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Charles Engler
Charles Engler

New York Times, Wednesday, January 23, 1980

Author:
Charles Engler
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 30.6
Charles Engler has 13 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,033
Across
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Fairy-tale creature : ELF
4
Investigate : PROBE
9
Kind of room or table : POOL
13
Anacondas : BOAS
15
Of the ear : AURAL
16
Annul : UNDO
17
Manet portrait of a youth : BOYWITHCHERRIES
20
Base runners, at times : STEALERS
21
Short wooden matches : VESTAS
22
Author Anaïs : NIN
23
His land is now Iran : MEDE
24
Raft wood : BALSA
27
___ Darya, Asian river : AMU
29
___ robbery : ARMED
33
Off Broadway award : OBIE
34
Tilled lands, in Spain : ARADAS
36
Lee ___, heavyweight contender: 1951 : OMA
37
Manet portrait of a female : WOMANWITHPARROT
40
Holiday herald : EVE
41
Egg-rolling day : EASTER
42
Little one: Suffix : ETTE
43
Invigorate : RENEW
45
Poetic contraction : EEN
46
Indy 500 factor : SPEED
47
Sweetsop : ATES
49
U.S.A., French style : EUA
50
Prayer : ORISON
53
Frisky zoo attractions : SEALIONS
58
Jan van Eyck self-portrait, with "A" : MANINAREDTURBAN
60
Anagram for neat : ANTE
61
Roam : RANGE
62
Prefix with soft or sweet : SEMI
63
Repute : ODOR
64
Fragrant compound : ESTER
65
Slangy assent : YEP
Down
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Recedes : EBBS
2
Spoils of war : LOOT
3
Actress Dunaway : FAYE
4
Eucharistic plate : PATEN
5
German industrial district : RUHR
6
Sea monsters : ORCS
7
"___! Humbug!" : BAH
8
French pupil : ELEVE
9
Ship official : PURSER
10
"Step ___!" : ONIT
11
Music halls : ODEA
12
This makes some sore : LOSS
14
Welsh port : SWANSEA
18
Pelvic bones : ILIA
19
___ beet : REDASA
23
Coot : MUDHEN
24
Leafy retreat : BOWER
25
Out of reach : ABOVE
26
Threshold : LIMEN
27
Mounts : ARISES
28
Smelting mixture : MATTE
30
Malory's "Le ___ d'Arthur" : MORTE
31
Ham it up : EMOTE
32
Old hat : DATED
34
Hawaiian milkfish : AWA
35
Mo. of showers : APR
38
Famous Isaac : NEWTON
39
Garage sign : REPAIRS
44
Not so rough : EASIER
46
Pacific archipelago : SULU
48
Finnish lake, to Swedes : ENARE
49
Lotus-___ (dreamer) : EATER
50
Hawaiian thrush : OMAO
51
Strip of shoe leather : RAND
52
"___ each life some rain ... " : INTO
53
Transported : SENT
54
Verge : EDGE
55
"___ thy heart": Emerson : OBEY
56
Dub : NAME
57
Impertinent one : SNIP
59
Ethiopian prince : RAS

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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