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Wilson McBeath
Wilson McBeath

New York Times, Wednesday, August 7, 1985

7-Down : Boccaccio's tales

Author:
Wilson McBeath
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 4.89, Min Word Len: 4, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 32.2
Wilson McBeath has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,056
Across
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Foundations : BASES
6
Book by Julian Huxley : ANTS
10
Part of a harness : HAME
14
Expenditure : OUTGO
15
___ Baltea, Po feeder : DORA
16
Press : IRON
17
Go silently : STEAL
18
Declare frankly : AVOW
19
African big game : GNUS
20
Yippee! : HOTDIGGETY
22
Charter : HIRE
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Hamilton-Burr contest : DUEL
24
Consumed : EATEN
26
Neck ruff in Shakespeare's day : FRAISE
30
City in SE Spain : LORCA
32
Bereft : LORN
33
Restrain : STEM
35
Hot under the collar : RILED
39
Kin of a quahog : ASTARTE
41
Use of new words : NEOLOGY
43
Canadian peninsula : GASPE
44
"___ go bragh" : ERIN
46
___ fixe : IDEE
47
Pointless : INANE
49
Paint solvents : ESTERS
51
Choler : ANGER
53
Jardin public : PARC
55
Liquid refreshments : ADES
56
Drugstore cowboys' glances : GOOGOOEYES
62
Actor Edmund ___: 1892–1971 : LOWE
63
The Adamsons' pet : ELSA
64
Simile, e.g. : TROPE
65
Victim : PREY
66
___-do-well : NEER
67
Frost's "The Road Not ___" : TAKEN
68
Withered : SERE
69
Mary ___ Lincoln : TODD
70
Some Nebraskans : OTOES
Down
1
Trough for cooling metal : BOSH
2
Auburn or Marmon : AUTO
3
Manuscript mark : STET
4
Old mild expletive : EGAD
5
Three-dimensional figures : SOLIDS
6
Saw : ADAGE
7
Boccaccio's tales : NOVELLE
8
Meadowlands gait : TROT
9
He painted a fence : SAWYER
10
Absquatulate : HIGHTAILIT
11
Slammin' Sam rival : ARNIE
12
Emulate Electra : MOURN
13
"___ Petit Placidam ... " (Mass. motto) : ENSE
21
Poet Edgar ___ : GUEST
25
Height: Prefix : ACRO
26
Droop : FLAG
27
Diva Ponselle : ROSA
28
Garfunkel and Linkletter : ARTS
29
No way! : INAPIGSEYE
31
Present preceder : OMNI
34
Carl Ed's comical creation : TEEN
36
Vein of glory : LODE
37
City SW of Miskolc : EGER
38
Fuchsin and woad : DYES
40
Quebec's Lévesque : RENE
42
First month in Córdoba : ENERO
45
Took a nap : REPOSED
48
Silver : ARGENT
50
Renata of the Met : SCOTTO
51
Revere : ADORE
52
More recent : NEWER
54
Henry ___ Wallace : AGARD
55
Range in Europe : ALPS
57
Kitchen staple : OLEO
58
Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
59
First name of Lennon's widow : YOKO
60
Blunted sword : EPEE
61
City of the Huguenots : SENS

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

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