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Coleburn
Coleburn

New York Times, Tuesday, July 2, 1985

Author:
Coleburn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 320 (avg 1.69)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 39.7 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Coleburn has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,020
Across
1
Cooking direction : SIFT
5
Large crowd : DROVE
10
He rode a goat-drawn chariot : THOR
14
White with age : HOAR
15
Borne by the wind : EOLIC
16
Make over : REDO
17
"I cannot tell ___" : ALIE
18
Favorite : FAIRHAIRED
20
Like Charlie Brown's puppy : WARM
21
Prefix with system : ECO
22
Combat : OPPOSE
23
What freeloaders do : MOOCH
25
Quagmire : FEN
26
Red wine : CLARET
28
Help along temporarily : TIDEOVER
33
Mountain in Jordan : HOR
34
R2D2, for one : ROBOT
36
Brazilian city : ARAXA
37
Tubs : ARKS
39
Ponderosa, e.g. : RANCH
41
Oppositionist : ANTI
42
Novel or vital : FRESH
44
Hungarian composer : LEHAR
46
Drama by Euripides : ION
47
Shackled : FETTERED
49
In general : MOSTLY
51
Eur. country : AUS
52
Harmony : AMITY
53
Live coals : EMBERS
57
Fr. title : MME
58
Rembrandt's "Lady with ___" : AFAN
61
Site of the Trylon and Perisphere: 1939 : WORLDSFAIR
63
Hub : NAVE
64
Ignorance, to Socrates : EVIL
65
Figure on a quarter : EAGLE
66
National park in SW Utah : ZION
67
Radiation measures : REMS
68
Reliable : TRIED
69
"Judith" composer : ARNE
Down
1
Nobelist in Literature: 1925 : SHAW
2
City in Kan. : IOLA
3
___ value (reasonable price) : FAIRMARKET
4
Seismic activity : TREMOR
5
Baryshnikov, e.g. : DEFECTOR
6
La cucaracha : ROACH
7
Mixture : OLIO
8
Caesar or Brutus : VIR
9
Reverberated : ECHOED
10
It's sometimes round : TRIP
11
Leander's love : HERO
12
Canticles : ODES
13
Harassed : RODE
19
Shortness of breath : APNEA
24
Above, to Poe : OER
25
Polecat : FITCH
26
Worthless part : CHAFF
27
He played Mr. Moto : LORRE
28
Gave inflection : TONED
29
Domesday Book money : ORA
30
Thackeray classic : VANITYFAIR
31
Eulogize : EXTOL
32
Fit for ducks : RAINY
35
Large bundles : BALES
38
Concorde : SST
40
Pounded : HAMMERED
43
Phoenix Indian-relics museum : HEARD
45
Charlemagne was one : ROI
48
Winter apple : RUSSET
50
Quatrain : STANZA
52
It's as good as a miss : AMILE
53
Slender pitcher : EWER
54
P-Q4, in chess : MOVE
55
Lip : BRIM
56
Wings : ELLS
57
Balthazar et al. : MAGI
59
Where The Bard might have punted : AVON
60
State bird of Hawaii : NENE
62
Near's antithesis : FAR

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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