn | 49 | Portuguese dollar | |||
57 | A-one | 50 | Rail supports | |||
60 | ----- salts | 51 | Swinger in the 40's | |||
64 | Avenges | 54 | Eastern Roman emperor | |||
68 | English river | 55 | He played Big Daddy | |||
69 | Catfish | 56 | Roman family group | |||
70 | Trammell of baseball | 58 | Poetry of a people | |||
71 | Thessaly peak | 59 | Sights on the Atl. | |||
72 | Georgian Aryan | 61 | One-man shows | |||
73 | Sharp point | 62 | City having a casbah | |||
DOWN | 63 | Ancient wall word | ||||
1 | Rigoletto's forte | 65 | Teachers' org. | |||
2 | Prada offering | 66 | Have, in Haddington | |||
3 | Cordial | 67 | N.Y.C. time zone | |||
© 1987 New York Times |
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