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Mary S. Snyder
Mary S. Snyder

New York Times, Saturday, October 31, 1987

49-Across : Family of a Japanese statesman

Author:
Mary S. Snyder
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { B J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 22.8
Mary S. Snyder has 21 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,871
Across
1
Kind of test : ACID
5
Boring people : DRAGS
10
"___ Musketeers" : THE3
14
Rail : SORA
15
Make a new chart : REMAP
16
Plummer role : IAGO
17
Early animal conservationist : NOAH
18
" ... get you ___ of horns": Shak. : APAIR
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Level : EVEN
20
Velvet chaser : EEN
21
Kurt Weill work, with "The" : 3PENNYOPERA
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Penned : WRITTEN
25
Egyptian king : SETI
26
Lion's share, usually : MOST
27
Ring-shaped object : RONDEL
31
" ... can make ___" : ATREE
34
Kind of field : AIR
37
Begum's spouse : AGA
38
Hillock : MOUND
39
Hunters' org. : NRA
40
Card in a Yarborough : 3SPOT
42
Sandy's sound : ARF
43
Poet Hughes : TED
44
Moat : FOSSE
45
Examined closely : SIFTED
49
Family of a Japanese statesman : ITOS
51
Scope : AREA
53
Of heat : CALORIC
57
Site that caused fright : 3MILEISLAND
61
Uno : ONE
62
A Young Hickory : POLK
63
Blanch : SCALD
64
Dogboat : SLED
65
Early physician : LUKE
66
Soho candle : TOLLY
67
Form of oinochoe : OLPE
68
Kind of book : YEAR
69
Matches a poker bet : STAYS
70
Ollas : POTS
Down
1
As good ___ : ASNEW
2
Dove, e.g. : COOER
3
Khomeini is one : IRANI
4
Morse-code word : DAH
5
Lets fall carelessly : DRAPES
6
Sorry about that : REPENTANT
7
Galsworthy's "___ of Devon" : AMAN
8
Profits : GAINS
9
More agile : SPRYER
10
Foulard fastener : TIEPIN
11
Own : HAVE
12
Rome of Hungary : EGER
13
___ match (bad omen) : 3ONA
21
Kind of sloth : 3TOED
22
Prefix for scope : OTO
24
Fed. agents : TMEN
28
Dips bait lightly : DAPS
29
Parts of the psyche : EGOS
30
Deceased : LATE
31
Latin I verb : AMAS
32
Convex moldings : TORI
33
Bridge ploy : RUFF
35
Wrath : IRE
36
Thoroughly : RADICALLY
40
Treble : 3FOLD
41
Indifferent : SOSO
46
Loquacious one : TALKER
47
Prior, to Poe : ERE
48
Voltaire and Franklin, e.g. : DEISTS
50
Hume Cronyn's in-laws : TANDYS
52
Neckwear : ASCOT
54
Early Norse chieftain : ROLLO
55
Clumsy : INEPT
56
Conveys : CEDES
57
Having a triple thickness : 3PLY
58
Pout : MOUE
59
Author Chase : ILKA
60
Tra-___ : LALA
64
Bribe : SOP

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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