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Arnold Moss
Arnold Moss

New York Times, Tuesday, February 17, 1981

42-Across : Scopes trial prosecutor

Author:
Arnold Moss
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { K P Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 8, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has duplicate clues.
Arnold Moss has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,424
Across
1
Prefix with god or john : DEMI
5
New Delhi nobles : RANAS
10
Sometime forerunner to riches : RAGS
14
Oil-rich sultanate : OMAN
15
Flooded : AWASH
16
Smell ___ (suspect) : ARAT
17
Essence : GIST
18
O'Neill's "___ Millions" : MARCO
19
"Lover, Come Back ___," 1928 song : TOME
20
Radio program of the 30's : THEMARCHOFTIME
23
Get under one's skin : RILE
24
Character once in 3 Down : RADAR
25
Cat variety : MANX
27
It flows in a Burns poem : AFTON
30
Ali ___ : BABA
31
O.T. man rebuked by an ass : BALAAM
33
Farrow : MIA
36
Radio program of the 40's : BULLDOGDRUMMOND
39
French business abbr. : CIE
40
Concurs : AGREES
41
What Antony sought to borrow : EARS
42
Scopes trial prosecutor : BRYAN
43
One of six anagrams for east : SATE
44
"Barnaby Jones" hero : EBSEN
47
Actor in "Brian's Song" : CAAN
49
Radio program of the 30's : JOHNSOTHERWIFE
55
Discord goddess : ERIS
56
Churchill's "___ England Slept" : WHILE
57
Shade of green : NILE
59
"___ nome," Verdi aria : CARO
60
One-time lady : EADIE
61
Remnant of the Cheshire Cat : GRIN
62
Not now : THEN
63
Super-bargain : STEAL
64
Kind of pearl or bed : SEED
Down
1
Kuvasz, e.g. : DOG
2
Send out : EMIT
3
Alda's program : MASH
4
Kind of revenue : INTERNAL
5
Pertaining to a branch : RAMAL
6
Sentient : AWARE
7
Undercover cop : NARC
8
Author of "A Passage in the Night" : ASCH
9
Chick chaser : SHOO
10
Wickerwork material : RATTAN
11
Skunk cabbage : AROID
12
Microgram : GAMMA
13
Bovine : STEER
21
Tom of the early westerns : MIX
22
Psychoanalyst-author Erich : FROMM
25
Where Lahaina is : MAUI
26
Competent : ABLE
27
"Speak for yourself" man : ALDEN
28
Cab's tab : FARE
29
Greek letters : TAUS
30
U.K. communications group : BBC
31
Hobgoblin : BOGY
32
Taj Mahal site : AGRA
33
Ditch at a ducal domicile : MOAT
34
Concerning : INRE
35
TV commercials : ADS
37
Mends socks : DARNS
38
Definitions : MEANINGS
42
"Soap" spinoff : BENSON
43
Sometime musical instrument : SAW
44
Expel : EJECT
45
Idaho senator from 1907 to 1940 : BORAH
46
Actress Talia : SHIRE
47
Rosalind's companion : CELIA
48
Whirling : AREEL
50
Is in debt : OWES
51
First or third "T" in "TW3" : THAT
52
"O tiger's heart wrapp'd in a woman's ___!": Shak. : HIDE
53
Bounce : FIRE
54
Author Wiesel : ELIE
58
"Howards ___," Forster novel : END

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

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