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Hugh McElroy
Hugh McElroy

New York Times, Wednesday, December 12, 1979

Author:
Hugh McElroy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J K Q V W Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 18, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 23.1
Hugh McElroy has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,991
Across
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Pleasure sounds : AHS
4
Mrs. Bunker : EDITH
9
Le ___, auto-racing center : MANS
13
___ d'etat : COUP
15
Crooner Ross : LANNY
16
Eastern port : AMOY
17
A Maxwell : ELSA
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"The ___ Lady," 1928 film : MYSTERIOUS
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Most intelligent : SMARTEST
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Certain tan fan : NUDIST
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Stendhal's "Le Rouge et le ___" : NOIR
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Prop for yesteryear's dandy : CANE
25
The ___ of the ball : BELLE
27
Half or third of a dance : CHA
29
Fireplace : INGLE
33
Dueling blade : EPEE
34
Gothic king : ALARIC
36
Battering object : RAM
37
Hubbard's dog's share : NONE
38
Star of films in this puzzle : GARBO
39
___ Humorum, dark plain on the moon : MARE
40
Tribe of Nigeria : EDO
41
Site of Lafayette College : EASTON
42
French fresco figure : ANGE
43
Man from Port Arthur : TEXAN
45
Word with bull or fountain : PEN
46
Down ___ (Australia) : UNDER
47
Wife of Harry S : BESS
49
Man from Tallinn : ESTH
50
"And what is ___ as ... " : SORARE
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Prison management : PENOLOGY
57
Film of 1926 : THETORRENT
59
Raison d'___ : ETRE
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___-de-camp : AIDE
61
Light stage fare : FARCE
62
O'Casey : SEAN
63
Kind of times or news : GOOD
64
Direct : STEER
65
Weight abbr. : LBS
Down
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Dice throw : ACES
2
Olympic swimmer Eleanor : HOLM
3
"___: Her Fall and Rise," 1931 film : SUSANLENOX
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Rice or Gantry : ELMER
5
September's thirty : DAYS
6
Sch. or acad. : INST
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Nobel product : TNT
8
Al Capp's Lena the ___ : HYENA
9
Kind of voyage : MAIDEN
10
Mine, in Tours : AMOI
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Entre ___ : NOUS
12
Method: Abbr. : SYST
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One released on trust : PAROLEE
19
Like an old Norse poem : RUNIC
21
Kind of bind : TIE
24
Duplicating aid : CARBON
25
"John Brown's Body" poet : BENET
26
Lyric poem : EPODE
27
Jewelry items : CLASPS
28
Author Bret ___ : HARTE
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Film of 1932 : GRANDHOTEL
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At ___ (loose) : LARGE
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Potentate in Arabia : EMEER
34
___ Khan : AGA
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Charged particle : ION
39
Cloaks or capes : MANTLES
41
Juárez January : ENERO
44
Eased up : ABATED
46
G.I.'s home away from home : USO
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Certain laborers : SERFS
49
Go onstage : ENTER
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"The ___ at eve ... " : STAG
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Buckeye State : OHIO
52
Alter the décor : REDO
53
Balzac's "Le ___ Goriot" : PERE
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Suffix with infer : ENCE
55
Kind of bag : GRAB
56
Desires : YENS
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Tattletale : RAT

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