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Stanley Glass
Stanley Glass

New York Times, Wednesday, January 20, 1993

65-Across : Inoperative

Author:
Stanley Glass
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 300 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has duplicate clues.
Stanley Glass has 26 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,779
Across
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Hamelin's tempter : PIPER
6
Month after Shebat : ADAR
10
Apartment for poultry? : COOP
14
Not at all anxious : LOATH
15
Inevitable : SURE
16
Loose-hipped dance : HULA
17
Inoperative : ONTHESHELF
19
Roman road : ITER
20
Gauguin's island paradise : TAHITI
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Prospect : OUTLOOK
23
Greek island : CORFU
26
Faldo's game : GOLF
27
"Tea for ___" : TWO
30
Make a second appearance : REENTER
32
Bran source : OAT
35
Hindu queen : RANI
37
Muslim mystic : SUFI
38
___ cotta : TERRA
40
Pop song lead-in : INTRO
42
Racket : DIN
43
Church official : ELDER
44
Irish playwright : BEHAN
45
W.W. II loser : AXIS
47
Make repairs : MEND
48
Middle of a famous palindrome : ERE
49
Vascular organs : SPLEENS
52
Sugar ___ Robinson : RAY
53
Type of market or circus : FLEA
55
Sun-cured : DRIED
57
Actress Swit : LORETTA
60
Group within 36 Down : PROVOS
64
Tel ___ : AVIV
65
Inoperative : ONTHEBLINK
68
Chigger : MITE
69
Concept: Comb. form : IDEO
70
Western Turkey, once : IONIA
71
Wood-trimming tool : ADZE
72
Out of ___ (uncoordinated) : SYNC
73
"___ We All," 1929 song : ARENT
Down
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Conspiracy : PLOT
2
New Rochelle college : IONA
3
Primrose ___ : PATH
4
Guiding principle : ETHIC
5
Speaker like Bryan : RHETOR
6
Bat material : ASH
7
Twice uno : DUE
8
Woody's boy : ARLO
9
Hideout : REFUGE
10
Cause of shaking : CHILL
11
Inoperative : OUTOFORDER
12
Substitute at dinner : OLEO
13
Most popular street name in the U.S. : PARK
18
Begets : SIRES
22
Rich cake : TORTE
24
Describing the medieval system : FEUDAL
25
Detached : UNFIXED
27
Closely related group : TRIBE
28
Big or Little Poison : WANER
29
Inoperative : ONTHEFRITZ
31
Harder to see : TINIER
33
Sports building : ARENA
34
Dilatory : TARDY
36
Rebels in Uris's "Trinity" : IRA
39
"Nightmare" street : ELM
41
Beginning : ONSET
46
Take potshots : SNIPE
50
Dialect : PATOIS
51
Belgrade is its capital : SERBIA
54
Embankment : LEVEE
56
Grief : DOLOR
57
Tibetan priest : LAMA
58
"Ars Amatoria" poet : OVID
59
Comic strip's Gump : ANDY
61
Woodland climber : VINE
62
___ years (elderly) : ONIN
63
Card game for three : SKAT
66
"___ Little Indians" : TEN
67
Ad ___ committee : HOC

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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