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Frances K. Schnitzer
Frances K. Schnitzer

New York Times, Monday, May 7, 1984

39-Across : Cowboy

Author:
Frances K. Schnitzer
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 288 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Frances K. Schnitzer has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,599
Across
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" ... ___ told by an idiot" : ATALE
6
Skin : PARE
10
Divulge secrets : BLAB
14
Palatable : SAPID
15
Down with!: Fr. : ABAS
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Prefix with dynamics : AERO
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Substantiate : PROVE
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Type of Saint : LATTERDAY
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Notion, to Pierre : IDEE
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Covenant : PACT
22
Small amounts : DRAMS
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Famous bonanza : COMSTOCKLODE
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Mah-jongg piece : TILE
27
Actress Le Gallienne : EVA
28
B'way hit sign : SRO
31
Matriculate : ENROLL
34
High-ranking officer : BRASSHAT
36
Secular : LAIC
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A lettuce : COS
38
Famed French actor : TATI
39
Cowboy : BUCKAROO
42
Horatian creations : EPODES
44
Ingested : ATE
45
One of the Seven Dwarfs : DOC
46
___ the Red : ERIC
47
___ barrel (the whole works) : LOCKSTOCKAND
52
Trail of a wild animal : SPOOR
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Simians : APES
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___ of the Rat : YEAR
57
Candidate proposer : NOMINATOR
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Magna ___ : CARTA
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Exploiter : USER
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Diving bird : LOON
62
Father of Hector : PRIAM
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Hereditary unit : GENE
64
Tree trunk : BOLE
65
___ Rogers St. Johns : ADELA
Down
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Gelatinous food mold : ASPIC
2
Slow, in music : TARDO
3
" ... ___ lovely as a tree" : APOEM
4
Farm animals : LIVESTOCK
5
Netherlands commune : EDE
6
Buckingham, e.g. : PALACE
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Taken ___ : ABACK
8
Freight trains : RATTLERS
9
Superlative suffix : EST
10
Ballet handrail : BARRE
11
"___ and the Swan" : LEDA
12
Saroyan hero : ARAM
13
Dandiprats : BOYS
19
Icelandic literary works : EDDAS
21
Kind of tax : POLL
24
E. Indian herb : TIL
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Eggs, to Cicero : OVA
28
Menhaden : SHAD
29
Scold : RATE
30
Elevator name : OTIS
31
Exile island : ELBA
32
Type of mile: Abbr. : NAUT
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Elmer or Grantland : RICE
34
Hiss's cousin : BOO
35
Place having many pens : STOCKYARD
37
Crested parrot : COCKATOO
40
Embellish : ADORN
41
Fabulous bird : ROC
42
Piccadilly Circus sight : EROS
43
Flick : PIC
46
Everlasting, to a poet : ETERNE
47
France's longest river : LOIRE
48
Bobbin : SPOOL
49
Eagle's nest : AERIE
50
Of birth : NATAL
51
Shaw creation : DRAMA
52
Cozy : SNUG
53
Sit : POSE
54
Presage : OMEN
58
Vestment : ALB
59
Audit man, for short : CPA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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