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Eugene T. Maleska
Eugene T. Maleska

New York Times, Friday, January 6, 1984

39-Across : C.P.A.'s item

Author:
Eugene T. Maleska
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Eugene T. Maleska has 411 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,477
Across
1
Breathless : AGASP
6
Goya's duchess : ALBA
10
Latin intensive : IPSE
14
Ghanaian export : COCOA
15
Caron role : LILI
16
Area under a poll : NAPE
17
Okla. city : ALTUS
18
Overlord, e.g. : OPERATION
20
Fighting words over Oregon: 1844 : FIFTYFOURFORTY
22
Places for clodhoppers : FEET
23
Kipling's "Drums of the Fore and ___" : AFT
24
Kowalski's wife : STELLA
27
Like a Japanese fish dish : UNCOOKED
32
Part of TV : TELE
33
Dependent : RELIER
35
Harriman nickname : AVE
36
Live : EXIST
38
Polk's party in 1845 : INS
39
C.P.A.'s item : DEBIT
41
Cambodian's neighbor : LAO
42
Timorous : AFRAID
45
Violin attachment : MUTE
46
Caribbean land masses : ANTILLES
48
Like a small egg : OVULAR
50
Historian Marshall : SLA
51
Indigo : ANIL
52
What 20 Across might have caused : WARWITHENGLAND
59
Sidney Howard play: 1933 : ALIENCORN
60
Practice for Peter Nero : ETUDE
62
Ring the bell : TOLL
63
Soprano Gluck : ALMA
64
Jerk's concoctions : SODAS
65
Uri hero : TELL
66
Clean a brier : REAM
67
Three-pipped sides of dice : TREYS
Down
1
Here, in Honduras : ACA
2
John Cook's game : GOLF
3
Playbill heading : ACTI
4
Eggy dishes : SOUFFLES
5
A medium used by Degas : PASTEL
6
In the air : ALOFT
7
Famed eighth-century Chinese poet : LIPO
8
Cordon ___ (top chef) : BLEU
9
Annual Dayton event : AIRRACE
10
Wholly : INTOTO
11
Full-house part : PAIR
12
Notice : SPOT
13
Counting-out word : EENY
19
Supply : AFFORD
21
"Very good" period in songdom : YEAR
24
Commemorative slab : STELA
25
U.S. citizen since 1845 : TEXAN
26
Novelist who was 26 in 1845 : ELIOT
27
Forearm bones : ULNAS
28
Kind of decree : NISI
29
Afghanistan's capital : KABUL
30
Patti LuPone role : EVITA
31
Sidetrack : DETER
34
Douglas Hyde's land : EIRE
37
"___ the Saddle," Wayne film : TALLIN
40
Rival of a sort : EMULATOR
43
Freight-train unit : FLATCAR
44
Big Ben sound : DONG
47
"God is and all ___": Whittier : ISWELL
49
Most repulsive : VILEST
51
Where Hue is : ANNAM
52
Reagan's first Sec. of the Interior : WATT
53
Tub plant : ALOE
54
Brooklet : RILL
55
Lair : HOLE
56
Writer Bombeck : ERMA
57
Hosiery shade : NUDE
58
See 18 Across : DDAY
61
Mountain winder : ESS

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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