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Nikki Tenfelde
Nikki Tenfelde

New York Times, Thursday, February 5, 1981

20-Across : A television "must"

Author:
Nikki Tenfelde
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Min Word Len: 4, Missing: { F J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Nikki Tenfelde has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,412
Across
1
Eccentric : CRANK
6
Drop heavily : PLOP
10
Ford : WADE
14
Denizen of the Everglades : HERON
15
Soprano Stevens : RISE
16
Golden calf, e.g. : IDOL
17
Habituate : INURE
18
Leisure : EASE
19
Variable star : NOVA
20
A television "must" : COMMERCIAL
22
Spoilage allowance : TRET
23
Dregs of wine : LEES
24
Rigid : TENSE
25
Not fem. or neut. : MASC
29
Surrogate parent : ADOPTER
32
Eight: Comb. form : OCTO
33
Dynamos : GENERATORS
37
Hone : SHARPEN
39
Of the shallow-water region on a seacoast : NERITIC
40
Bents : TENDENCIES
42
Isinglass : MICA
43
Designs : INTENTS
44
A social sci. : ECON
45
Rebuke : SCOLD
48
Form, as a storm : BREW
50
Make like a snake : COIL
51
Famous violin-maker : STRADIVARI
57
Skillful : ABLE
58
O'Neill's "A Touch of the ___" : POET
59
Derring-do : VALOR
60
Rabbit or Fox : BRER
61
Letters before cee : ABEE
62
Overact : EMOTE
63
Girl's name meaning "princess" : SARA
64
Cincinnati nine : REDS
65
What machs measure : SPEED
Down
1
Last word : CHIC
2
Tourist center in the West : RENO
3
Calla lily, for one : ARUM
4
Average : NORM
5
Prepare to be dubbed : KNEEL
6
Pecking-order right : PRECEDENCE
7
Close relationship : LIAISON
8
Greek mountain : OSSA
9
Uncover : PEEL
10
Hiemal period : WINTERTIME
11
Embellish : ADORN
12
Opposite of hawks : DOVES
13
Exhilarate : ELATE
21
Chemical substance : REAGENT
24
Dash : TEAR
25
The majority : MOST
26
Word with head or back : ACHE
27
Getz of music : STAN
28
Group of mountain ranges : CORDILLERA
30
Imbues; steeps : PENETRATES
31
Braided; plaited : TRESSED
34
Auditory : OTIC
35
Carty of baseball : RICO
36
Look over hastily : SCAN
38
Remain undecided : PEND
41
Intermarry : INBREED
45
Strikebreakers : SCABS
46
Hooded snake : COBRA
47
Type of cargo ship : OILER
49
Shakespeare's merry group : WIVES
51
Bandy words : SPAR
52
"The best is yet ___": Browning : TOBE
53
Coquette : VAMP
54
Drug source : ALOE
55
Mechanical routine : ROTE
56
Incensed : IRED

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

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