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David A. Scully
David A. Scully

New York Times, Saturday, May 24, 1980

39-Across : Tom Lea's brave bulls

Author:
David A. Scully
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 12, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
David A. Scully has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,155
Across
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Silly fool, in Soho : TWIT
5
Van Druten's "I Remember ___" : MAMA
9
Words of praise on a book jacket : BLURB
14
Madcap : RASH
15
"___ and Civilization": Marcuse : EROS
16
Logrolling tournament : ROLEO
17
He wrote: "A bit of talcum/Is always walcum" : OGDENNASH
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Author Cobb : IRVIN
20
Dickens : DEUCE
21
He wrote "Fables in Slang" : GEORGEADE
23
Great amount : REAMS
25
Ermine : STOAT
26
Erect : REAR
28
Involve necessarily : ENTAIL
32
She wrote "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" : ANITALOOS
37
Reel, e.g. : DANCE
38
One of Ghent's rivers : LYS
39
Tom Lea's brave bulls : TOROS
41
Snood : NET
42
Chick chatter : PEEPS
45
"Nize Baby" creator : MILTGROSS
48
Flank and New York : STEAKS
50
Lamb who wrote about a pig : ELIA
51
Files : RASPS
54
Sequence : ORDER
57
He wrote about a jumping frog : MARKTWAIN
61
Palls : TIRES
63
" ... nothing like ___" : ADAME
64
Creator of Ah Sin : BRETHARTE
66
Indian lute : SITAR
67
Let out surreptitiously : LEAK
68
Hammett heroine : NORA
69
Carbines : STENS
70
" ... ___ the fray" : ONTO
71
Turkey follower : TROT
Down
1
Walked : TROD
2
Stake : WAGER
3
" ... tribute to whom tribute ___": Romans : ISDUE
4
It's sometimes put before the horse : THECART
5
Kingsley's "___ in White" : MEN
6
Part of a Kipling line : ARAG
7
Asch book : MOSES
8
___ as a pistol : ASHOT
9
Robin Hood, e.g. : BRIGAND
10
Swit of TV : LORETTA
11
Nicaraguan group : ULVA
12
Publisher Whitelaw ___ (1837-1912) : REID
13
Costa or scapula : BONE
18
Hercules-vs.-lion site : NEMEA
22
Caviar : ROE
24
Book by Herbert Gold : SALT
27
Woolf's "A ___ of One's Own" : ROOM
29
___ Domini : ANNO
30
Desserts : ICES
31
Some tennis plays : LETS
32
Site of the Jungfrau : ALPS
33
Muscovite's refusal : NYET
34
Listener's phrase : ISEE
35
Mouth: Comb. form : ORI
36
Dover ___ : SOLE
40
Capital of Manche : STLO
43
He wrote "Montcalm and Wolfe" : PARKMAN
44
Fratianne and Babilonia : SKATERS
46
Band for holding a saddle : GIRTH
47
Glowing : RADIANT
49
Compass pt. : SSW
52
Casals : PABLO
53
Temptress : SIREN
55
Lapse : ERROR
56
Backward: Prefix : RETRO
57
Mozart's "Coronation ___" : MASS
58
Mine access : ADIT
59
Birth or death follower : RATE
60
Without admixture : NEAT
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Install in office : SEAT
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Ref's decision : TKO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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