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Mary Virginia Orna
Mary Virginia Orna

New York Times, Wednesday, March 14, 1979

31-Across : Of the number eight

Author:
Mary Virginia Orna
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { F J V X }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Mary Virginia Orna has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,718
Across
1
After-shave powder : TALC
5
Latches : HASPS
10
Recorded proceedings : ACTA
14
Poet translated by FitzGerald : OMAR
15
Arm of the sea : INLET
16
Rent : TORN
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Like a crazy hombre : LOCO
18
Ringo the drummer : STARR
19
Who or which : THAT
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Word with circle or parade : DRESS
22
Cape of ___ : GOODHOPE
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Opposite of psyche : SOMA
27
Grand ___, Evangeline's home : PRE
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Valley between ranges : LOWLAND
31
Of the number eight : OCTAL
35
Slots spot : RENO
36
Old cars : REOS
38
Maine campus town : ORONO
39
Not on the same wavelength : ATCROSSPURPOSES
42
Fungi : MOLDS
43
Honshu monastery : TERA
44
Remitted : SENT
45
Bumbling : INEPT
46
Upbraids : YELLSAT
48
Extensions on campus : UES
50
Raise : REAR
51
State in NW Brazil : AMAZONAS
56
___ vin, chicken dish : COQAU
60
Singer Joan : BAEZ
61
Middle-ear bone : INCUS
64
Charley had one : AUNT
65
Squiggle : CURL
66
Irish goblin : POOKA
67
Emulate an epicure : DINE
68
Dark-colored plum : SLOE
69
Response to a knock : ENTER
70
Blackpool and Baden-Baden : SPAS
Down
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"Twice-___ Tales" : TOLD
2
Cupid, in art : AMOR
3
Cluny product : LACE
4
Farrar specialty : CROSSWORDPUZZLE
5
"God shed ___ grace on thee" : HIS
6
Member of a colony : ANT
7
Worthless matter : SLAG
8
But, in Barcelona : PERO
9
Razor accessory : STROP
10
Facing a crucial decision : ATTHECROSSROADS
11
Silver salmon : COHO
12
It guards a green : TRAP
13
Payment for a hand : ANTE
21
Money in Lima : SOL
23
Relative of a twerp : DROOP
25
Father of Romulus and Remus : MARS
26
"___ of robins in her hair" : ANEST
28
Pretend : LETON
29
"Mon ___," 1958 Tati film : ONCLE
30
One of Doc's companions : DOPEY
32
Kipling's "From Sea ___" : TOSEA
33
Concerning : ANENT
34
Mislaid : LOST
35
Branches : RAMI
37
Not so chancy : SURER
40
Bone: Comb. form : OSTEO
41
Abnormal respiratory sound : RALE
47
Resinous substance : LAC
49
Woodcock's relative : SNIPE
51
"Sesame Street" subject : ABCS
52
Heavy hammer : MAUL
53
Prefix on an air letter : AERO
54
Ever's partner : ANON
55
Inverness inhabitant : SCOT
57
Witticism : QUIP
58
Tolstoy heroine : ANNA
59
Shoshoneans : UTES
62
Luau instrument, for short : UKE
63
Patriotic org. : SAR

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

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