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Virginia L. Yates
Virginia L. Yates

New York Times, Monday, December 2, 1985

Author:
Virginia L. Yates
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J M Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 29.5
Virginia L. Yates has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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L
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,173
Across
1
Ness or Lomond : LOCH
5
"___ Love Song": 1929 : PAGAN
10
Knife handle : HAFT
14
Yearn : ACHE
15
Worship : ADORE
16
___ Sedgwick, tragic heiress : EDIE
17
U.S. ballistic missile : THOR
18
Economize : CUTCORNERS
20
Embrace : ESPOUSE
22
Scrap : SNIPPET
23
Gridiron's Dawson : LEN
24
Fall guy : PATSY
25
Corrodible : EROSIVE
29
Pilsener, for one : BEER
31
Follow : DOG
32
Relative of Limburger : TILSIT
34
"___ Hagen Girl," Reagan film : THAT
38
"Beowulf," e.g. : EPIC
40
Reduce prices drastically : SLASH
41
Home of the Elis : YALE
42
Receipt, in Reims : RECU
43
"My Sister ___," 1942 film : EILEEN
45
Bee's follower : CEE
46
U.S.S.R. news service : TASS
48
Relax : SLACKEN
50
Qum native : IRANI
53
Scampered : RAN
54
Is a member : BELONGS
57
Coquettish manner : COYNESS
61
Quibble : SPLITHAIRS
63
Use a word processor : TYPE
64
Viking name : ERIC
65
Old Indian coins : ANNAS
66
Cordelia's sire : LEAR
67
Christie's "And Then There Were ___" : NONE
68
Seed coat : TESTA
69
Author Ferber : EDNA
Down
1
Tardy : LATE
2
Noted publisher: 1858–1935 : OCHS
3
Sophistic, involved argumentation : CHOPLOGIC
4
"Hogan's ___," TV series : HEROES
5
Cold-weather footwear : PACS
6
Together: Mus. : ADUE
7
Acquired : GOT
8
Curves : ARCS
9
Inert gas : NEON
10
She-only shindig : HENPARTY
11
Skilled : ADEPT
12
Gives the ax : FIRES
13
Peevish : TESTY
19
Ready to pick : RIPE
21
Type of pricing : UNIT
25
Fulda tributary : EDER
26
Lasso : ROPE
27
Clamps : VISES
28
Psychologist Havelock ___ : ELLIS
29
Winds from the Alps : BISES
30
One of the Barrymores : ETHEL
33
Gal of song : SAL
35
Trite : HACKNEYED
36
Aweather's opposite : ALEE
37
Youth 'twixt 12 and 20 : TEEN
39
Didn't make the grade : CUTNOICE
44
Not a one, in Appalachia : NARY
47
"___ Misbehavin'," 1929 song : AINT
49
Rear of a saddle : CANTLE
50
"Ghosts" playwright : IBSEN
51
Printer's proof, for short : REPRO
52
Tuckered out : ALLIN
55
Indian mountain pass : GHAT
56
Sensible : SANE
57
Follower of pluto or auto : CRAT
58
Greek peak : OSSA
59
Bridge : SPAN
60
Antitoxins : SERA
62
Officeholders : INS

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

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