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Frank Geary
Frank Geary

New York Times, Wednesday, June 20, 1984

32-Down : Pertaining to a short account

Author:
Frank Geary
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { H J K Q V X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 252 (avg 1.33)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Frank Geary has 27 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,643
Across
1
Prove : TEST
5
Chevet : APSE
9
Atlas amplification : INSET
14
Event for Edwin Moses : RACE
15
Indefinite years : EONS
16
Peteman's material : NITRO
17
Press : IRON
18
Inlets : RIAS
19
Fragment : SCRAP
20
River duck : BLUEWINGEDTEAL
23
True copy : ESTREAT
24
A side of the Big Apple : EAST
25
Indisposed : ILL
26
Flaps : FLUTTERS
30
Design : DRAFT
33
Candied, as fruit : GLACE
34
Obtain : GET
35
Finnish poem : RUNE
36
Find fault : BLAME
37
Collier's milieu : MINE
38
Lyric poem : ODE
39
Dowdy woman : FRUMP
40
Shakespeare contemporary : BACON
41
Embezzle : PECULATE
43
Eastern Church chalice veil : AER
44
Haul : DRAW
45
Relative of a tummy ache : ILEITIS
49
Large American thrush : ROBINREDBREAST
52
Elemental substance : METAL
53
Border: Her. : ORLE
54
Eden's ___ of life : TREE
55
Empty : INANE
56
Feretory : BIER
57
Pulled apart : TORE
58
Took out : DELED
59
Spanish muralist : SERT
60
Egyptian sun god : ATEN
Down
1
Social group : TRIBE
2
Noblemen : EARLS
3
Kit Carson was one : SCOUT
4
Largest of the Canary Islands : TENERIFE
5
Antenna : AERIAL
6
Sharp end : POINT
7
Knot : SNAG
8
Being: Lat. : ESSE
9
Preside at an inauguration : INSTATE
10
Most precise : NICEST
11
Part of SAC : STRATEGIC
12
Pertaining to an age : ERAL
13
Acme : TOP
21
Strip of shoe leather : WELT
22
Dice cast called "snake eyes" : DEUCE
26
Blaze : FLAME
27
Illuminant : LAMP
28
City that's a oner on reflection : RENO
29
Goldwyn protégée : STEN
30
Let fall : DROP
31
Boorish : RUDE
32
Pertaining to a short account : ANECDOTAL
33
Surfeit : GLUT
36
Muscular strength : BRAWN
37
"Naughty ___" : MARIETTA
39
Threshed or thrashed : FLAILED
40
Vassar product : BEER
42
Suave : URBANE
43
Victoria's consort : ALBERT
45
Empty railroad car : IDLER
46
Card for a Cassandra : TAROT
47
River in France : ISERE
48
Dutch genre painter : STEEN
49
Descartes : RENE
50
Rifles : ROBS
51
Fourth of HOMES : ERIE
52
Prefix with day or night : MID

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

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