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Frank Geary
Frank Geary

New York Times, Monday, November 18, 1985

Author:
Frank Geary
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { G J Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 18.7
Frank Geary has 27 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,159
Across
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Highlands girl : LASS
5
Lily's relative : CAMAS
10
Thick slice : SLAB
14
Vow : OATH
15
Mountain ridge : ARETE
16
Aureola : HALO
17
Extent : AREA
18
Erstwhile Turkish V.I.P. : PASHA
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Assert : AVER
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The little troublemaker : DENNISTHEMENACE
23
Superlative ending : EST
24
British stool pigeon : NARK
25
Flying mammal : BAT
28
Bonanza State : MONTANA
31
Kind of pocket : FOB
34
Diva's song : ARIA
36
Composer Ain : NOA
37
Nonsense : TRIPE
39
The hard-working girl : TILLIETHETOILER
43
Paris abducted her : HELEN
44
Crude metal : ORE
45
Simple : MERE
46
Overhead trains : ELS
47
Nobelist in Medicine: 1907 : LAVERAN
51
Occupied a chair : SAT
52
"A ___ of Two Cities" : TALE
53
Sea gull : MEW
55
The spinach eater : POPEYETHESAILOR
63
Neighbor of Iraq : IRAN
64
Heat or meat : ROAST
65
Knob : NODE
66
Put down : LAID
67
Coat with an alloy of lead and tin : TERNE
68
Canadian Indian : CREE
69
Concludes : ENDS
70
Fall flower : ASTER
71
Crowd : HERD
Down
1
Burden : LOAD
2
Rhine feeder : AARE
3
Gun or actress : STEN
4
Ladd film: 1953 : SHANE
5
Acme of achievement : CAPSTONE
6
Smell ___ (be suspicious) : ARAT
7
Entangle : MESH
8
Greek goddess of wisdom : ATHENA
9
Mariner : SEAMAN
10
Cut of beef : SHANK
11
Melted rock : LAVA
12
Pianist Templeton : ALEC
13
Drill : BORE
21
Doctrine : ISM
22
Muse of poetry : ERATO
25
Lave : BATHE
26
Prankster in "The Tempest" : ARIEL
27
Cultivates : TILLS
29
"Tell it ___ in Gath" : NOT
30
Lake in the West : TAHOE
31
Plumbers' tools : FILES
32
"Carmen" is one : OPERA
33
Visorless cap : BERET
35
Lager's relative : ALE
38
Border : RIM
40
Buhlwork : INLAY
41
"To ___ is human": Pope : ERR
42
Truck driver : TEAMSTER
48
Watchword for a soldado : ALERTA
49
Prohibits : VETOES
50
A.F.T. rival : NEA
52
Cares for : TENDS
54
Hoisting machine : WINCH
55
Nap : PILE
56
Seaport in Algeria : ORAN
57
___ in full : PAID
58
Stag : HART
59
Slave of yore : ESNE
60
Learning : LORE
61
It joins the Neisse near Frankfurt : ODER
62
Donna or Rex : REED

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

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