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Virginia L. Yates
Virginia L. Yates

New York Times, Monday, February 24, 1986

61-Across : A Gershwin

Author:
Virginia L. Yates
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F J Q X }, Scrabble score: 310 (avg 1.66)
Open Squares: 58, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Virginia L. Yates has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,257
Across
1
Get-up-and-go : ZIP
4
Challenge taker : DARER
9
Grab forcibly : WREST
14
Altar answer : IDO
15
Betel palm : ARECA
16
Auburn dye : HENNA
17
Derive : GET
18
"You Are ___," tune from "The Broadway Melody of 1936" : MYLUCKYSTAR
20
Print tint : SEPIA
22
Arthur of the courts : ASHE
23
"QB VII" author : URIS
24
Beginning : ONSET
26
Nail polish : ENAMEL
28
Tune from "Good News": 1927 : LUCKYINLOVE
30
Zhivago's beloved : LARA
31
Allhallows ___ : EVE
32
Bracken or Albert : EDDIE
36
Melody : AIR
37
Plant for ground cover : CREEPER
40
Noisy squabble : ROW
41
Pipe : BRIAR
43
Belle of the coming-out ball : DEB
44
Corduroy's rib : WALE
45
Tune from "On the Town": 1944 : LUCKYTOBEME
49
Bold : BRAZEN
51
Mt. ___, Tenn. : UNAKA
52
War god : ARES
53
Transaction : DEAL
55
Bumppo of "Leatherstocking Tales" : NATTY
58
Tune from "Guys and Dolls": 1950 : LUCKBEALADY
61
A Gershwin : IRA
62
Square pillars : ANTAE
63
Fargo of songdom : DONNA
64
Stitch : SEW
65
U.S. suffragist Lucy : STONE
66
___ example (be a model) : SETAN
67
Commandments number : TEN
Down
1
Angles off : ZIGS
2
___ fixe : IDEE
3
Medley : POTPOURRI
4
Richly patterned fabric : DAMASK
5
Ending for mission or vision : ARY
6
Kin : RELATIVE
7
Old French coins : ECUS
8
Leah's sister : RACHEL
9
Interrogator's word : WHY
10
Began again : RESUMED
11
Between: Fr. : ENTRE
12
Slow-paced one : SNAIL
13
Gobs : TARS
19
Game of chance : KENO
21
S.A. Indian : INCA
25
Looker : EYER
27
Assert : AVER
28
Den : LAIR
29
Indigent : NEEDY
30
M.I.T. room : LAB
33
Ibsen or Inge : DRAMATIST
34
Hercules' captive : IOLE
35
Member of the fold : EWE
37
Santa ___, Arg. : CRUZ
38
Querulous : PETULANT
39
Black, to Byron : EBON
42
Nome native, e.g. : ALASKAN
44
Maori hen : WEKA
46
Grant title to : CEDE
47
Prepares dough : KNEADS
48
Multi-trunked tree : BANYAN
49
Heaviest part : BRUNT
50
Right-hand page : RECTO
52
"Oh, woe!" : ALAS
54
Healing plant : ALOE
56
Genealogical chart : TREE
57
Display drowsiness : YAWN
59
Spelling event : BEE
60
Geneticist's concern : DNA

Answer summary:
5 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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