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Virginia L. Yates
Virginia L. Yates

New York Times, Monday, February 18, 1985

Author:
Virginia L. Yates
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 314 (avg 1.66)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 32.3 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Virginia L. Yates has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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H
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U
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,886
Across
1
Snap up : GRAB
5
Covent Garden offering : OPERA
10
Sullen : GLUM
14
Actress Keeler : RUBY
15
Mulcts : FINES
16
Coin in Cremona : LIRA
17
Baal, e.g. : IDOL
18
A square, like Caspar Milquetoast : FUDDYDUDDY
20
Contrive : DEVISE
22
Solemn : SERIOUS
23
Snare : ENTRAP
26
Golfer's cheapest purchase : TEE
27
Wordsworth's " ... Tintern ___" : ABBEY
29
Kind of material : RAW
31
"Where there ___ no Ten Commandments": Kipling : ARENT
35
Kin of Bronx cheers : BOOS
36
Havoc : MAYHEM
38
By way of : VIA
39
Eastern title : AGA
40
A square, à la Sinclair Lewis : BABBITT
41
"___ Let Them Clash," Burns poem : EEN
42
Sun. text : SER
43
Soporific : OPIATE
44
Suffix with ascend : ANCY
45
Plane starter : HYDRO
47
Rickenbacker, for one : ACE
48
In a quandary : ATSEA
49
Yuk! : UGH
51
Rank below baronet : KNIGHT
53
A splitting, as of atoms : FISSION
57
Most recent : NEWEST
60
Foursquare : ONTHELEVEL
63
Assert : AVER
64
Pulitzer Prize author: 1958 : AGEE
65
Ostracize, in a way : EXILE
66
Descartes : RENE
67
Kitten sounds : MEWS
68
Avocet : STILT
69
Explosives : TNTS
Down
1
Grating : GRID
2
Loutish : RUDE
3
On the square : ABOVEBOARD
4
Reporters covet these : BYLINES
5
Tender : OFFER
6
More, in music : PIU
7
Lineman : END
8
Autumn shades : REDS
9
Until now : ASYET
10
More like stickum : GLUIER
11
Resort near Venice : LIDO
12
Indic language : URDU
13
Baseball's Say Hey Kid : MAYS
19
"I ___ that I dwelt ... ": Bunn : DREAMT
21
Farm enclosure : STY
24
Lawrence of ___ : ARABIA
25
Square up : PAYBACK
27
Embarrass : ABASH
28
Cinematic nickname : BOGEY
30
Blanch : WHITEN
32
All square : EVENSTEVEN
33
Sibling's daughter : NIECE
34
Country singer Tucker : TANYA
36
Chart : MAP
37
Nice summer : ETE
40
___-woogie : BOOGIE
44
Across : ATHWART
46
First prints of movies : RUSHES
48
Mellow : AGE
50
___ up (hibernates) : HOLES
52
Cove : INLET
53
Froth : FOAM
54
"Bus Stop" creator : INGE
55
Fume : STEW
56
Ensuing : NEXT
58
Dispatched : SENT
59
___ bien : TRES
61
Seven, to Severus : VII
62
Wright wing : ELL

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later.

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