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Gayle Dean
Gayle Dean

New York Times, Friday, September 27, 1985

Author:
Gayle Dean
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J K Q W X Y }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 15.8
Gayle Dean has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 5 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,107
Across
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Part of a lamp : HARP
5
Created : MADE
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Nimbi : HALOS
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Pen name of Coleridge's good friend : ELIA
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Black, to Blake : EBON
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Leaning : ATILT
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Frank's wrap : ROLL
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Bewilder : DAZE
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Hope's "The Prisoner of ___" : ZENDA
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Fragile : DELICATE
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Aged beer : LAGER
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Start of a quotation : SILENCEISONE
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Quotation: Part II : GREAT
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Like some bloomers : LATE
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Attacked suddenly : RAIDED
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Reynolds or Bacharach : BURT
33
Jekyll's milieu : LAB
36
Land measure : ACRE
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A Ford who could afford a Rolls : EDSEL
39
Ripped : TORE
40
Apiary occupant : BEE
41
Portico : STOA
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Moe, e.g. : STOOGE
44
Last word : AMEN
45
Quotation: Part III : ARTOF
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End of quotation : CONVERSATION
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Advantage : AVAIL
53
Rubbed down : MASSAGED
57
Essential : VITAL
58
"Golden West" person : GIRL
59
Winfield of the Yankees : DAVE
60
Maternally cognate : ENATE
61
Put in the pot : ANTE
62
Unlocked : OPEN
63
Crossed out : DELED
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Mail : POST
65
Dispatched : SENT
Down
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Animal group : HERD
2
Medicinal plant : ALOE
3
Small brook : RILL
4
Fort enclosure : PALISADE
5
Chest ornament : MEDAL
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Diminish : ABATE
7
Twelve : DOZEN
8
Abilene-to-Fort Worth dir. : ENE
9
Author of the quotation : HAZLITT
10
Military command : ATEASE
11
Jargon : LINGO
12
Bygone, in poesy : OLDEN
13
Rubberneck : STARE
21
Give a summons to : CITE
24
Aid for Holmes : CLUE
25
Some noblemen : EARLS
26
Snatch : GRAB
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Drag or relay follower : RACE
28
Ireland : EIRE
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Dissuade : DETER
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Dan Beard's org. : BSA
33
Pillage : LOOT
34
Jason's ship : ARGO
35
Stroganoff ingredient : BEEF
38
Puts on : DONS
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Tempestuous rages : TORNADOS
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Sniffed : SMELLED
43
McCloud's hometown : TAOS
44
Emulate Balbo : AVIATE
46
Hollowed; undermined : CAVED
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Like bighorns : OVINE
48
Of one's birth : NATAL
49
___ acids : AMINO
50
Little pies : TARTS
51
Key : ISLET
54
Yawn : GAPE
55
Tied : EVEN
56
Fender blight : DENT
58
Lacuna : GAP

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

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