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Newell
Newell

New York Times, Wednesday, August 4, 1982

14-Down : Loosen a boot

Author:
Newell
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { Q W X Y }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 27.6
Newell has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,957
Across
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N.Y.P.D. radio : APB
4
Boca ___, Fla. : RATON
9
Sagan of "Cosmos" : CARL
13
Hindu guide : GURU
15
Lodging : ABODE
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Dramatic award : OBIE
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Vivacity : ELAN
18
Boz is one : NOMDEPLUME
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Conclusion : EPILOGUE
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___ space : OUTER
23
Part of Notre Dame : NAVE
24
Tropical tree : PALM
26
Neapolitan saint : ROCCO
28
Library needs : BOOKENDS
32
Man of the courts : ASHE
33
Singers like Siepi : BASSI
34
Fat : SUET
36
"___ Love You," bio by Sellers' son : PSI
37
Headgear of old : ARMET
38
Evian or Vichy : SPA
39
Box for bucks : TILL
41
Astonished gaze : STARE
42
Hubbub : STIR
43
First and pocket : EDITIONS
45
Lower-class Spanish belles : MAJAS
46
Seattle outfielder : ZISK
47
One remembered : MAMA
48
Bay window : ORIEL
51
Writing paper : FOOLSCAP
55
Item on the hit list : BESTSELLER
58
Tulsa's state: Abbr. : OKLA
59
Put one's foot ___ : INIT
60
Author Hobson : LAURA
61
Little Miss Trent : NELL
62
Locale : SITE
63
Pilfer : STEAL
64
Bangkok man : TAI
Down
1
Pulitzer novelist : AGEE
2
Soft part of fruit : PULP
3
One's own creation : BRAINCHILD
4
Home, to some : RANGE
5
___ Ben Adhem : ABOU
6
Weighty volume : TOME
7
"The ___ Couple" : ODD
8
Maiden-name predecessor : NEE
9
Pilasters : COLUMNS
10
Adjoin : ABUT
11
Frost : RIME
12
Suggestive glance : LEER
14
Loosen a boot : UNLACE
19
Man from Lodz : POLE
21
Ab ___ (from the start) : OVO
24
Baffling puzzles : POSERS
25
High as ___ : AKITE
26
Engrossed : RAPT
27
Actor Davis : OSSIE
28
Hungarian composer: 1881–1945 : BARTOK
29
Ottoman ruler : OSMAN
30
Book cover : DUSTJACKET
31
Reddish brown : SEPIA
33
Groundwork : BASIS
35
Sailors : TARS
40
Poet ___ Woodworth Reese : LIZETTE
42
Man who lost his hair : SAMSON
44
E. Indian herbs : TILS
45
Prefix with content : MAL
47
Aesop fable ending : MORAL
48
Geishas' adornments : OBIS
49
Actor Santoni : RENI
50
"Lord, ___ I?" : ISIT
51
Chimney shaft : FLUE
52
" ... ___ perfumed sea": Poe : OERA
53
Nazimova : ALLA
54
Indic tongue : PALI
56
Sextet in "All's Well ... " : ELS
57
Cicero's lang. : LAT

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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