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Clavan
Clavan

New York Times, Friday, September 16, 1983

38-Across : Backslide

Author:
Clavan
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F J Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Clavan has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,365
Across
1
Hines or Siepi : BASS
5
Stephen Foster's "Louisiana ___" : BELLE
10
Tale of derring-do : SAGA
14
Rod's partner : REEL
15
Postulate : AXIOM
16
___ IV, first Russian czar : IVAN
17
Radius squared times pi : AREA
18
"CHiPs" actress Oakes : RANDI
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Orient : EAST
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"Ancient Evenings" author : NORMANMAILER
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Overshoot : MISS
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River celebrated by Wordsworth : YARROW
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Song stylist Mercer : MABEL
31
Evaluate : APPRAISE
33
Like Pegasus : ALAR
34
After-shave ___ : LOTION
36
Like a wee bairn : SMA
37
Wing of a building : ELL
38
Backslide : REGRESS
39
Heyerdahl's ___-Tiki : KON
40
Greek letters : NUS
41
Finally : ATLAST
42
___-majesté : LESE
43
Nature lovers of a sort : ADAMITES
45
Used the children's pool : WADED
46
Cessation : DEMISE
47
"___ for All Seasons" : AMAN
49
"Billy Budd" actor : TERENCESTAMP
55
Landed : ALIT
58
A New Zealander : MAORI
59
Prefix with distant or lateral : EQUI
60
Take on cargo : LADE
61
Daisylike flower : ASTER
62
Corrode : RUST
63
This may merit interest : LOAN
64
Requires : NEEDS
65
Humorist-poet born in Rye, N.Y. : NASH
Down
1
Seed husk : BRAN
2
Atmosphere: Prefix : AERO
3
Prophet : SEER
4
Lockup : SLAMMER
5
Country shelters : BARNS
6
Midterms or finals : EXAMS
7
Director Wertmuller : LINA
8
City near Stockton, Calif. : LODI
9
Etiquette arbiter : EMILYPOST
10
"High ___," 1941 movie : SIERRA
11
A Gardner : AVA
12
Type of station : GAS
13
Hill builder : ANT
21
Have the flu : AIL
22
Makes one's salt : EARNS
25
Hazarded : RISKED
26
Absorb fluid : OSMOSE
27
Withdrawn gradally : WEANED
28
Bacchante : MAENAD
29
Refer (to) : ALLUDE
30
Perkins's stalker in "Psycho" : BALSAM
31
At the back, in Taxco : ATRAS
32
Pastries : PIES
34
David ___, late-show host : LETTERMAN
35
Eye with a sigh : OGLE
38
Up the stakes : RAISE
42
Light for Diogenes : LANTERN
44
Hand warmer : MITTEN
45
Existed : WAS
47
Possessing land : ACRED
48
Former First Family in Israel : MEIRS
50
Alleviate : EASE
51
Memo : NOTE
52
Blue-green : AQUA
53
Rumple : MUSS
54
Essence : PITH
55
___ of a piece : ALL
56
"The Seven Faces of Dr. ___" : LAO
57
___ Cox of blues fame : IDA

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