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Emory H. Cain
Emory H. Cain

New York Times, Thursday, July 30, 1981

Author:
Emory H. Cain
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 55, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 11, XRef: 2, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 22.4
Emory H. Cain has 10 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,587
Across
1
Border : HEM
4
Kobe quaff : SAKE
8
Tallinn native : ESTH
12
Bye-bye : TATA
13
Dismounted : ALIT
14
Rapidity : SPEED
16
Arena in Atlanta : OMNI
17
Joust : TILT
18
Earl or duke : TITLE
19
With 46 Across, quotation from Cicero : AMANOFCOURAGEIS
22
___ gin : SLOE
23
Ike's W.W. II command : ETO
24
"___, is it I?": Matt. 26:25 : MASTER
27
Fast cat : CHEETAH
31
Tittles : IOTAS
32
Wire nails : BRADS
33
A gift that some possess : GAB
35
Playing card : TREY
36
He wrote "A Mind That Found Itself" : BEERS
37
Had on one's person : WORE
38
Paris season : ETE
39
Moderated : BATED
40
Begat : SIRED
41
Place for matériel : ARSENAL
43
Kind of seed : SESAME
44
Canoodle : PET
45
Little chief ___ (the pika) : HARE
46
See 19 Across : ALSOFULLOFFAITH
54
Electron tube : DIODE
55
Comfort : EASE
56
Singer Laine : CLEO
57
Winsor heroine : AMBER
58
Let it stand : STET
59
" ... shall ___ the whirlwind": Hos. 8:7 : REAP
60
Oldest living First Lady : BESS
61
Slithery : EELY
62
Diminutive suffixes : ETS
Down
1
City in NW Germany : HAMM
2
Borough near Pittsburgh : ETNA
3
Principal support : MAINSTAY
4
Obliged a portraitist : SATFOR
5
Kramden's mate : ALICE
6
Prefix for watt : KILO
7
Brute predecessors : ETTU
8
Landed properties : ESTATES
9
Peg for a keg : SPIGOT
10
What Danton lost in 1794 : TETE
11
Prefix for copter : HELI
12
Shelley's "___ Skylark" : TOA
15
___ Arc, Ark. : DES
20
Fronton cries : OLES
21
Bamboolike grasses : REEDS
24
Minute arachnid : MITE
25
Artery : AORTA
26
Ox : STEER
27
Wickerwork basket : CREEL
28
Darlene of tennis fame : HARD
29
Greek assembly : AGORA
30
Where a khanum presides : HAREM
32
Phi ___ Kappa : BETA
34
Eliot hero : BEDE
36
Language spoken in Malawi : BANTU
37
Know-it-all : WISEACRE
39
Grumblebrains : BEEFERS
40
Toiler of 1066 : SERF
42
Famed English potters : SPODES
43
Gun part : SAFETY
45
Golf club part : HOSEL
46
"___ from Decatur" : ADA
47
Fin or wing : LIMB
48
"___ it!" : SOBE
49
___-majesté : LESE
50
Not on time : LATE
51
"___ a Song Go ... " : ILET
52
Socials : TEAS
53
Flight on a shuttle : HOP

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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