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Frank Geary
Frank Geary

New York Times, Wednesday, August 29, 1979

59-Across : Refrain syllables

Author:
Frank Geary
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 255 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Frank Geary has 27 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,886
Across
1
Arabian port : ADEN
5
Joseph's many-colored garment : COAT
9
Don José's feeling for Carmen : AMOR
13
Cut off : PARE
14
Ending with wash or wear : ABLE
15
Pentateuch : TORAH
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Lamb's pseudonym : ELIA
18
Bag of tricks : REPERTOIRE
20
What S O S signifies : DISTRESS
22
Employee : EARNER
23
Proboscis : NOSE
24
He had an Irish Rose : ABIE
25
Fragments : SHREDS
28
Criterion : STANDARD
32
Respite : PAUSE
33
Realtors' wares : LOTS
34
"___ Tag," Barrie play : DER
35
Sea birds : ERNS
36
In solitude : ALONE
38
___ Scotia : NOVA
39
Silkworm : ERI
40
Brain's offspring : IDEA
41
Antitoxin : SERUM
42
Vacuum tube : DYNATRON
44
Genetic offshoots : CLONES
45
Ouch's cause : PAIN
46
What claques do : CLAP
47
Dome : CUPOLA
50
Augment or intensify : HEIGHTEN
54
Within creative or fanciful limits : IMAGINABLE
56
Auld lang syne : YORE
57
Cop ___: Slang : APLEA
58
Pluvious forecast : RAIN
59
Refrain syllables : TRAS
60
Witnessed : SEEN
61
Sigma Chi, for short : FRAT
62
Congers : EELS
Down
1
Imitated : APED
2
Salvador from Spain : DALI
3
Goddess of discord : ERIS
4
Sometimes this counts : NEATNESS
5
Fondle : CARESS
6
Portly : OBESE
7
Hannibal crossed them : ALPS
8
Curling mark : TEE
9
Achieves : ATTAINS
10
Anchored : MOORED
11
O'Neill protagonist : ORIN
12
Infrequent : RARE
16
"Leave ___ to Heaven": Ben Ames Williams : HER
19
Kickback : REBATE
21
Took a cab : RODE
24
Like ___ of bricks : ATON
25
This has its limits : SPEED
26
Franklin's follower : HARRY
27
Quarrel : RUNIN
28
Former V.I.P. at G.M. : SLOAN
29
Embellish : ADORN
30
Musical performance : REVUE
31
Small quantities : DRAMS
36
Pope: 772-95 : ADRIAN
37
Spinks : LEON
38
Novice : NEOPHYTE
40
Native of Leghorn : ITALIAN
41
Smelter's fused refuse : SLAG
43
Highest point : APOGEE
44
Private eye's customer : CLIENT
46
"As You Like It" girl : CELIA
47
Govt. agency : CIA
48
Decision makers, for short : UMPS
49
Ashen : PALE
50
Flanged piece of metal : HBAR
51
Went like 60 : TORE
52
Of an epoch : ERAL
53
Watery home of a monster? : NESS
55
Comment from Annie's canine : ARF

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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