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Stanley Newman
Stanley Newman

New York Times, Saturday, May 5, 1984

24-Across : Sews up

Author:
Stanley Newman
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.37, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 308 (avg 1.64)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Stanley Newman has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 23 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,597
Across
1
End of a counting rhyme : FATHEN
7
Kind of orange : NAVEL
12
Place for an aglet : SHOELACE
15
Mini-poem : ODELET
17
Secular or civil : TEMPORAL
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Galveston sight : TANKER
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Lout : OAF
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Rabble-rouser's forte : DEMAGOGUERY
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Malayan transportation : PROA
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Sews up : SUTURES
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Inventory : STOCK
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Rig, for short : SEMI
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Lingerie item : BRA
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Furnish : LEND
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Fog : PEASOUP
36
Speech teachers : RHETORS
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Broadcaster : STREWER
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Tumbler : ACROBAT
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Gridiron measure : YARD
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How come? : WHY
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Fifth-day creation : FOWL
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Cotton-spinning machines : MULES
49
In seclusion : RETIRED
52
Just : MERE
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Reckless : HARUMSCARUM
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Fled : RAN
58
Garland for a poet laureate : ANADEM
59
Neil Simon, e.g. : COMEDIST
61
Brewer from Toledo : TERESA
62
Poker pest : KIBITZER
63
Useful plastic : SARAN
64
Cantankerous : ORNERY
Down
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Settings for Steichen : FSTOPS
2
What the Tin Man wanted : AHEART
3
Nonsense : TOMFOOLERY
4
Drill sergeant's word : HEP
5
Hypothetical force : ELOD
6
Breathing apparatus : NARES
7
Unwanted attention : NOTORIETY
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Saw : ADAGE
9
Mother of Aeneas : VENUS
10
Sommer : ELKE
11
Glance from Groucho : LEER
13
Snub-nosed: Fr. : CAMUS
14
Buoy : ELATE
16
Go for it : TRY
21
Sidney Smith's creations : GUMPS
23
Vinegary: Comb. form : ACETO
26
Dresser need : KNOB
28
Expurgate : BOWDLERIZE
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Actress McClanahan : RUE
30
The "cruellest" mo. : APR
32
Blueprint person : DRAFTSMAN
34
Khachaturian : ARAM
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Whey : SERUM
36
Untrained : RAW
37
Presidential monogram : HCH
38
Firmly restrained : STOIC
44
Torture : WRACK
45
Poet-political activist Jones : LEROI
47
Something to clap at school : ERASER
48
Watch : SENTRY
49
Not so polite : RUDER
50
Ancient city in Syria : EMESA
51
Disneyland denizen : DUMBO
53
Castor or tile : HAT
54
"___ generally shammin'... ": Kipling : ANES
55
"Ta-___-Boom-De-Ré" : RARA
56
Golda : MEIR
60
Keep after sch. : DTN

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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