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Stanley Glass
Stanley Glass

New York Times, Wednesday, March 3, 1993

39-Down : Calls to account

Author:
Stanley Glass
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 29.0
Stanley Glass has 26 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,821
Across
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House or hog preceder : ROAD
5
Celebration : GALA
9
Cato's 1,904 : MCMIV
14
Height: Comb. form : ACRO
15
Seaweed product : AGAR
16
Gladiator's milieu : ARENA
17
Aromatic ointment : NARD
18
One of the tenses : PAST
19
Taradiddlers : LIARS
20
What ill-chosen colors do : CLASH
22
Faulkner novel : THEHAMLET
24
Out of order : HAYWIRE
26
Cartoonist Goldberg : RUBE
27
Horatian creation : ODE
28
___ colada : PINA
29
Give ___ whirl (try) : ITA
32
Hedgehog of Madagascar : TENREC
35
Miserable cycles : RATRACES
37
Part of Q.E.F. : ERAT
38
Beckons a taxi : HAILS
40
Lovely lass : PERI
41
Flat-bottomed harbor boats : LIGHTERS
43
New Zealand natives : MAORIS
45
French article : LES
46
Israeli seaport : ACRE
47
Catchall letters : ETC
48
Singer Paul : ANKA
49
Inadvertent nocturnal activity : SNORING
53
Cat killer : CURIOSITY
57
Tower guiding airmen : PYLON
58
Redolence : AROMA
59
Used up : GONE
61
Flat Middle East bread : PITA
62
Sly fellow : SNEAK
63
Wooden pins : NOGS
64
Stag : HART
65
Knave of Hearts' booty : TARTS
66
In ___ (conforming) : STEP
67
Liquid refreshers : ADES
Down
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Home on the range : RANCH
2
City in Fla. : OCALA
3
Deck out : ARRAY
4
Sinclair Lewis novel : DODSWORTH
5
Mountain pass : GAP
6
Type of type : AGATE
7
Strike violently : LASH
8
Of a main channel : ARTERIAL
9
Coastal region of SW India : MALABAR
10
Arson or larceny : CRIME
11
Kind of ticket : MEAL
12
Concerning : INRE
13
Of great extent : VAST
21
Pelt : HIDE
23
"Tallyho!" criers : HUNTSMEN
25
Looks over the arithmetic : RECHECKS
28
Capture, in Caen : PRISE
29
Baker's aide : ICER
30
Actress Hatcher : TERI
31
Sale condition : ASIS
32
Make known : TELL
33
An Iroquoian : ERIE
34
Inferior race horses : NAGS
36
Group of books in some Bibles : APOCRYPHA
39
Calls to account : ARRAIGNS
42
Certain West Coast evergreens : TANOAKS
44
Above : ATOP
48
Draw a bead on : AIMAT
49
Irish dramatist : SYNGE
50
Greek epic poem : ILIAD
51
___ Dame de Paris : NOTRE
52
Punkies : GNATS
53
Polytype : CAST
54
Ballot box, in Burgos : URNA
55
Former African big-game gun : ROER
56
Whistle sound : TOOT
60
Psychic initials : ESP

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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