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Avery
Avery

New York Times, Tuesday, January 1, 1985

36-Down : Actor Jannings

Author:
Avery
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 27.8
Avery has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,838
Across
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Kind of cat : TOM
4
Item on a guitar : FRET
8
Eaten away : EROSE
13
Gemstone : OPAL
15
Città Eterna : ROMA
16
Boundary : LIMIT
17
Marcello's wish on Jan. 1 : FELICECAPODANNO
20
Designed : FRAMED
21
Slangy refusal : NIX
22
Attachment on property : LIEN
23
Tall tales : YARNS
24
Grangers' measures : ACRES
26
Teamster's rig : SEMI
28
Approached : NEARED
33
Lily's relative : ALOE
37
Tears : RIPS
39
Montélimar's river : RHONE
40
Spectacle in Philadelphia on Jan. 1 : MUMMERSANDBANDS
43
Walking ___ (ecstatic) : ONAIR
44
Guy on a ship : STAY
45
Luxuriate on the beach : BASK
46
Town NNE of Paris : SENLIS
48
Desserts : ICES
50
Mattress-stuffing material : KAPOK
52
Kefauver : ESTES
57
Fleming and Hunter : IANS
61
Martini base : GIN
62
Existent but unrevealed : LATENT
63
"I do ___ ... " (words for Jan. 1) : SWEARANDRESOLVE
66
Dunne from Louisville : IRENE
67
Certain crosses : TAUS
68
Farm implement : PLOW
69
British motorists' needs : TYRES
70
Point on the Isle of Man : AYRE
71
Method: Abbr. : SYS
Down
1
Chewy candy : TOFFY
2
"Ernani," e.g. : OPERA
3
Of the cheekbone : MALAR
4
Lynn of baseball : FRED
5
Sinbad's mount : ROC
6
Jan. 1, 1863 : EMANCIPATIONDAY
7
S.A. beast : TAPIR
8
Olden days : ELD
9
100 dinars : RIAL
10
All: Comb. form : OMNI
11
Trigonometric function : SINE
12
Kind of collar : ETON
14
Describe : LIMN
18
Luck, in Ireland : CESS
19
Some bovids : OXEN
24
Out of order : AMISS
25
One of the Yugoslavs : SERB
27
Fail, humanly : ERR
29
Ishmael's skipper : AHAB
30
Author Jaffe : RONA
31
Purposes : ENDS
32
Stand in an orchestra : DESK
33
Biblical prophet : AMOS
34
Object shaped like a half moon : LUNE
35
Arabia's Gulf of ___ : OMAN
36
Actor Jannings : EMIL
38
Tiffin's cousin : SNACK
41
Actor Rhodes : ERIK
42
Indigo is one : DYE
47
Story of heroism : SAGA
49
Coral and Red : SEAS
51
Niña companion : PINTA
53
Street sign : STOP
54
Narrates : TELLS
55
Government agent : ENVOY
56
Olla-podrida, etc. : STEWS
57
"___ a bird?" : ISIT
58
Crooked : AWRY
59
Poetic contraction : NEER
60
Sound : SANE
62
___-majesté : LESE
64
Thing, in law : RES
65
Capek drama : RUR

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

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