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Guido N. Scarato
Guido N. Scarato

New York Times, Monday, June 19, 1972

20-Across : Jack-___

Author:
Guido Scarato
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 Grid has duplicate clues.
Guido N. Scarato has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Guido Scarato is an alias for Guido N. Scarato.
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© 1972, The New York TimesNo. 8,346
Across
1
Call to Silver : HIHO
5
Forest area : GLADE
10
African republic : CHAD
14
Over : ANEW
15
Fasten again : RETIE
16
Washington Sq. girl : ROSE
17
Words of an amateur woodsman : ICANNOTTELLALIE
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Jack-___ : TAR
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Dutch uncles : OOMS
22
Eye parts : UVEAS
23
Stimulate : INNERVE
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Poetic cattle : KINE
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Cockney's steed : ORSE
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Complicate : ENTANGLE
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Roly-poly : OBESE
34
Wicked look : SNEER
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Inlet : RIA
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Wash : LAVE
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"Call Me ___" : MADAM
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Young people : LADS
39
Ring name : ALI
40
Ate : DINED
41
Past or present : TENSE
42
Like some cigarettes : FILTERED
44
Walked : TROD
45
Hebrew measure : OMER
46
" ... dawn comes up like ___" : THUNDER
49
Pupil of Socrates : PLATO
52
Dark: Fr. : NOIR
53
Friend, in St. Lo : AMI
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Mob's maxim : SILENCEISGOLDEN
58
Moslem chief : IMAM
59
Basis of some bets : HUNCH
60
Date for Caesar : IDES
61
Back talk : SASS
62
Tracts : AREAS
63
Ancient port : TYRE
Down
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Neighbor of Cuba : HAITI
2
Quechuan : INCAN
3
Simian advice : HEARNOEVIL
4
Have : OWN
5
Record part : GROOVE
6
"___ do it my own way" : LETME
7
Lawyers: Abbr. : ATTS
8
Gambling piece : DIE
9
Electric, for one : EEL
10
Easily daunted : CRAVEN
11
Ole swimmin' ___ : HOLE
12
Land area : ASIA
13
Letters : DEES
18
Europeans : NORSE
19
Kind of module : LUNAR
24
Gaelic : ERSE
25
Work on clay : KNEAD
26
News piece : ITEM
28
Over : ENDED
29
"The ___ of 'em all" : GRANDDADDY
30
Eye parts : LIDS
31
Comfort : EASE
32
Norwegian king : OLAF
33
Island off Java : BALI
34
Less scatterbrained : SANER
37
Bog : MIRE
38
Ponce de ___ : LEON
40
Evil spirit : DEMON
41
Cape Cod town : TRURO
43
Reservation sights : TOTEMS
44
Femur locales : THIGHS
46
Puccini opera : TOSCA
47
Eastern prince : EMEER
48
Hair tint : RINSE
49
Greek letters : PSIS
50
S. A. city : LIMA
51
"Pigeons on the grass ___" : ALAS
52
Mets, e.g. : NINE
55
Chinese tea : CHA
56
Continent: Abbr. : EUR
57
Turned on the bulb : LIT

Answer summary:
3 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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