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Stanley Newman
New York Times, Saturday, May 5, 1984
48-Down : Watch
Author:
Stanley Newman
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.37, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 308 (avg 1.64)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Stanley Newman has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 23 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 F | 2 A | 3 T | 4 H | 5 E | 6 N | 7 N | 8 A | 9 V | 10 E | 11 L | ||||
12 S | H | O | E | L | A | 13 C | 14 E | 15 O | D | E | L | E | 16 T |
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17 T | E | M | P | O | R | A | L | 18 T | A | N | K | E | R |
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19 O | A | F | 20 D | E | M | A | 21 G | O | G | U | E | R | Y |
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22 P | R | O | 23 A | 24 S | U | T | U | R | E | S | ||||
25 S | T | O | C | 26 K | 27 S | E | M | I | 28 B | 29 R | 30 A |
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31 L | E | N | 32 D | 33 P | E | 34 A | 35 S | O | U | P |
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36 R | 37 H | E | T | O | R | 38 S | 39 S | T | R | E | W | E | R |
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40 A | C | R | O | B | A | T | 41 Y | A | R | D | ||||
42 W | H | Y | 43 F | O | 44 W | 45 L | 46 M | U | L | 47 E | 48 S |
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49 R | 50 E | T | I | R | E | 51 D | 52 M | E | R | E |
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53 H | 54 A | 55 R | U | M | S | C | A | R | U | 56 M | 57 R | A | N |
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58 A | N | A | D | E | M | 59 C | O | M | E | 60 D | I | S | T |
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61 T | E | R | E | S | A | 62 K | I | B | I | T | Z | E | R |
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63 S | A | R | A | N | 64 O | R | N | E | R | Y |
© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,597
Across
1
End of a counting rhyme : FATHEN
7
Kind of orange : NAVEL
12
Place for an aglet : SHOELACE
15
Mini-poem : ODELET
17
Secular or civil : TEMPORAL
18
Galveston sight : TANKER
19
Lout : OAF
20
Rabble-rouser's forte : DEMAGOGUERY
22
Malayan transportation : PROA
24
Sews up : SUTURES
25
Inventory : STOCK
27
Rig, for short : SEMI
28
Lingerie item : BRA
31
Furnish : LEND
33
Fog : PEASOUP
36
Speech teachers : RHETORS
39
Broadcaster : STREWER
40
Tumbler : ACROBAT
41
Gridiron measure : YARD
42
How come? : WHY
43
Fifth-day creation : FOWL
46
Cotton-spinning machines : MULES
49
In seclusion : RETIRED
52
Just : MERE
53
Reckless : HARUMSCARUM
57
Fled : RAN
58
Garland for a poet laureate : ANADEM
59
Neil Simon, e.g. : COMEDIST
61
Brewer from Toledo : TERESA
62
Poker pest : KIBITZER
63
Useful plastic : SARAN
64
Cantankerous : ORNERY
Down
1
Settings for Steichen : FSTOPS
2
What the Tin Man wanted : AHEART
3
Nonsense : TOMFOOLERY
4
Drill sergeant's word : HEP
5
Hypothetical force : ELOD
6
Breathing apparatus : NARES
7
Unwanted attention : NOTORIETY
8
Saw : ADAGE
9
Mother of Aeneas : VENUS
10
Sommer : ELKE
11
Glance from Groucho : LEER
13
Snub-nosed: Fr. : CAMUS
14
Buoy : ELATE
16
Go for it : TRY
21
Sidney Smith's creations : GUMPS
23
Vinegary: Comb. form : ACETO
26
Dresser need : KNOB
28
Expurgate : BOWDLERIZE
29
Actress McClanahan : RUE
30
The "cruellest" mo. : APR
32
Blueprint person : DRAFTSMAN
34
Khachaturian : ARAM
35
Whey : SERUM
36
Untrained : RAW
37
Presidential monogram : HCH
38
Firmly restrained : STOIC
44
Torture : WRACK
45
Poet-political activist Jones : LEROI
47
Something to clap at school : ERASER
48
Watch : SENTRY
49
Not so polite : RUDER
50
Ancient city in Syria : EMESA
51
Disneyland denizen : DUMBO
53
Castor or tile : HAT
54
"___ generally shammin'... ": Kipling : ANES
55
"Ta-___-Boom-De-Ré" : RARA
56
Golda : MEIR
60
Keep after sch. : DTN
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 6 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.