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Jones
Jones

New York Times, Thursday, June 12, 1986

16-Across : Cry's companion

Author:
Jones
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Jones has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,365
Across
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Son of Odin and Frigg : BALDER
7
Jackson or Smith : KATE
11
Tulsa time: Abbr. : CST
14
"Get ___!" : AHORSE
15
Part of Presley's signature : ARON
16
Cry's companion : HUE
17
Star of "A Star Is Born": 1937 : JANETGAYNOR
19
Choler : IRE
20
In one's bunk : ABED
21
Nautical term : ALEE
22
N.Y. city whose name means "oil" : OLEAN
24
Game for Zarley and Zoeller : GOLF
26
Like an aerie : LOFTY
27
One-liners : JOKES
30
Feast : REPAST
34
___ Hogg : IMA
35
" ... as ye walk, and ___?": Luke 24:17 : ARESAD
37
Links org. : USGA
41
Star of "A Star Is Born": 1976 : BARBRASTREISAND
44
Organic compound : ENOL
45
Relative of 44 Across : ACETOL
46
"Peck's ___ Boy": 1883 : BAD
47
Passions : ARDORS
49
Lass in "The Glass Menagerie" : LAURA
51
Mall, of yore : AGORA
54
Frank : OPEN
56
Decorate with diamonds : BEGEM
57
Actress Bancroft : ANNE
59
Shiver : GRUE
63
Set the pace : LED
64
Star of "A Star Is Born": 1954 : JUDYGARLAND
67
Ending for verb or glob : OSE
68
Clinton's canal : ERIE
69
Force : COERCE
70
Downing Street number : TEN
71
Nomad's abode : TENT
72
At once : HEREON
Down
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___ California : BAJA
2
Jezebel's husband : AHAB
3
Type of wolf : LONE
4
Panama Canal sight : DREDGE
5
Superlative ending : EST
6
Stately : REGAL
7
Author of "The Far Pavilions" : KAYE
8
"Rosamund" composer : ARNE
9
As well : TOO
10
Registers : ENROLS
11
Main : CHIEF
12
Seaport north of Bombay : SURAT
13
Word with bopper : TEENY
18
Like Monet's paintings : ALFRESCO
23
Second wife in "The Good Earth" : LOTUS
25
Glacial ridges : OSAR
27
Agree : JIBE
28
Arabian gulf : OMAN
29
Poker player's diamond, in Munich : KARO
31
Poly follower : ESTER
32
Fa la : PARTSONG
33
___ et rege (from God and the king) : ADEO
36
Boer assembly : RAAD
38
Star of "Savage Drums" : SABU
39
Snarl : GNAR
40
Po feeder : ADDA
42
Tantara : BLARE
43
Lenard's "Winnie ___ Pu" : ILLE
48
Aircraft engine : RAMJET
50
Izaak Walton, e.g. : ANGLER
51
___ on the escutcheon : ABLOT
52
They mate for life : GEESE
53
Poet Nash : OGDEN
55
Fuzzy fruit : PEACH
57
Point after deuce : ADIN
58
Gorbachev's no : NYET
60
Excellent : RARE
61
Strange, in Ayr : UNCO
62
Utopia : EDEN
65
Suffix for press : URE
66
Caviar : ROE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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