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Gene Stone
Gene Stone

New York Times, Wednesday, February 18, 1981

Author:
Gene Stone
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 46, Avg Word Len: 4.71, Missing: { J K V X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 48, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 9, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 27.4 Grid has duplicate clues.
Gene Stone has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,425
Across
1
Twirl : SPIN
5
Bal.-sheet auditor : CPA
8
Papa ___ Duvalier of Haiti : DOC
11
Spiel : LINE
12
Salutes : HAILS
15
Jar : OLLA
17
Brewer's oven : OAST
18
Direction indicator : ARROW
19
Quack grass, e.g. : WEED
20
African antelope : GNU
21
Gov. Graham's state : FLA
22
See 51 Down : WINDOWS
24
Fuel saver : SOLARENERGY
27
Animal or plant structure : ANATOMY
28
Title role for Michael Caine: 1966 : ALFIE
33
Gutenberg's forte: Abbr. : PTG
34
Tiny quaff : SIP
35
Like muddy waters : SILTY
36
Greene's "The ___ American": 1955 : QUIET
38
___ Moines : DES
40
Play the raconteur : AMUSE
41
Student's milieu in Metz : ECOLE
42
Where trks. roll : RTE
44
Kind of jacket : PEA
45
Compact : DENSE
46
Sketched crudely, with "in" or "out" : ROUGHED
48
Devices controlling heating units : THERMOSTATS
52
Fuel saver : GASOHOL
56
Brace's partner : BIT
57
Witty remark : MOT
58
Dash : ELAN
59
Statements of charges, as for heating : BILLS
61
___ facto : IPSO
62
After-bath application : TALC
63
Schubert's Opus 166, e.g. : OCTET
64
Fuel saver for Santa : DEER
65
Bishopric : SEE
66
Hosp. group : DRS
67
Composer Khachaturian : ARAM
Down
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Plods in paludal places : SLOGS
2
Instrument for Percy Grainger : PIANO
3
Fuel saver : INSULATION
4
Clear profit : NET
5
Alpine cottages : CHALETS
6
Having a persecution complex : PARANOID
7
Kind of pressure : AIR
8
Frump : DOWD
9
Spread this around : OLEO
10
Ball of yarn : CLEW
13
British novelist ("Under the Volcano") : LOWRY
14
Large quaff : SWIG
16
Mad. Ave. products : ADS
21
___ Lippo Lippi : FRA
23
SE African lake : NYASA
25
Spiritual band : ANGELS
26
Beethoven's ___ Concerto : EMPEROR
29
Rock-clinging mollusk : LIMPET
30
Fuel saver : FLUEDAMPER
31
"___ long way to Tipperary" : ITSA
32
Needle aperture : EYE
33
Eureka red : PUCE
36
Logician's triumphant sign-off : QED
37
To the ___ (fully) : TEETH
39
Fall guy of a sort : STUMBLER
43
Self-centered ones : EGOISTS
46
Object from the past : RELIC
47
Underdog winner over T.E.D. : HST
49
Peripatetic person : HOBO
50
Where Bobby Shaftoe went : TOSEA
51
With 22 Across fuel savers : STORM
52
"___ Happy," 1930 song : GET
53
Expression of sorrow : ALAS
54
Reduced-price offering : SALE
55
Formerly : ONCE
60
Inc. in England : LTD
61
Writer Tarbell : IDA

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

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