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Virginia L. Yates
Virginia L. Yates

New York Times, Monday, June 9, 1986

34-Down : Ready for plucking

Author:
Virginia L. Yates
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Virginia L. Yates has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,362
Across
1
Part of a calyx : SEPAL
6
What Wednesday's child is full of : WOE
9
Newton or Stern : ISAAC
14
"Phaedo" creator : PLATO
15
Doctor's org. : AMA
16
Perry Mason's secretary : DELLA
17
Go-getters : LIVEWIRES
19
Kind of ego : ALTER
20
Real ending : IZE
21
Dickens's Artful ___ : DODGER
23
Cunning : FOXY
24
Game fish : TARPON
26
Cover-up name : ALIAS
28
Cries of pain : OWS
29
"Gulliver's Travels," e.g. : SATIRE
33
Shrimp's relative : PRAWN
36
Dynamo : GENERATOR
39
Yorkshire river : AIRE
40
Neil or Paul : SIMON
41
Restrain : REIN
42
Motivator : SPARKPLUG
44
Old hat : STALE
45
Tie : TETHER
46
Sault ___ Marie : STE
47
S-shaped moldings : OGEES
50
Faux pas : ERRORS
54
Comedienne Pitts : ZASU
57
___ State (New York) : EMPIRE
59
Yarn measure : LEA
60
Mistreat : ABUSE
62
Pitchers and catchers : BATTERIES
64
Oscar winner: 1958 : NIVEN
65
Before, poetically : ERE
66
___ of one's trade : TOOLS
67
Bread ingredient : YEAST
68
Radiation unit : REM
69
Actress Spacek : SISSY
Down
1
Like some decisions : SPLIT
2
A Doolittle : ELIZA
3
One who prepares the way : PAVER
4
Consumed : ATE
5
Facts, with "the" : LOWDOWN
6
Guardian's concern : WARD
7
The end : OMEGA
8
Atelier item : EASEL
9
Mont. neighbor : IDA
10
One with initiative : SELFSTARTER
11
Kind of sax : ALTO
12
Karras or Haley : ALEX
13
British novelist Joyce ___ : CARY
18
Charged atoms : IONS
22
An anagram for siren : RISEN
25
Fireballs : POWERHOUSES
27
Rhine feeder : AAR
30
Virginia willow : ITEA
31
Stir up : ROIL
32
Sea eagle : ERNE
33
Historian's concern : PAST
34
Ready for plucking : RIPE
35
Smell ___ (be suspicious) : ARAT
36
Lesage's "___ Blas" : GIL
37
Ostrich's cousin : EMU
38
Egg attachment : NOG
40
Wingding : SPREE
43
Cask : KEG
44
Bond and Bourbon : STREETS
46
Famed muralist : SERT
48
Glowing cinder : EMBER
49
Like some ribs or tires : SPARE
51
Mixtures : OLIOS
52
Staggers : REELS
53
Impertinent : SASSY
54
Absurd : ZANY
55
He had an Irish Rose : ABIE
56
Fiji's capital : SUVA
58
Component : ITEM
61
Tolkien character : ENT
63
Louis XIV, for one : ROI

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

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