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Sam Bellotto Jr.
Sam Bellotto Jr.

New York Times, Friday, October 17, 1986

50-Down : Sprightly, in music

Author:
Sam Bellotto Jr.
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { Q V X }, Scrabble score: 304 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 34.1
Sam Bellotto Jr. has 10 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 5 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,492
Across
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Cry hard : BAWL
5
Pear-shaped instrument : LUTE
9
Trimming tool : ADZE
13
"I kiss'd thee ___ kill'd thee": Shak. : EREI
14
Parlor : SALON
15
Exult : CROW
16
Garment for a gumshoe? : FOLLOWSUIT
18
Lévesque, of Quebec : RENE
19
Doesn't abstain : IMBIBES
20
Word with legs or pockets : TROUSER
22
Fife firth : TAY
23
Monumental : EPIC
25
Handouts : ALMS
26
Safety sash for a spaceman? : ASTEROIDBELT
30
P.R. city : PONCE
33
Amphorae : URNS
34
___ es Salaam, Tanzania : DAR
35
Help a thief : ABET
36
Is in need : LACKS
38
Francis, e.g. : MULE
39
Book on board : LOG
40
N.J. city : LODI
41
Material for sleeping bags : KAPOK
42
Evening wear for an entomologist? : YELLOWJACKET
46
She wed Glaucus : IONE
47
Charge : LOAD
48
Ruy Díaz : CID
51
"Sesame Street" resident : BIGBIRD
54
Better : UPGRADE
56
Compass : AREA
57
Four-in-hands for a polyglot? : TONGUETIES
59
What ravers do : RANT
60
Name on "The Front Page" : HECHT
61
Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
62
Beast, in Brest : BETE
63
Statue at one end of Regent St. : EROS
64
Unaided : SOLO
Down
1
Suit : BEFIT
2
Redolence : AROMA
3
Robert Young TV role : WELBY
4
Marlene, in song : LILI
5
Dog star : LASSIE
6
Eskimo blade : ULU
7
Nothing ___ (easy) : TOIT
8
Gets on a Pullman : ENTRAINS
9
To ___ (in complete detail) : ACRUMB
10
In glad rags : DRESSEDUP
11
Twilight or time follower : ZONE
12
Pitcher : EWER
14
Won big : SWEPT
17
Corpulent : OBESE
21
Auto pioneer : OLDS
24
Determining : CRUCIAL
26
Tread the boards : ACT
27
Mork's planet : ORK
28
Composer of "Cigarette Waltz" : LALO
29
Migration : TREK
30
Divided, in heraldry : PALY
31
Hautboy : OBOE
32
Remiss : NEGLIGENT
36
___ boom (attack) : LOWERTHE
37
Dict. entry : ADJ
38
Tatami : MAT
40
Actress Anderson : LONI
41
Small anchor : KEDGE
43
Like a grebe's toes : LOBATE
44
Single bursts of firing : COUGHS
45
Done for : KAPUT
48
Mubarak's capital : CAIRO
49
Utopian : IDEAL
50
Sprightly, in music : DESTO
51
Sharpness; sting : BARB
52
Dies ___ : IRAE
53
One who's no slouch : DOER
55
I-95, etc. : RTES
58
Sgt. or cpl. : NCO

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

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