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Daniel Girardi
Daniel Girardi

New York Times, Saturday, January 31, 1987

44-Across : Quarters for Scheherazade

Author:
Daniel Girardi
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J K Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Daniel Girardi has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,598
Across
1
Trafficked : DEALT
6
Come across : MEET
10
Singing style : SCAT
14
"___ is momentary madness ... ": Horace : ANGER
15
Biblical preposition : UNTO
16
Cry of disbelief : OHNO
17
Capra film of 1948 : STATEOFTHEUNION
20
Mount in Edom : HOR
21
Prado offering : ARTE
22
Uneven, as a performance : SPOTTY
23
Pilsener holders : STEINS
25
Roman bailsman : PRAES
26
Certain red deer : SPAYS
28
"The only thing we have ___ ... ": F.D.R. : TOFEAR
30
Diva Lucrezia : BORI
31
Purport : TENOR
32
Physicist's measure : RAD
35
A cause of blackouts : ELECTRICALSTORM
39
U.S. heroes : GIS
40
Cover with laurels : HONOR
41
Burden : ONUS
42
Lake in Ore. : CRATER
44
Quarters for Scheherazade : HAREM
46
Swiss poet-philosopher : AMIEL
48
Cleave : ADHERE
50
Had to have : NEEDED
52
Charged atoms : IONS
53
Cached : HID
56
World forum : GENERALASSEMBLY
59
Verb suffix : ESCE
60
Linear measure : MILE
61
"Greasy" of football fame : NEALE
62
Appear : SEEM
63
Nolo contendere, e.g. : PLEA
64
Windigos : OGRES
Down
1
Minute amount : DASH
2
Within: Comb. form : ENTO
3
Food-thickening agent : AGAR
4
Court call : LET
5
Kind of port : TREATY
6
Moslem adviser : MUFTI
7
International compact : ENTENTECORDIALE
8
Ordinal suffix : ETH
9
Infants' toys, at times : TOES
10
Sleepy city in Texas? : SONORA
11
Bass of the lute family : CHITARRONE
12
Make ___ of (jot down) : ANOTE
13
Eason and Franklin of the Pats : TONYS
18
An anagram for rose : ORES
19
On one's ___ (destitute) : UPPERS
23
Ketch : SAIC
24
Underwater detector : SONAR
26
Offerings of 30 Across : SOLI
27
Seer's gift : PRESCIENCE
29
Ensue: Abbr. : FOL
30
Panhandle : BEG
31
Ringworm : TINEA
33
Calla lily : ARUM
34
Metric lgths. : DMS
36
Old German dollar : THALER
37
Go to seed : ROT
38
Hied : TORE
43
Convert into cash : REDEEM
44
Broodies : HENS
45
Poisonous chemical element: Comb. form : ARSENO
46
French seraphs : ANGES
47
Reagan Cabinet member : MEESE
49
Old Testament book : HOSEA
51
Like some cellars : DAMP
53
Flanged piece of metal : HBAR
54
A river at Rennes : ILLE
55
Treats with tinctures : DYES
57
Diamond girl : LIL
58
A "little woman" : MEG

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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