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John H. Hales
John H. Hales

New York Times, Wednesday, November 14, 1984

42-Across : Defames

Author:
John H. Hales
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
John H. Hales has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,790
Across
1
Stinger : WASP
5
Capital of Senegal : DAKAR
10
Fish's means of respiration : GILL
14
___ about (approximately) : ONOR
15
Yawning : AGAPE
16
Drunken cry, of old : EVOE
17
Case for sewers : ETUI
18
Property men : GRIPS
19
Nothing, in Madrid : NADA
20
Carpet edge : SELVAGE
22
Reached the plucking point : RIPENED
24
Pulitzer novelist: 1958 : AGEE
25
River of Hesse : EDER
26
Overshoe : GAITER
29
Furniture style : SHERATON
33
Bavarian stream : ILLER
34
Nine-millimeter carbine : STEN
35
Timber denizen : LOBO
36
Untidy one : SLOB
37
Barely enough : SCANT
38
Tints and tones : HUES
39
Actress Daly : TYNE
40
Parcel adjunct : CORD
41
Inventor Samuel : MORSE
42
Defames : SLANDERS
44
Maidens : LASSES
45
Tarzen's friend : JANE
46
Pepper pot, e.g. : SOUP
47
___ Lakes, trio in N.Y. : SARANAC
50
Bore : CALIBER
54
Name in cheeses : EDAM
55
Talked endlessly : RANON
57
Tucker out : TIRE
58
Small S.A. monkey : TITI
59
"Goodnight, ___" : IRENE
60
Related : AKIN
61
Film comic Laurel : STAN
62
Not so commonplace : ODDER
63
Season of penitence : LENT
Down
1
Difficulties : WOES
2
Preceding: Prefix : ANTE
3
Kind of food or brother : SOUL
4
Goldie Hawn film: 1980 : PRIVATEBENJAMIN
5
Macbeth's weapon : DAGGER
6
Acquiesce : AGREE
7
Chiang ___-shek : KAI
8
Nab : APPREHEND
9
Nonmigratory bird or beast : RESIDENT
10
Popular soap opera : GENERALHOSPITAL
11
A czar : IVAN
12
Ore concentration : LODE
13
Plumbum : LEAD
21
Dyer's apparatus : AGER
23
Word with diem or capita : PER
26
Main points : GISTS
27
Garlic chemical : ALLYL
28
Actress Massey : ILONA
29
These are seen after a clout : STARS
30
Junkets : TOURS
31
Chubby : OBESE
32
Features often counted : NOSES
34
Game record : SCORECARD
37
Dramatic outline : SCENARIO
41
Manhandle : MAUL
43
" ... from ___ even to Beersheba" : DAN
44
Temporary replacement : LOANER
46
High-tea delicacy : SCONE
47
Square-dance figures : SETS
48
Underground entrance : ADIT
49
Pro ___ (proportionally) : RATA
51
A wheel : BIKE
52
One of the Waltons : ERIN
53
Schism : RENT
56
Novelist Buntline : NED

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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