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Steele
Steele

New York Times, Wednesday, January 28, 1976

35-Across : As good as ___

Author:
Steele
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.72, Missing: { F H J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 257 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Steele has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,664
Across
1
Still abed : NOTUP
6
Marquand's sleuth : MOTO
10
Look over : SCAN
14
Call forth : EVOKE
15
Admired one : IDOL
16
Palm : NIPA
17
Versifier: Var. : RIMER
18
Dorothy's noble sleuth : LORDPETER
20
Verse form : ODE
21
German area : SAAR
23
Queen : ELLERY
24
State: Abbr. : MINN
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Seed cover : ARIL
26
"The ___ and all its sweets ... " : DAYISGONE
30
Curves : ESSES
34
___ the public : OPENTO
35
As good as ___ : GOLD
37
Resting spot : INN
38
Like many excuses : LAME
39
Vine : LIANA
41
___-over lightly : ONCE
42
Prior to : ERE
43
Eastern queen : RANI
44
Night rider : REVERE
46
Snake or dinner : DANCE
48
First-class : TOPDRAWER
50
Waves, in Spain : OLAS
52
___-de-boeuf : OEIL
53
Container for a beer polka : BARREL
56
Surrounded by : GIRT
57
Dupin's creator : POE
60
Scotland Yard V.I.P. : INSPECTOR
62
Scads : REAMS
64
In ___ (in place) : SITU
65
Flying prefix : AERO
66
Miss Terry : ELLEN
67
Big birds : EMUS
68
Moscow refusal : NYET
69
"One ___" : ALONE
Down
1
Stout sleuth : NERO
2
Roman poet : OVID
3
Volume : TOME
4
Music maker : UKE
5
Stick with it : PERSIST
6
Home of La Scala : MILANO
7
Redolence : ODOR
8
Crag : TOR
9
More timeworn : OLDER
10
Fishline parts : SNELLS
11
Refer to : CITE
12
Mime : APER
13
Not a bit : NARY
19
Carried on : PLIED
22
Luanda's country : ANGOLA
24
Underwater weapon : MINE
25
Long period : AEON
26
Parceled out : DOLED
27
Armadillo : APARA
28
Arabian area : YEMEN
29
Marsh of whodunits : NGAIO
31
Tendon : SINEW
32
French penman's need : ENCRE
33
Insulting look : SNEER
36
Pantry : LARDER
40
Savings-book entries: Abbr. : INTS
41
Like an egg : OVAL
43
Confederate signature : RELEE
45
Part of Ethiopia : ERITREA
47
Whodunit's delicti : CORPUS
49
Christie's late steuth : POIROT
51
Highway to north : ALCAN
53
Alpine wind : BISE
54
Lively, in music: Abbr. : ANIM
55
Between Q and V : RSTU
56
Whodunit fluid : GORE
57
___ Alto : PALO
58
Portent : OMEN
59
Early serf : ESNE
61
Writer Josephine : TEY
63
Wing : ELL

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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