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Daniel Girardi
Daniel Girardi

New York Times, Thursday, March 21, 1985

65-Across : Millstone support

Author:
Daniel Girardi
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.72, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.34)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 29.2
Daniel Girardi has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,917
Across
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D.A.'s aide : ASST
5
Radarscope signals : BLIPS
10
Area over an eye or eyes : BROW
14
Chopped cabbage : SLAW
15
"And thus shall ye ___": Exod. : EATIT
16
Papal court : ROTA
17
Categorize : PIGEONHOLE
19
Swan genus : OLOR
20
Jehu : SPEEDER
21
Diamond birds : ORIOLES
23
Asian holiday : TET
24
Behalf : STEAD
25
Pleases a glutton : SATES
28
In medias ___ : RES
29
Part of a jack-in-the-green : SEPAL
33
Good motor sound : PURR
34
By way of : VIA
35
Teach, e.g. : PIRATE
36
Half a Broadway title : IDO
37
Comes tumbling down : TOPPLES
39
Flax fibers : TOW
40
Soprano Farrell : EILEEN
42
Suffix for Arab or Serb : IAN
43
Excellent : AONE
44
Kind of heat : SOLAR
45
Med.-test reading : EEG
46
"___ of God," stage hit : AGNES
47
Mom's and Dad's moms : GRANS
49
Its cap. is Tallahassee : FLA
50
Wild duck : MALLARD
53
Rap sessions? : SEANCES
57
Lily from Africa : ALOE
58
Christmas-song creature : TURTLEDOVE
60
Incision : SLIT
61
"Paradise Lost" figure : URIEL
62
Foil's kin : EPEE
63
Their teeth are scarce : HENS
64
Cleans a meerschaum : REAMS
65
Millstone support : RYND
Down
1
Nile menaces : ASPS
2
Pink item : SLIP
3
Emerson, e.g. : SAGE
4
Stereo component : TWEETER
5
He wrote "Western Star" : BENET
6
"Waiting for Godot" actor : LAHR
7
Assassinated Japanese statesman : ITO
8
Guides : PILOTS
9
Anagram for trees : STERE
10
Chick's pad : BROODER
11
Wad's relative : ROLL
12
County in Neb. : OTOE
13
___ of the Roses : WARS
18
Pindaric pieces : ODES
22
Medical comb. form : IASIS
24
Oyster catchers : SEAPIES
25
People of intelligence : SPIES
26
Partner of visual : AUDIO
27
Sing lustily : TROLL
28
Sunder : RIP
30
"Cry, the Beloved Country" author : PATON
31
Redeem oneself : ATONE
32
English writer-critic: 1817–78 : LEWES
34
Director ___ Stroheim : VON
35
Female swan : PEN
37
"O ___ addio," Verdi aria : TERRA
38
Pool stroke : LAG
41
Bald nestlings : EAGLETS
43
Take ___ (glim) : AGANDER
45
Last : ENDURE
46
Wings on an avis : ALAE
48
Pianist Rubinstein from Poland : ARTUR
49
Drops a bay : FELLS
50
Beer ingredient : MASH
51
Auk genus : ALLE
52
Kind of cloth : LOIN
53
Contain : STEM
54
Ape : COPY
55
Deadlocked : EVEN
56
Source; origin : SEED
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Ebro estuary : RIA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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