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John Dreyer
John Dreyer

New York Times, Tuesday, June 19, 1984

61-Across : Insensible

Author:
John Dreyer
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 82, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.56, Missing: { F J Q V X }, Scrabble score: 305 (avg 1.63)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0
John Dreyer has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,642
Across
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Town on Long Island : ISLIP
6
Mets' home : SHEA
10
City map : PLAT
14
Belgian city : GHENT
15
Epithet for poet Pope : WASP
16
Role for Myrna : NORA
17
Surpass : OUTDO
18
Successor to Henry the Fowler : OTTO
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Of the dawn : EOAN
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Hosp. personnel : RNS
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Harp's relative : LYRE
23
Apposable digits : THUMBS
25
Take notice : HEED
26
Attention getter : AHEM
27
Deeply earnest : SOLEMN
30
Aiding the memory : MNEMONIC
34
Christmas shrub : HOLLY
35
Type of drum : BONGO
36
Ore. neighbor : IDA
37
Moslem priest : IMAM
38
Preface : PROEM
39
Trifles : TOYS
40
Tachometer meas. : RPM
41
Tommy's guns : STENS
42
Butler portrayer : GABLE
43
Gershwin's "___ in Blue" : RHAPSODY
45
Genuflects : KNEELS
46
"___ la Douce" : IRMA
47
The Tower of London was one : GAOL
48
"The ___ File": Forsyth : ODESSA
51
N.L. M.V.P. in 1954 and 1965 : MAYS
52
Common article : THE
55
Soapstone : TALC
56
Part of a list : ITEM
58
Karl Marx's birthplace : TRIER
60
Unemployed : IDLE
61
Insensible : NUMB
62
Ancient Greek colony : IONIA
63
Red and Coral : SEAS
64
Ids' relatives : EGOS
65
Emperors of White Russia : CZARS
Down
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Operatic prince : IGOR
2
Avoid : SHUN
3
Tennis calls : LETS
4
Neither Dem. nor Rep. : IND
5
Egyptian astronomer : PTOLEMY
6
Excalibur was one : SWORD
7
Hold in odium : HATE
8
Winter time in Phila. : EST
9
Maxim : APOTHEGM
10
Lung: Comb. form : PNEUMO
11
Machine for weaving : LOOM
12
Burnoose wearer : ARAB
13
Wallops : TANS
22
Hankering : YEN
24
Blood: Comb. form : HEMO
25
Tiller's locale : HELM
26
Boleyn and Hathaway : ANNES
27
Bake eggs : SHIRR
28
Zip : OOMPH
29
Andean beast : LLAMA
30
Listless : MOONY
31
Grief-stricken mother of myth : NIOBE
32
Pastoral poem : IDYLL
33
Ablative and dative, e.g. : CASES
35
Dutch port : BREDA
38
___ poisoning : PTOMAINE
39
Chinese weight : TAEL
41
Ukr. and Lith. : SSRS
42
Having knowledge : GNOSTIC
44
Washington was one : PISCES
45
One of Arthur's knights : KAY
47
Animal's legs : GAMBS
48
Elevator pioneer : OTIS
49
Miami's county : DADE
50
Actress Raines : ELLA
51
Exec's communication : MEMO
52
Singer Turner : TINA
53
Prince Charles, for one : HEIR
54
Historic periods : ERAS
57
Pitcher McGraw : TUG
59
Rosalind's nickname : ROZ

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