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Hal R. Hollinger
Hal R. Hollinger

New York Times, Saturday, June 10, 1978

56-Across : Kind of gin in the 20's

Author:
Hal R. Hollinger
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { Q }, Scrabble score: 328 (avg 1.77)
Open Squares: 57, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5 Grid has duplicate clues.
Hal R. Hollinger has 10 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,528
Across
1
Taylor nickname : LIZ
4
Anderson's "High ___" : TOR
7
Treat shabbily : USE
10
Kitchen abbr. : TBS
13
Name meaning "watchful" : IRA
14
Suffix with verb or herb : OSE
15
Ballroom favorite : FOXTROT
17
Year in Trajan's reign : CII
18
Part of the French Alps : PIC
19
"___ washes the other" : ONEHAND
20
Haifa is here: Abbr. : ISR
21
"Camino ___" : REAL
23
Prize for "Annie": 1977 : TONY
24
Singing siblings : THECARPENTERS
28
Dad's or Gramp's : HIS
29
Closefisted : NEAR
30
G.S.A. founder : LOW
33
Start of a Nichols title : ABIES
36
"Très ___, merci" : BIEN
37
___-Coburg : SAXE
38
Storyland siblings : HANSELANDGRETEL
41
Have contiguity : ABUT
42
Party in Gomorrah : ORGY
43
Flip head over heels : UPEND
44
First name from 1776 : BEN
45
Singer from Texas : CARR
46
"What Kind of Fool ___?" : AMI
47
Singing siblings : DONNYANDMARIE
53
Home of Baylor U. : WACO
54
Sills, e.g. : DIVA
55
The whole ball of wax : ALL
56
Kind of gin in the 20's : BATHTUB
59
Go on an angle : ZIG
60
Nabors or Backus : JIM
61
Make ___ scarce (flee) : ONESELF
62
Winner of five dogfights : ACE
63
Alias: Abbr. : AKA
64
Canceled, with "out" : XED
65
Sparks's "Help!" : SOS
66
Size between sml. and lge. : MED
67
Farm femme : HEN
Down
1
Lawful : LICIT
2
Kind of coffee or stew : IRISH
3
Scene of Mailer's "The Fight" : ZAIRE
4
" ... to bury Caesar, not ___ him" : TOPRAISE
5
Almond willows : OSIERS
6
Newsy digest : RECAP
7
Out-of-this-world object : UFO
8
Any man but Adam : SON
9
Collegiate home of Puritanism : EXETER
10
Instruction on a French I exam : TRANSLATE
11
Excessively thin : BONY
12
Avg. : STD
16
Thursday's eponym : THOR
22
Winter Palace site : LENINGRAD
25
Sternal area : CHEST
26
Penurious : NEEDY
27
Piquancy : TANG
31
Yoke wearers : OXEN
32
Do a whitesmith's job : WELD
33
Captain with an obsession : AHAB
34
Zaharias : BABE
35
Deluged : INUNDATED
36
Loser to Lyndon: 1964 : BARRY
37
Rich brown pigment : SEPIA
39
Type of shark : LOAN
40
Searched high and low : RUMMAGED
45
Ten make a grand : CNOTES
46
Suggestion-box contents : ADVICE
48
Famed publisher : OCHS
49
Turkish soldier : NIZAM
50
Punjab prince : RAJAH
51
Part of a 1956 slogan : ILIKE
52
One of Leopold Auer's pupils : ELMAN
53
Pass one's heyday : WANE
56
Whence Jack pops : BOX
57
Related to gums: Comb. form : ULO
58
"___ Daughter," Marquand book : BFS

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

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