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Margaret W. Huskey
Margaret W. Huskey

New York Times, Tuesday, November 30, 1982

24-Across : Preserve with salt

Author:
Margaret W. Huskey
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { F H J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Margaret W. Huskey has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,075
Across
1
Like some TV shows : LIVE
5
Frolic : CAPER
10
Con man's ploy : SCAM
14
Algerian city : ORAN
15
Fla. orange-shipping center : OCALA
16
Hair or dead follower : LINE
17
Folk-tale heroine : GOLDILOCKS
19
Being, in Spain : ENTE
20
One-half and one-half : ONE
21
Beetles : DORS
22
Redact jointly : COEDIT
24
Preserve with salt : CORN
25
Shape by cutting : CARVE
26
His and hers items : TOWELS
29
Crumbled into particles : MOLDERED
32
Religious images : ICONS
33
Instrument for Yo-Yo Ma : CELLO
34
Misjudge : ERR
35
Pavilion : TENT
36
Meat pie : PASTY
37
Muse of history : CLIO
38
Stripling : LAD
39
Tapestry : ARRAS
40
Tree parts : BOLES
41
Forces; powers : ENERGIES
43
Go by again : REPASS
44
Rambles : ROAMS
45
Having no additives : PURE
46
Treat unfairly : ILLUSE
48
Languish : PINE
49
Northern ___ (apple) : SPY
52
Bank transaction : LOAN
53
Love notes : VALENTINES
56
Charitable : KIND
57
Fast : APACE
58
Bell the cat : DARE
59
Joining words : ANDS
60
Word before alligator : LATER
61
Mime : APER
Down
1
Word: Comb. form : LOGO
2
Imaginary curtain : IRON
3
Farewell, to Cato : VALE
4
Omega : END
5
Pigments : COLORS
6
Squirrel's tidbit : ACORN
7
Half boots : PACS
8
B.P.O.E. member : ELK
9
Mean; base : RASCALLY
10
Garment part : SLEEVE
11
Rags-to-riches story : CINDERELLA
12
Contrary : ANTI
13
Proper : MEET
18
False gods : IDOLS
23
Church calendar : ORDO
24
Coin : CENT
25
Young zebras : COLTS
26
Kind of search : TITLE
27
Arctic or Indian : OCEAN
28
Site of underground adventures : WONDERLAND
29
Plateaus : MESAS
30
Eponyms for a canal : ERIES
31
Rubbish : DROSS
33
Anxieties : CARES
36
First in time : PRIMEVAL
37
Priest's vestment : COPE
39
Eastern chiefs : AGAS
40
Flat hat : BERET
42
Short songs for groups : ROUNDS
43
Skate blade : RUNNER
45
Tune : PIECE
46
___ Chase : ILKA
47
Cut of pork : LOIN
48
Chart : PLAT
49
Start of a football play : SNAP
50
Father, in Fontainebleau : PERE
51
Belgian river : YSER
54
Psychiatrists' org. : APA
55
Mount in Crete : IDA

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

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