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James R. Burns
James R. Burns

New York Times, Tuesday, March 25, 1986

41-Across : U.S. chain-store pioneer

Author:
James R. Burns
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
James R. Burns has 36 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,286
Across
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Building craftsman : MASON
6
Kind of V.P. : ASST
10
"Two Years Before the ___": Dana : MAST
14
Gladden : ELATE
15
Ill-humored : SOUR
16
Italian wine center : ASTI
17
Stream deposits : SILTS
18
"The American Language" author : HLMENCKEN
20
Fortas or Burrows : ABE
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Shoe insert : TREE
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Brags about : BOASTS
24
Figures of speech : SIMILES
26
Prepare for planting : PLOW
27
Clear : NET
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Godsend : BLESSING
32
Creator of Bertie Wooster : PGWODEHOUSE
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Kind of cross : TAU
37
Verve : ELAN
38
Food scrap : ORT
39
Minus : LESS
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Part of the Old World: Abbr. : EUR
41
U.S. chain-store pioneer : FWWOOLWORTH
45
Puts back in good order : RESTORES
47
___ de vie : EAU
48
Tax shelters : IRAS
49
Pilchard : SARDINE
53
Sick abed : LAIDUP
56
Sage or parsley : HERB
57
Gypsy man or boy : ROM
58
Pro football's Juice : OJSIMPSON
60
Rent out : LEASE
62
Auction : SALE
63
"I'm all ___" : EARS
64
Become a participant : ENTER
65
___ bien : TRES
66
Unit of force : DYNE
67
Down at the heels : SEEDY
Down
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Flat-topped hills : MESAS
2
"___ Ike": Lardner : ALIBI
3
Hawthorne's birthplace : SALEM
4
Giants Hall of Fame member : OTT
5
Snuggled down : NESTLED
6
What the phoenix rises from : ASHES
7
One and only : SOLE
8
"Cogito ergo ___": Descartes : SUM
9
High voices : TREBLES
10
Long-tailed parrots : MACAWS
11
Invites : ASKS
12
Proofreader's note : STET
13
Containers : TINS
19
Lasso end : NOOSE
22
Neural network : RETE
25
Party to : INON
26
Disney canine : PLUTO
28
Golfer Julius : BOROS
29
Roman road : ITER
30
Tweed Ring's artistic foe : NAST
31
Speak effusively : GUSH
32
Jury member : PEER
33
Adhesive : GLUE
34
States of hostility : WARS
35
Actress Sally Ann : HOWES
39
Gaudy : LOUD
41
Public meeting : FORUM
42
Bundled up : WRAPPED
43
English humorist: 1812-88 : LEAR
44
Does bird calls : WARBLES
46
Makes neat : TIDIES
49
Feel intuitively : SENSE
50
Fit to be tied : IRATE
51
Poked about : NOSED
52
Kind of cloth or wheel : EMERY
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"The ___ World": Doyle : LOST
54
Not shut tightly : AJAR
55
Man, for one : ISLE
56
Clavicor : HORN
59
Authority : SAY
61
Lansing-to-Flint dir. : ENE

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

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