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Ronald C. Hirschfeld
Ronald C. Hirschfeld

New York Times, Thursday, August 5, 1982

Author:
Ronald C. Hirschfeld
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { B J X Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 27.0
Ronald C. Hirschfeld has 25 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,958
Across
1
S.A. rodents : PACAS
6
Sting a customer : SOAK
10
Napoleon won here: 1796 : LODI
14
Opt : ELECT
15
Othello's deceiver : IAGO
16
Son of Seth : ENOS
17
Beckett tragicomedy : WAITINGFORGODOT
20
Microchip element : SILICON
21
Dives : GAINERS
22
Approved, for short : OKD
23
___ Dinh Diem of S. Vietnam : NGO
24
Nettlesome : SPINY
27
Maglie : SAL
30
Pâté de fois ___ : GRAS
33
Slam set, e.g. : LOSS
34
Play about Caius Marcius : CORIOLANUS
37
Enzyme: Suffix : ASE
38
Ben Jonson comedy : VOLPONE
39
Spasm : TIC
40
Thackeray book, with "The" : VIRGINIANS
42
After: Prefix : META
43
Psychic affinity : TELE
44
Dental degree : DDS
45
Applejack ingredient : CIDER
46
Typographical spaces : ENS
48
Some rwys. : ELS
49
A. Huxley's "Ape and ___" : ESSENCE
53
Book of the Bible : PSALTER
57
Spenser's Gloriana : THEFAERIEQUEENE
59
Tallchief's skirt : TUTU
60
French resort : NICE
61
Pas de deux : DANCE
62
Bibliographic abbr. : ETAL
63
Numerical ending : TEEN
64
Michigan lemon : EDSEL
Down
1
Church benches : PEWS
2
Range in Russia : ALAI
3
Plaster overhead : CEIL
4
Words' outdoers : ACTIONS
5
Like resin : STICKY
6
Omen : SIGN
7
Lout : OAF
8
Excited : AGOG
9
Sacred book of Islam : KORAN
10
Verdi heroine : LEONORA
11
Wavy, in heraldry : ONDE
12
___ die : DOOR
13
Adherents : ISTS
18
Doze : NOD
19
Silly laugh : GIGGLE
24
Serb or Croat : SLAV
25
Assume as fact : POSIT
26
Rhone feeder : ISERE
27
Kind of geometry : SOLID
28
Hungarian hero : ARPAD
29
Literary celebrities : LIONS
31
Fed the pot : ANTED
32
Simon's "Plaza ___" : SUITE
34
Swindle : CON
35
Cricket term : ONS
36
Cicatrix : SCAR
38
Congress of ___: 1814–15 : VIENNA
41
Merry : GLEEFUL
42
Dupe : MISLEAD
45
Debussy : CLAUDE
47
Bouquet : SCENT
48
Marquand's "H. M. Pulham, ___" : ESQ
49
Diminutive suffix : ETTE
50
Close : SHUT
51
Bristle : SETA
52
Clinton's canal : ERIE
53
Hammer, in a way : PEEN
54
Bo and other beauties : TENS
55
Noun ending : ENCE
56
Part of piscatorial paraphernalia : REEL
58
Diamonds: Slang : ICE

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

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