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Daniel Girardi
Daniel Girardi

New York Times, Friday, December 14, 1984

1-Down : Gain, in 2 Down

Author:
Daniel Girardi
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.28, Missing: { F H J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 257 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 2, XRef: 3, Grid flow: 33.6 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Daniel Girardi has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,820
Across
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Betake oneself : REPAIR
7
Jeweler's paste : STRASS
13
Not like the Alamo : TENABLE
14
Vilify; betray : TRADUCE
16
Toy-shop purchase : RAGDOLL
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Was remiss, in a way : RENEGED
18
In toto : ALL
19
Oriental staple : SEAWEED
21
Bee: Comb. form : API
22
Road-to-India explorer : DIAS
24
Sobrino's relative : TIA
25
Something not to be out of : SORTS
27
Thrall's relative : ESNE
28
Founder : SINK
29
Florida's ___ Beach : VERO
30
Calmant : SEDATIVE
32
Part of the Kalmar Union: 1397 : SWEDEN
34
Don Juan's pitch : LINE
35
Copycat : APER
36
Lying on one's back : SUPINE
39
Went with the flow : STREAMED
43
A Guthrie : ARLO
44
Pathos : PITY
45
Singer Tennille : TONI
46
Take ___ (bother) : PAINS
48
Plains Indian : OTO
49
Wagnerian goddess : ERDA
50
Munson of films : ONA
51
Fizzled, with "out" : PETERED
55
Press for payment : DUN
56
Source of Eve's creation : RIBCAGE
58
Falls for a married woman : NIAGARA
60
Storied Eygptian sultan : SALADIN
61
Royal furs : ERMINES
62
Most recent : NEWEST
63
Brewers' buys : YEASTS
Down
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Gain, in 2 Down : REALISE
2
Rupert Brooke's home : ENGLAND
3
Tablet : PAD
4
Cameroons group : ABOS
5
Latin pronoun : ILLE
6
Cognatus : RELATIVE
7
Go fast : STREAK
8
Part of a motte : TREE
9
Parts of shoe soles : RANDS
10
Lemon's tail : ADE
11
Like some placebos : SUGARED
12
Symbol of sovereignty in 2 Down : SCEPTRE
13
Sports transactions : TRADES
15
"Wizard" born in Milan : EDISON
20
Kind of restaurant list : WINE
23
Zoo attraction : SEALION
26
Gluttonized : OVERATE
28
Trig term : SINE
31
Can, in 2 Down : TIN
32
Nimble : SPRY
33
Like Willie Keeler : WEE
35
Bar man : ATTORNEY
36
Flavors : SAPORS
37
He's out of this world : URANIAN
38
Fictile : PLIABLE
39
Developer's concern : SITE
40
Scathing : MORDANT
41
Puts up with : ENDURES
42
Rigg and Ross : DIANAS
44
Mighty : POTENT
47
Fictional sleuth : SPADE
52
Shield : EGIS
53
Gael's land : EIRE
54
Lady of Spain : DAMA
57
Corvine cry : CAW
59
Dogfaces : GIS

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