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Peter G. Snow
Peter G. Snow

New York Times, Saturday, July 26, 1986

4-Down : Proverbial "thief"

Author:
Peter G. Snow
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J K V X Z }, Scrabble score: 259 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has both left-right and up-down symmetry.
Peter G. Snow has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,409
Across
1
Amusingly extreme : CAMP
5
Winning hit, in baseball : GAMER
10
Wax : GROW
14
Kanten, e.g. : AGAR
15
Anoint, once : ANELE
16
Viktor ___, Hungarian ballet master : RONA
17
River near Bologna : RENO
18
Petioles : STEMS
19
Myna : APER
20
Acrophobiac's dread : PRECIPITOUSNESS
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Raun : ROE
24
Outran : LED
25
Some trips : ERRANDS
29
Chevrons : STRIPES
33
Popular pastime in Iceland : CHESS
34
Sound of derision : HAH
36
Trifle : FLIRT
37
Ravelings : LINT
38
Stir : ADO
39
A Chaplin : OONA
40
Caper : ANTIC
42
He helped R.M.N. : DDE
43
Lampoon : SQUIB
44
TV's "___ Book Club": 1948 : TEENAGE
46
Mates : SPOUSES
48
Moslem title of respect : AGA
49
Loch ___, Scotland : AWE
50
Logomachist's trait : CONTENTIOUSNESS
59
Merry, to a Basque : ALAI
60
Repairs, in a way : DARNS
61
Hindu's keddah : TRAP
62
"Romola" character : TITO
63
Trade center in India : ERODE
64
Hurdy-gurdy : LIRA
65
Part of a.s.a.p. : SOON
66
Cassin and Dubos : RENES
67
Oenologist's concern : YEAR
Down
1
Goldfish's cousin : CARP
2
Composer of "Happy Days Are Here Again" : AGER
3
Leo's locks : MANE
4
Proverbial "thief" : PROCRASTINATION
5
Breathed laboriously : GASPED
6
Con : ANTI
7
Comply with : MEET
8
Napoli's Castel Sant'___ : ELMO
9
Consequence : RESULT
10
In a bombastic manner : GRANDILOQUENTLY
11
Riata : ROPE
12
Impersonal possessive pronoun : ONES
13
Boer and Crimean : WARS
21
Items studied by R. A. Millikan : IONS
22
Gurth in "Ivanhoe," e.g. : SERF
25
Fame : ECLAT
26
Lorelei's home : RHINE
27
French revenue : RENTE
28
Tint : SHADE
29
Mercury's talaria : SHOES
30
Profane's antithesis : PIOUS
31
Davis of football fame : ERNIE
32
"Guesstimates" : STABS
35
Say more : ADD
41
D. C. Fisher's "The Squirrel-___ : CAGE
43
Gilts : SOWS
45
Important Canadian air base : GANDER
47
Hesitates : PAUSES
50
Hit musical : CATS
51
Medley : OLIO
52
Alliance acronym : NATO
53
Biblical weed : TARE
54
Pressing need : IRON
55
Riviera wave : ONDE
56
Part of HOMES : ERIE
57
Actress Allgood : SARA
58
Dispute : SPAR

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