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Stanley Newman
Stanley Newman

New York Times, Saturday, May 5, 1984

64-Across : Cantankerous

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
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End of a counting rhyme : FATHEN
7
Kind of orange : NAVEL
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Place for an aglet : SHOELACE
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Mini-poem : ODELET
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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
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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
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In seclusion : RETIRED
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Just : MERE
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Reckless : HARUMSCARUM
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Fled : RAN
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Garland for a poet laureate : ANADEM
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Neil Simon, e.g. : COMEDIST
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Brewer from Toledo : TERESA
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Poker pest : KIBITZER
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Useful plastic : SARAN
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Cantankerous : ORNERY
Down
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Settings for Steichen : FSTOPS
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What the Tin Man wanted : AHEART
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Nonsense : TOMFOOLERY
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Drill sergeant's word : HEP
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Hypothetical force : ELOD
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Breathing apparatus : NARES
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Unwanted attention : NOTORIETY
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Saw : ADAGE
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Mother of Aeneas : VENUS
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Sommer : ELKE
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Glance from Groucho : LEER
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Snub-nosed: Fr. : CAMUS
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Buoy : ELATE
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Go for it : TRY
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Sidney Smith's creations : GUMPS
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Vinegary: Comb. form : ACETO
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Dresser need : KNOB
28
Expurgate : BOWDLERIZE
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Actress McClanahan : RUE
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The "cruellest" mo. : APR
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Blueprint person : DRAFTSMAN
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Khachaturian : ARAM
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Whey : SERUM
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Untrained : RAW
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Presidential monogram : HCH
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Firmly restrained : STOIC
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Torture : WRACK
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Poet-political activist Jones : LEROI
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Something to clap at school : ERASER
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Watch : SENTRY
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Not so polite : RUDER
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Ancient city in Syria : EMESA
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Disneyland denizen : DUMBO
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Castor or tile : HAT
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"___ generally shammin'... ": Kipling : ANES
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"Ta-___-Boom-De-Ré" : RARA
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Golda : MEIR
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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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