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Fred Toole
Fred Toole

New York Times, Monday, October 23, 1989

39-Down : "You said a ___!"

Author:
Fred Toole
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 21.6 Grid has duplicate clues.
Fred Toole has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,594
Across
1
Corrida cheers : OLES
5
Regarding manner or form : MODAL
10
Luxurious : POSH
14
Corrida animal : TORO
15
Get up : ARISE
16
What "video" means : ISEE
17
Lop off : TRIM
18
S.A. lasso : REATA
19
Arise from : STEM
20
23
___ the line (conformed) : TOED
24
Spoofing session : ROAST
25
Unadorned : PLAIN
28
Fiend : DEMON
31
Injure : HARM
32
Puccini products : OPERAS
34
Life story, for short : BIO
37
40
N.F.L. six-pointers : TDS
41
Snack-bar drink : MALTED
42
Chaplin's widow : OONA
43
Desert delights : OASES
44
Mortal : HUMAN
45
Prompter's activity : CUING
48
Purse the lips : POUT
50
Superficial treatment : ONCEOVERLIGHTLY
57
Pompey's 53 : LIII
58
Perfect model : IDEAL
59
Pâté de ___ gras : FOIE
60
Solar disc : ATEN
61
Londoner's small change : PENCE
62
Forearm bone : ULNA
63
Antitoxins : SERA
64
Curl the lip : SNEER
65
Aug. 1 babies, e.g. : LEOS
Down
1
___ von Bismarck : OTTO
2
Forsaken : LORN
3
___ the Red : ERIC
4
In the indefinite future : SOMETIME
5
French river : MARNE
6
Mountain nymph : OREAD
7
Clock face : DIAL
8
Italian wine center : ASTI
9
Book part : LEAF
10
Detroit N.B.A. player : PISTON
11
Ancient port of Rome : OSTIA
12
Appears : SEEMS
13
City in Calif. : HEMET
21
Charged particle : ION
22
Notched : EROSE
25
Unit of illumination : PHOT
26
Debark : LAND
27
Circle segments : ARCS
28
I.o.u.'s : DEBTS
29
___ Stanley Gardner : ERLE
30
Tennyson poem : MAUD
32
Cape Horn natives : ONAS
33
Wan : PALE
34
Cannon sound : BOOM
35
Hebrides isle : IONA
36
___ even keel : ONAN
38
Adult insect : IMAGO
39
"You said a ___!" : MOUTHFUL
43
___ million (a rarity) : ONEINA
44
Embrace : HUG
45
Soft drinks : COLAS
46
Wed : UNITE
47
More frigid : ICIER
48
"Peyton ___" : PLACE
49
Edmonton N.H.L. player : OILER
51
Bigwigs : VIPS
52
Adam's abode : EDEN
53
Painter Magritte : RENE
54
Enameled ware : TOLE
55
Typesetting machine, for short : LINO
56
Affirmative votes : YEAS

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

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