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Lois Sidway
Lois Sidway

New York Times, Friday, October 3, 1986

63-Across : Change a cryptogram

Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { F Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 24.7
Lois Sidway has 67 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 18 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,478
Across
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Altar's milieu : APSE
5
Director's call : ACTION
11
Agt.'s take : PCT
14
Stuff to the gills : SATE
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Gale Storm role on TV : MARGIE
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Guido's high note : ELA
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Shirley Temple film: 1934 : STANDUPANDCHEER
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Partake of : EAT
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Tropical tree resin : ELEMI
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Jeweler's measure of fineness : KARAT
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Gorgeous creature : STUNNER
25
Mosaic tile : TESSERA
27
A thermoplastic : SARAN
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Rotisserie rod : SPIT
30
Ivan or Alexander : TSAR
31
Popular toy trucks, for short : SEMIS
33
Cry of delight : OOH
34
Curvaceous feminine suffix : ESS
35
Audit a course : SITINON
38
Matter; instance: Fr. : CAS
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Negative prefix : NON
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Latin dance : SAMBA
46
Ubiquitous TV series : MASH
47
Japanese wooden clog : GETA
49
Singing Nellie : MELBA
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Cut into : INCISED
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Developing little by little : GRADUAL
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Throat bane, for short : STREP
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Atka native : ALEUT
58
Yalie : ELI
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Goof off at the office : LIEDOWNONTHEJOB
62
Alfonso's queen : ENA
63
Change a cryptogram : RECODE
64
New Delhi princess : RANI
65
Stop up : DAM
66
Nickname for Stan Musial : THEMAN
67
Votes in favor : AYES
Down
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Evaluate : ASSESS
2
Spanish tubers : PATATAS
3
Height : STATURE
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Postsundown time, to Poe : EEN
5
Stubborn as ___ : AMULE
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Pickled flower buds : CAPERS
7
London trolley : TRAM
8
Combustion system : IGNITION
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Ending for aster or human : OID
10
Parts of violins : NECKS
11
Noblewoman : PEERESS
12
As ___ mud : CLEARAS
13
Dental calculus : TARTAR
18
Ketcham's imp : DENNIS
19
Urgency : HASTE
24
Hanoi's locale, to a G.I. : NAM
26
Guiding beliefs of a people : ETHOS
29
Exact moment : POINT
32
Burn superficially : SINGE
36
Ballerina's routine : TOEDANCE
37
Broadway Joe : NAMATH
38
Mexican saloon : CANTINA
39
"Skim milk masquerades ___": W. S. Gilbert : ASCREAM
40
Started, as a horse : SHIED
43
One of the grad schools : MED
44
Royal opponent, sometimes : BLUEJAY
45
Ear shell : ABALONE
46
Deluded : MISLED
48
Slate : AGENDA
50
Excuses for defendants : ALIBIS
52
Big spender : SPORT
54
Bavarian measures of length : RUTEN
57
Meet one's gaze in a haze : LOOM
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Lohengrin's "Alas!" : WEH
61
Stat for Gooden : ERA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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