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Charles Engler
Charles Engler

New York Times, Monday, August 25, 1980

8-Down : His nemesis was Castro

Author:
Charles Engler
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { J Q U X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 288 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 60, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Charles Engler has 13 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,248
Across
1
___ on the line : CASH
5
Sm. change : CTS
8
Deep in tone : BASS
12
Hep : ONTO
13
Tract : AREA
14
Right-angled to the keel : ABEAM
16
Catskills art colony : WOODSTOCK
18
Musical speeds : TEMPI
19
Saratoga circuit : LAP
20
Anti-Saloon League goal : PROHIBITION
22
"Double Indemnity" author : CAIN
23
Genus Equus member : ASS
24
Earhart : AMELIA
27
Woodland ruminant : HART
29
Cusk's cousin : COD
32
Smoking room : DIVAN
33
Infamous booze boss in the 20's : ALCAPONE
35
Arabian gulf : ADEN
36
Black ___ (paddy wagon) : MARIA
38
What British bulldozers do : RASE
39
Violent aftermath of 20 Across : GANGWARS
41
No-no for a "darling daughter" : WATER
42
Superlative suffix : EST
43
Emulate Dürer : ETCH
44
Small and trim : PETITE
45
Coddle : PET
46
Mold-ripened cheese : BRIE
47
Roaring Twenties rendezvous : SPEAKEASIES
52
Kind of dance : TAP
55
Moon valley : RILLE
56
Rests briefly : TAKESFIVE
58
Barkley : ALBEN
59
___ faustum (a lucky sign) : OMEN
60
Corner for fervent worshipers : AMEN
61
Hog product : LARD
62
Letter apps. : PPS
63
Nidus : NEST
Down
1
Chimney covering : COWL
2
Celebes ox : ANOA
3
Street sign : STOP
4
Coal scuttle : HOD
5
Imitate Russ Columbo : CROON
6
Carnegie or Georgia : TECH
7
Bushy-tailed monkey : SAKI
8
His nemesis was Castro : BATISTA
9
Incites : ABETS
10
Prefix with desert or darkness : SEMI
11
Toadfish : SAPO
13
Roman halls : ATRIA
15
Andy Gump's wife : MIN
17
Part of Iberia : SPAIN
21
Small Spanish gunboat : BARCA
22
Trolley sound : CLANG
24
Maxim : ADAGE
25
Very wealthy man : MIDAS
26
Super Bowl, e.g. : EVENT
27
Jarring : HARSH
28
Shiites' saint : ALI
29
Raccoon's relative : COATI
30
Assault : ONSET
31
Farm-machine pioneer : DEERE
34
Blather : PRATE
36
Smelting mixture : MATTE
37
Azimuth : ARC
40
What Milland lost in a 1945 movie : WEEKEND
41
Ehrich ___ (Houdini) : WEISS
44
Primp : PREEN
45
Less ruddy : PALER
46
Pedals : BIKES
47
Mrs., in Mérida : SRA
48
Term for a Nolan Ryan fastball : PILL
49
Exile isle : ELBA
50
At the crest : ATOP
51
Coarse hominy : SAMP
52
Einstein's fourth dimension : TIME
53
Salutations : AVES
54
Confined : PENT
57
Whiff at the plate : FAN

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

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