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Whitten
Whitten

New York Times, Friday, March 2, 1984

1-Across : "Missing" star

Author:
Whitten
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.17, Missing: { F J Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Whitten has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,533
Across
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"Missing" star : SPACEK
7
Do or make superficially : SCAMP
12
Bestial : BARBARIC
14
Mariner adjunct : CAMERA
16
Surmounted : OVERCAME
17
Singer Frankie : AVALON
18
Proportion : RATIO
19
Papal cape : ORALE
21
Quang ___, town in Vietnam : TRI
22
Like the U.N. : INT
23
Aphorism : GNOME
24
Tibetan gazelles : GOAS
25
Palpebral problem : STYE
27
He married Brice : ROSE
28
Rich dessert : TORTE
29
Orangutan : MIAS
31
Epitomes : SCHEMES
33
Weather problems : SMOGS
35
Waters : HOSES
36
Milk sugar : LACTOSE
38
Rival of Leto : HERA
39
Law partner : ORDER
40
Year in the reign of Decius : CCIL
42
Russian news agency : TASS
46
Stirs : ADOS
47
A noted Alexander : SHANA
48
Letter on a key : PHI
49
Wall St. name : DOW
50
Zorro's weapon : SWORD
51
Tropical resin : COPAL
53
Make possible : ENABLE
55
Flat : TENEMENT
57
Flowed like a brook : RILLED
58
"We always ___; Steady, boys ... ": Garrick : AREREADY
59
Beatty role: 1967 : CLYDE
60
Like a Hollywood night? : STARRY
Down
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Wise one : SAVANT
2
Attractive : PRETTY
3
Hillside shelter : ABRI
4
Unpleasant: Prefix : CACO
5
Time span : ERA
6
"Sayonara" costumes : KIMONOS
7
Garden pest : SCALE
8
Home, to Oop : CAVE
9
Doc bloc : AMA
10
The Velvet Fog : MELTORME
11
Assesses proportionately : PRORATES
12
Chessmaster Spassky : BORIS
13
Cavalla and pintado : CEROS
15
Aromatic seeds : ANISES
20
City on the Skunk : AMES
23
"Splendor in the ___" : GRASS
24
Makes an attack : GOESAT
26
Gushes onstage : EMOTES
28
Stepfather of Ull : THOR
30
Young Frankenstein's assistant : IGOR
32
Lobster claw, e.g. : CHELA
33
Cynical : SARDONIC
34
Star of "Ape" films : MCDOWALL
36
Warehouse employee : LOADER
37
Little Sir of songdom : ECHO
38
Deters : HINDERS
41
Magna ___ : CARTA
43
Seem : APPEAR
44
Ale-lemonade drink : SHANDY
45
Like a delta : SILTY
47
Wilander of tennis, e.g. : SWEDE
50
Logger's travois : SLED
51
Wax, in Taxco : CERA
52
One of Pétain's names : OMER
54
Robert ___, modern poet : BLY
56
Income outcome : NET

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

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