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Arnold Moss
Arnold Moss

New York Times, Thursday, May 3, 1984

Author:
Arnold Moss
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 16.3
Arnold Moss has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,595
Across
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She studied Samoa : MEAD
5
Skedaddle : SCOOT
10
L. Nizer, e.g. : ATTY
14
Sphere preceder : ATMO
15
Lone Ranger's sidekick : TONTO
16
Exam choice : TRUE
17
Tub of a sort : SCOW
18
"___ Melancholy": Keats : ODEON
19
Actress Moreno : RITA
20
Spode, e.g. : CHINAWARE
22
Commands : FIATS
23
Radio's Jane and Goodman : ACES
24
Aficionado : ZEALOT
25
Walk through water : WADE
27
Beer or ale : BREW
29
Relish : SAVOR
30
Reclined : LAIN
31
Kind of joint : CLIP
35
Loesser vessel: 1948 : SLOWBOATTOCHINA
38
Kefauver's state: Abbr. : TENN
39
Burlap material : JUTE
40
Din, e.g. : HINDU
41
Augusta Bracknell, for one : LADY
42
"Picnic" man : INGE
43
Hoi ___ : POLLOI
47
Computer software : DATA
49
Unit follower : ARIAN
50
Gable-Harlow film: 1935 : CHINASEAS
55
Aid for some of the handicapped : RAMP
56
Straight part of a fishhook : SHANK
57
"___ la Douce" : IRMA
58
First site of Olympic games : ELIS
59
"Boléro" man : RAVEL
60
Legal right : LIEN
61
Network of nerves : RETE
62
Metric measure : STERE
63
Maynard and Murray : KENS
Down
1
Not fem. or neut. : MASC
2
Engrave : ETCH
3
Mine, in Metz : AMOI
4
"You must sing 'A-___'": Shak. : DOWNADOWN
5
Topsy's creator : STOWE
6
Musical endings : CODAS
7
Lulu : ONER
8
Platte people : OTOE
9
High fashion : TON
10
Upper chambers of the heart : ATRIA
11
Kafka subject : TRIAL
12
Abruzzi's all : TUTTO
13
Riser in a kitchen : YEAST
21
Bitter : ACERB
22
Not many : FEW
24
Eleatic philosopher : ZENO
25
Ridge : WALE
26
English river : AVON
27
Bonkers : BATTY
28
Stravinsky's "The ___ of Spring" : RITE
29
Fast flier : SST
30
Extol : LAUD
31
Lightweight fabric : CHINASILK
32
Follower of under or duck : LING
33
"Chanson d'___" : INDE
34
Pyrénées city : PAU
36
Calif. resort : OJAI
37
Actress Rivera : CHITA
41
A Eur. capital : LON
43
He whittles while he works : PARER
44
Pope's cape : ORALE
45
The sky can be this : LIMIT
46
Come to an end : LAPSE
47
Fast-food place : DINER
48
Tarsus : ANKLE
50
Songbird : CHAT
51
Eat : HAVE
52
Clinton's waterway : ERIE
53
Grace's ending : AMEN
54
" ... ___ everything": Shak. : SANS
56
Coll. group : SRS

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

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