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Stanley Glass
Stanley Glass

New York Times, Monday, June 25, 1979

21-Across : "Sweet ___"

Author:
Stanley Glass
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { X Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Stanley Glass has 26 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,821
Across
1
Juice extractor : REAMER
7
Abbr. in division : LCD
10
Uncertainties : IFS
13
City in central India : INDORE
14
In an old-fashioned way : QUAINTLY
16
Brittany's patron : STANNE
17
Madness : UNREASON
18
Knave beater : KINGOFHEARTS
20
Behold, in Bologna : ECCO
21
"Sweet ___" : SUE
22
___ the Sheep: 1979 : YEAROF
26
Rods' partners : REELS
28
Compilation of information : ANA
30
Date when Italy was annexed to the Byzantine Empire : DLIII
31
Junior's son : III
33
Natural resource : ORE
35
Food fish : IDE
36
40
"The Man with the ___": Markham : HOE
42
Feminine suffix : ESS
43
N.Z. is one : ISL
44
Location of Silver Springs, Fla. : OCALA
47
Resort : SPA
49
Unaided flights : SOLOS
53
Type of tooth : CANINE
55
Carney : ART
57
Strategem : WILE
58
Game bid, in bridge : FIVEDIAMONDS
61
Like Mom's muffins : HOMEMADE
64
Warning : CAVEAT
65
Butts in : INTRUDES
66
Geologic period : ICEAGE
67
"___ o' My Heart" : PEG
68
Japanese coin : SEN
69
Ring on a harness pad : TERRET
Down
1
He takes chances : RISKER
2
Lure : ENTICE
3
"Ten Cents ___," 1930 song : ADANCE
4
Ulan Bator is here : MONGOLIA
5
Conductor Rapee : ERNO
6
Sailing maneuvers : REEFS
7
Moon goddess : LUNA
8
Cash and ___ : CARRY
9
Counted calories : DIETED
10
Cole Porter's "___ De-Lovely" : ITS
11
Ziegfeld : FLO
12
Together: Prefix : SYN
14
Half a pinochle : QUEENOFSPADES
15
Like hillbilly speech : NASAL
19
Mao's successor : HUA
23
Danish-American journalist: 1849-1914 : RIIS
24
Suffix with opal or petal : OID
25
Shakespeare's "Phooey!" : FIE
27
Incite Fido to attack : SIC
29
Electrical discharge : ARC
32
D.D.E. : IKE
34
Yalie : ELI
36
Cocteau or Gabin : JEAN
37
Wartime agcy. : OSS
38
Naval initials : USS
39
Abate, as storms or trouble : BLOWOVER
40
Ad ___ committee : HOC
41
S.A. plant : OCA
45
Kind of prisoner : LIFER
46
Hostility : ANIMUS
48
Onassis : ARI
50
One-dimensional : LINEAR
51
Golden years : OLDAGE
52
Six-line poem : SESTET
54
Dodge : EVADE
56
Unspoken : TACIT
59
Sir Anthony : EDEN
60
Spiked club : MACE
61
"With it" : HIP
62
Waugh's "The Loved ___" : ONE
63
Type of loan: Abbr. : MTG

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 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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