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John Greenman
John Greenman

New York Times, Friday, May 6, 1983

Author:
John Greenman
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.17, Missing: { B F H J Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 82, Cheaters: 11, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 20.1
John Greenman has 52 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 12 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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N
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M
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C
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I
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K
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C
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G
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M
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,232
Across
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Aficionado : DEVOTEE
8
Enjoyed to the fullest : SAVORED
15
Panaceas : ELIXIRS
16
Fatuousness : INANITY
17
Plywood layers : VENEERS
18
Pep up : ENLIVEN
19
Kilns' kin : OVENS
20
Chilling : EERIE
22
George Gershwin's brother : IRA
23
Badger : NAG
24
Bongo's cousin : SNARE
25
Threesome in "innuendo" : ENS
26
El stop : STA
27
Maxims : DICTA
28
Jack of rhyme : SPRAT
30
White weasels : ERMINES
32
Bonfire remnant : COAL
33
Get on one's nerves : IRK
34
Word with shot or mark : EAR
35
Corresponding : SAME
37
Joy's antithesis : SADNESS
41
Prepare fare for affairs : CATER
42
Kind of ticket : SPLIT
43
Bergman daughter : PIA
45
Anagram for tor or rot : ORT
46
Culpability : GUILT
47
Conjunction in Dresden : UND
48
Catullus product : ODE
49
Cleo or Frankie of songdom : LAINE
50
O'Neill's "___ Millions" : MARCO
52
Basswoods : LINDENS
54
Cheshire cat, e.g. : GRINNER
56
Codas : ENDINGS
57
Kind of crow or kingbird : EASTERN
58
Be contemptuous : DESPISE
59
Stops vacillating : DECIDES
Down
1
Reddish cattle : DEVONS
2
Elate : ELEVATE
3
Condiment : VINEGAR
4
Bunyan's Babe et al. : OXEN
5
Inconclusive conclusions : TIES
6
Misjudge : ERR
7
Crux : ESSENCE
8
Mackerellike fish : SIERRA
9
Recent Broadway hit : ANNIE
10
Lowland : VALE
11
U.S.N. arm : ONI
12
Where the jet set get wet : RIVIERA
13
Part of an epithet for Rome : ETERNAL
14
Hereditary ruler : DYNAST
21
Breaks bread : EATS
24
Descend : SINK
27
More calamitous : DIRER
28
Measly : SCANT
29
Ponder : PORE
31
Athenian farce : MIME
34
Splice kinescopes : EDIT
35
Young pilchard : SARDINE
36
Heeds : ATTENDS
37
Motorist's short trip : SPIN
38
Adjective for a suspected perpetrator : ALLEGED
39
Rejected scornfully : SPURNED
40
Like many pen pals : SINCERE
41
Put on ice : COOLED
42
Switzerland, to the French : SUISSE
44
Bedecks : ADORNS
46
Bad bands : GANGS
49
___-Lenape Indians : LENI
50
File sect. : MISC
51
Con : ANTI
53
Hors d'oeuvre item : DIP
55
Star of TV's "The Facts of Life" : RAE

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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