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Charles Engler
Charles Engler

New York Times, Thursday, April 10, 1986

24-Across : Afternoon socials

Author:
Charles Engler
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { B J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Charles Engler has 13 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,302
Across
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TV sitcom hit: 1949-56 : MAMA
5
Darnel : TARE
9
He stabbed Caesar first : CASCA
14
"___! I loved you best": Sheffield : ALAS
15
Brazilian macaws : ARAS
16
Blanched : ASHEN
17
Tent beds : COTS
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Mischievous urchins : IMPS
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Where Duccio painted : SIENA
20
Seagoing singer? : ETHELWATERS
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Chi follower : PSI
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Afternoon socials : TEAS
25
A founder of aerodynamics : EIFFEL
27
Half Moon skipper : HUDSON
30
African trek : SAFARI
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A.P. rival : UPI
33
Epiphany trio : MAGI
34
Ethereal : AERY
37
Heaps : TONS
39
One of the Bermudas : PAGET
40
Urban blight : SLUM
41
Cinch : SNAP
42
Friends, in Bathgate : EMES
43
Mil. award : DSC
44
Deter : HINDER
46
Awn : ARISTA
49
Toulouse-Lautrec specialty : POSTER
51
Kind of glass : SPUN
52
Oh! in Offenbach : ACH
53
Sylvan syncopator? : WOODYHERMAN
59
Put away : STORE
61
Portrayer of Zola in a 1937 movie : MUNI
62
Wash feeder : OUSE
63
Gogol's "___ Bulba" : TARAS
64
Footless creature : APOD
65
E-flat saxophone : ALTO
66
Dexterous : ADEPT
67
Warren Beatty movie: 1981 : REDS
68
Bishop's subordinate : DEAN
Down
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Symbol of authority : MACE
2
"Thanks ___!" : ALOT
3
Schoolroom subj. : MATH
4
Black-ink entries : ASSETS
5
Formosa, today : TAIWAN
6
Slugger Tony : ARMAS
7
Engrossed : RAPT
8
Verb form for Virgil : ESSE
9
A source of cinnamon : CASSIA
10
"___ was saying" : ASI
11
Meadowlands maestro? : SHEPFIELDS
12
Perfume an altar : CENSE
13
"For want of ___ ... " : ANAIL
21
Zodiacal cat : LEO
22
Alter a jacket : REFIT
26
Angelico and Diavolo : FRAS
27
Wickiups : HUTS
28
Well versed in : UPON
29
Singer on the strand? : DINAHSHORE
30
More judicious : SAGER
31
Iron and Ice : AGES
33
Ball role : MAME
35
Reddish brown : RUST
36
Village People hit: 1979 : YMCA
38
Image's partner : SPIT
39
Card game : PEDRO
45
Most fashionable : NEWEST
46
Pomologists' pests : APHIDS
47
Poet Housman's burden : RUE
48
Raid : INROAD
49
Trattoria treat : PASTA
50
Group of eight : OCTAD
51
Church council : SYNOD
54
Foe converted by Mohammed : OMAR
55
Cat's-paw : DUPE
56
Lounging slipper : MULE
57
A predecessor of Boomer : ASTA
58
Kind of lamp : NEON
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Chew the fat : RAP

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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