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Vincent L. Osborne
Vincent L. Osborne

New York Times, Monday, November 6, 1978

64-Across : City of the Ptolemies

Author:
Vincent L. Osborne
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q W Y }, Scrabble score: 299 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Vincent L. Osborne has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,590
Across
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Ali, the woodchopper : BABA
5
"___ Be" (Beatles song) : LETIT
10
Macadamize : PAVE
14
Release from bondage : EMANCIPATE
16
Pernicious : EVIL
17
"Star Wars" villain : DARTHVADER
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Brooklet : RILL
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Make beloved : ENDEAR
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Captain Hook's adversary : PAN
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Legal offenses : MALA
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The common people : DEMOS
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Falcon's cousin : KITE
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Copper : CENT
29
Roman sun god : SOL
30
___ system : METRIC
32
Circa : ABOUT
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De Mille of Hollywood : CECIL
36
___ trice (quickly) : INA
37
Make lustrous : FURBISH
39
Animals domesticated in Peru : ALPACAS
41
Popular shade source : ELM
42
This could grow on you, Mr. : BEARD
44
Leningrad's ordeal: 1941-44 : SIEGE
45
Language of Poles, Czechs et al. : SLAVIC
47
Vessel for couples : ARK
49
Educator's deg. : MSED
50
Mother of Romulus and Remus : ILIA
51
Essen product : STEEL
53
Line a ship with planking : CEIL
54
Save : BUT
55
Captures with a rope : NOOSES
60
Dix's follower : ONZE
61
One of Robin Hood's men : ALLANADALE
63
Summertime treats : ICES
64
City of the Ptolemies : ALEXANDRIA
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For fear that : LEST
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Like a packhorse in action : LADEN
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Locale of "The King and I" : SIAM
Down
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Father of English history : BEDE
2
"___ for All Seasons" : AMAN
3
Celtic poet : BARD
4
Initial stake : ANTE
5
Bibliothécaire's concern : LIVRES
6
D.C. ecology group : EPA
7
Polliwog : TADPOLE
8
Shrubs with small white flowers : ITEAS
9
Graceful sea bird : TERN
10
Student driver's possession : PERMIT
11
Earhart, Anne Lindbergh et al. : AVIATRICES
12
Feudal tenure : VILLEINAGE
13
Fitzgerald : ELLA
15
N'Djamena is its capital : CHAD
23
Coffee variety : MOCHA
24
Seaweeds that furnish iodine : KELPS
25
Bistros : CAFES
26
High spirits : EBULLIENCE
27
Stops fluctuations, as in prices : NORMALIZES
28
Vessel for "three men" : TUB
30
Unit of wire thickness : MIL
31
Boxed : CASED
33
Fibula's neighbor : TIBIA
35
Training group : CADRE
38
Dry, as wine : SEC
40
Intent : AIM
43
Disconcerted : RATTLED
46
Most repulsive : VILEST
48
Author of "American Diplomacy: 1900-1950" : KENNAN
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Roman dictator: 82-79 B.C. : SULLA
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Shylock offering : LOAN
53
Wind : COIL
54
Ancient Semitic deity : BAAL
56
Probability ratio : ODDS
57
Ahmedabad garment : SARI
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"London Magazine" pseudonym: 1820 : ELIA
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Miner's vein : SEAM
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Paul Bunyan tool : AXE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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