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Maloney
Maloney

New York Times, Monday, May 11, 1981

68-Across : Let it stand

Author:
Maloney
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { J K Q X }, Scrabble score: 262 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has both left-right and up-down symmetry.
Maloney has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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O
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M
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O
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,507
Across
1
Explosive device : BOMB
5
Central; pivotal : POLAR
10
Brother of Faisal : SAUD
14
Item sometimes containing cottonseed oil : OLEO
15
Water conduit : FLUME
16
Raw-silk color : ECRU
17
Brown a roast : SEAR
18
Greeks' modern name for Greece : ELLAS
19
Jenny wren's home : NEST
20
July 4, e.g. : NATIONALHOLIDAY
23
Mother Seton was one : NUN
24
Zodiacal sign : LEO
25
Style of shoe : WINGTIP
29
Median's kin : AVERAGE
33
Rival of Apollo for Marpessa's love : IDAS
34
Feed on herbage : GRAZE
36
Slovenly person : SLOB
37
Cover : LID
38
"Spring ahead" time in N.Y.C. : EDT
39
Lure for Spanish explorers : ORO
40
Choice meat cut : LOIN
42
Something of value : ASSET
44
Horse of a certain color : ROAN
45
Trails of light : STREAMS
47
In the main : CHIEFLY
49
Golfer Jane Blalock is one : PRO
50
Decorative vase : URN
51
The Cougars from Pullman : WASHINGTONSTATE
60
___ Stanley Gardner : ERLE
61
Item in adenology : GLAND
62
Lamb's pen name : ELIA
63
C.P. or Phoebe : SNOW
64
Set of furniture : SUITE
65
Frees from : RIDS
66
Drags : TOWS
67
Jon Vickers is one : TENOR
68
Let it stand : STET
Down
1
Petty officer, for short : BOSN
2
Genus of olives : OLEA
3
Good source of protein : MEAT
4
Chips created by carpenters : BORINGS
5
Money in Mainz : PFENNIG
6
Spanish dish of meat and vegetables : OLLA
7
Soothe : LULL
8
Maidservant, Oriental style : AMAH
9
Determination : RESOLVE
10
Those about to graduate : SENIORS
11
Made a hole-in-one : ACED
12
Dipper's milieu, for short : URSA
13
Chore : DUTY
21
Not at home : OUT
22
Grant or Radziwill : LEE
25
Legal documents : WILLS
26
Simpleton : IDIOT
27
Opposite of zenith : NADIR
28
Exert force : PRESS
29
Early inhabitant of Mexico City : AZTEC
30
Distant; reserved : ALOOF
31
Goat antelope : GORAL
32
Lustrous black : EBONY
35
Sales pitches : ADS
41
Sibling's sons : NEPHEWS
42
In the midst of : AMONGST
43
Celestial clapper : THUNDER
44
Tenants : RENTERS
46
Nickname for Onassis : ARI
48
D.C. destination of some income : IRS
51
"Go ___, young man" : WEST
52
Italian river : ARNO
53
Traffic sign : SLOW
54
Scrapbook accessory : GLUE
55
Tinfoil on the back of a mirror : TAIN
56
Preposition : ONTO
57
Came to rest : ALIT
58
Sometime follower of spring : TIDE
59
One of Kipling's "twain" : EAST

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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