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Charles Engler
Charles Engler

New York Times, Tuesday, April 5, 1983

1-Across : High golf shot

Author:
Charles Engler
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.76, Missing: { J W X Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Charles Engler has 13 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,201
Across
1
High golf shot : BAFF
5
Booted : SHOD
9
Jaw : GAB
12
Seat of Nobel Institute : OSLO
13
First name of the 18th U.S. President : HIRAM
15
Glut : SATE
16
Shensi province capital : SIAN
17
Lariat for Luis : REATA
18
Crafts' companion : ARTS
19
Start of an Ogden Nash rhyme : CANDYISDANDYBUT
22
Astronauts' go-ahead signal : AOK
23
Loser to H.C.H. in 1928 : AES
24
Applied the rod : SPANKED
28
Beached : AGROUND
32
Rank : CASTE
33
Wild talker : RAVER
35
Mauna ___, Hawaiian volcano : LOA
36
Black cuckoo : ANI
37
Slowly aged beer : LAGER
38
Critic's cluck : TST
39
Operculum : LID
40
Creator : MAKER
41
"'Twas on ___ they slew Him": Lanier : ATREE
43
Phonograph-record coating : ACETATE
45
Filaments : THREADS
47
Pub staple : RYE
48
"Three Men ___ Horse" : ONA
49
End of the Nash rhyme : LIQUORISQUICKER
58
Chits : IOUS
59
A memorable Rubinstein : ARTUR
60
Last Stuart ruler : ANNE
61
Insipid : FLAT
62
Pope who became a saint : LEOII
63
Cows, to Cowper : KINE
64
Simmons or Kluszewski : TED
65
Lon. and Rot. : SPTS
66
And others: Lat. abbr. : ETAL
Down
1
Pear variety : BOSC
2
Gunther's "Inside ___" : ASIA
3
Cheese-filled tart, e.g. : FLAN
4
Creamy confection : FONDANT
5
Butcherbird : SHRIKE
6
Speeds : HIES
7
Toward the mouth : ORAD
8
Computer "food" : DATA
9
Habiliment : GARB
10
Aleutian battleground: 1943 : ATTU
11
Outdo : BEST
14
Houk of the Red Sox : MANAGER
15
Authority : SAYSO
20
Bondage : YOKE
21
Author Earl ___ Biggers : DERR
24
Milan's La ___ : SCALA
25
Wall Street event: 1929 : PANIC
26
Isolated : ASIDE
27
Donald Duck, for one : DRAKE
28
Turn away : AVERT
29
Extremist : ULTRA
30
Word between red and reindeer : NOSED
31
Products of some palms : DATES
34
Vital statistic : AGE
37
Football play : LATERAL
40
Noted name in medicine : MAYO
41
Indian water buffalo : ARNI
42
Light, flat pastry : TEACAKE
44
Reliance : TRUST
46
Moslem beauties in Paradise : HOURIS
49
Jack, for one : LIFT
50
Maiden captured by Hercules : IOLE
51
Type-metal space : QUAD
52
Angers : IRES
53
Street-corner sign : STOP
54
Knock off : QUIT
55
It goes with purl : KNIT
56
City in Sicily : ENNA
57
Bobbin : REEL

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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