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Gloria Evans
Gloria Evans

New York Times, Friday, October 23, 1987

Author:
Gloria Evans
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { F J X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 35.2
Gloria Evans has 10 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,863
Across
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Fish or cut this : BAIT
5
Dada, for one : CULT
9
Like a trireme : OARED
14
"___ take arms ... ": Hamlet : ORTO
15
Kind of rug : AREA
16
Indy 500 winner: 1983 : SNEVA
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HEADLESS HORSEMAN : QUESTRIAN
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Intelligence man : BINET
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Main or mill follower : STREAM
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Hoarfrost : RIME
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Stat. for Roger McDowell : ERA
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Site of ancient Olympic games : ELIS
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Glacial mass : SERAC
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Made melancholy : SADDENED
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Harry Warren song: 1942 : ATLAST
35
Stout : ALE
36
Approached : NEARED
38
Autocrat : TSAR
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Blow one's own horn : BOAST
41
Sesame : TIL
42
"Semper fidelis," e.g. : MOTTO
43
Swat was his sultanate : RUTH
44
Beginner : NOVICE
46
Bud's comedy partner : LOU
47
Stick fast : ADHERE
49
Greedy : ESURIENT
51
W.W. II letters : VMAIL
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Desert regions : ERGS
54
Turkish title : AGA
56
Blockhead : CLOD
58
Start again : REOPEN
62
Many: Comb. form : MULTI
64
BOUNDLESS ENERGY : SOLARPOWE
66
Mercer colleague : ARLEN
67
One way to break : EVEN
68
Cartel est. in 1960 : OPEC
69
"Blue ___ Shoes," 1956 song : SUEDE
70
Caesura : REST
71
Secretary of a sort : DESK
Down
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Single offs.' digs : BOQS
2
In ___ (mired in routine) : ARUT
3
Roman way : ITER
4
Go ___ (deteriorate) : TOSEED
5
Red color : CARMINE
6
Altdorf's canton : URI
7
Albany's father-in-law : LEAR
8
Ancient city of Egypt : TANIS
9
A Sitwell : OSBERT
10
Black cuckoo : ANI
11
TOPLESS DANCER : RENECASTLE
12
At any time : EVER
13
Kind of bank : DATA
18
Special ability : TALENT
22
Western lake : MEAD
25
Former treaty org. : SEATO
27
Voice range : ALTO
28
Native-born Israeli : SABRA
29
Vocally : ALOUD
30
BOTTOMLESS PIT : DEATHVALLE
31
Shot for Tway : DRIVE
33
Squelched : SATON
34
Dolly Varden, e.g. : TROUT
37
Beethoven's "Für ___" : ELISE
40
Noah's eldest : SHEM
42
Corporate union : MERGER
44
Diamond of rock : NEIL
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Fruit for jelly : CURRANT
48
"Phèdre" dramatist : RACINE
50
Crustacean with seven pairs of legs : ISOPOD
52
Weeper, proverbially : LOSER
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Second of a Latin trio : AMAS
55
Preceptor : GURU
57
Conciliatory one : DOVE
59
"Windsor Forest " poet : POPE
60
Flock group : EWES
61
Turtle chaser : NECK
63
Koppel or Turner : TED
65
Gallic article : LES

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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