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Charles Engler
Charles Engler

New York Times, Tuesday, November 20, 1979

Author:
Charles Engler
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 299 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 36.3
Charles Engler has 13 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,969
Across
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Doll's cry : MAMA
5
Diamond covering : TARP
9
Good loser : SPORT
14
Styptic : ALUM
15
Concept : IDEA
16
Small drum : TABOR
17
Easy win : ROMP
18
Soup vegetables : PEAS
19
Maine university town : ORONO
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Motor oil : LUBE
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Buddy-buddy : PALSYWALSY
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Oxford University college : ORIEL
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"___ no more, my lady" : WEEP
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Mean : ABJECT
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Boil down : CONDENSE
32
Stir up : ROUSE
33
Quarterback Jones : BERT
34
Toodle-oo : TATA
35
Gypsy husband : ROM
36
Meir : GOLDA
37
Sherrill Milnes's milieu : MET
38
White vestments : ALBS
40
Hole punchers : AWLS
41
Saunter : AMBLE
43
Brazilian city or state : SAOPAULO
45
Assassin : SLAYER
46
Sheridan and Blyth : ANNS
47
Becky of "Vanity Fair" : SHARP
48
Arrogant : HOITYTOITY
52
Long cut : GASH
55
Poetic Muse : ERATO
56
Combining form for 31 Down : VORE
57
Honoré's "Help!" : AMOI
58
Red Sea republic : YEMEN
59
Baseball's Slaughter : ENOS
60
Kind of ski lift : TBAR
61
Temperate, in Troyes : SOBRE
62
Engrossed : RAPT
63
Fictional Jane : EYRE
Down
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Highly valued fertilizer : MARL
2
Felipe, Matty or Jesus : ALOU
3
Gibberish : MUMBOJUMBO
4
Electrical units : AMPERES
5
Shoulder cape : TIPPET
6
"Let's Make ___," TV program : ADEAL
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Heartfelt : REAL
8
Countersigns : PASSWORDS
9
Packed : STOWED
10
Part of a redan : PARAPET
11
Coin of old Corinth : OBOL
12
Colman and Reagan, to friends : RONS
13
Weight system : TROY
22
Gossipy woman : YENTA
24
Diamonds, to a yegg : ICE
26
Tapestry : ARRAS
27
Yale marching song : BOOLA
28
Instrument Casals played : CELLO
29
Insipid : NAMBYPAMBY
30
Commemorative slab : STELE
31
Word with fire or lotus : EATER
33
Overwhelms with surprise : BOWLSOVER
36
Old England's John of ___ : GAUNT
39
Soil by splashing : SPATTER
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Chicken ___ reine : ALA
42
Popular British resort : MARGATE
44
"Tennis, ___?" : ANYONE
45
Most timid : SHYEST
47
Sharpen : STROP
48
Attention-getters : HEYS
49
Mountain: Comb. form : OREO
50
Verse unit : IAMB
51
Historic Hebrides isle : IONA
53
Tower : SOAR
54
Charter : HIRE

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

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