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Arthur W. Palmer
Arthur W. Palmer

New York Times, Tuesday, June 29, 1982

25-Across : Luanda is its capital

Author:
Arthur W. Palmer
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { X Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Arthur W. Palmer has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,921
Across
1
Partially open : AJAR
5
Valid reasoning : LOGIC
10
Follow : TAIL
14
Asta's mistress : NORA
15
Disconcert : ABASH
16
Seine tributary : OISE
17
Architect of St. Paul's, London : CHRISTOPHERWREN
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Subjugates : ENSLAVES
21
Beginning : ONSET
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___ Park, L.I. : RIIS
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Teenage scourge : ACNE
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Luanda is its capital : ANGOLA
28
Unlike Lady Godiva : CLAD
29
Inc.'s cousin : LTD
32
Sister of Poseidon : HERA
33
Sillies : GEESE
34
Epoch : ERA
35
Famed Harlem Globetrotter : MEADOWLARKLEMON
39
Supplement : ADD
40
Crow : BOAST
41
Kind of claim : QUIT
42
Tint : DYE
43
Gaelic : ERSE
44
Philatelic sale : BOURSE
46
Brother of Eris : ARES
47
Tale of the Forsytes : SAGA
48
Instrument for Van Cliburn : PIANO
51
"The ___," Homer painting : LIFELINE
55
Sprite in English folklore : ROBINGOODFELLOW
58
Homophone for yews : EWES
59
Prospero's servant : ARIEL
60
"So what ___ is new?" : ELSE
61
Jerry of golf : PATE
62
Import : SENSE
63
Prey for Natty Bumppo : DEER
Down
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Deliver follower : ANCE
2
Wayne or Barrymore : JOHN
3
Depot abbrs. : ARRS
4
Underground ___ : RAILROAD
5
Liepaja's country : LATVIA
6
Tuners of orchestras : OBOES
7
Lacunas : GAPS
8
___ Kabibble : ISH
9
Guevara : CHE
10
U.S. poet-editor: 1877-1949 : TOWNE
11
Put on ___ (be snobbish) : AIRS
12
Conversational cliché : ISEE
13
Easter precursor : LENT
18
Emulate Magellan : SAIL
19
Circular diamond : RONDEL
23
Tip off : ALERT
24
Tun : CASK
25
Minnesota Viking Rashad : AHMAD
26
Impoverished : NEEDY
27
Judge students' tests : GRADE
28
Terminate : CEASE
29
Potto, e.g. : LEMUR
30
Deux-quatre go-between : TROIS
31
He pined for Beatrice : DANTE
33
"___ Onion," Lennon song : GLASS
36
Titania's spouse : OBERON
37
"When you ___ a tulip ... " : WORE
38
Matched : EQUALLED
44
Nonplus : BAFFLE
45
S-shaped molding : OGEE
46
Aromatic herb : ANISE
47
Properties of a square : SIDES
48
Certain school, for short : PREP
49
Waterloo is here : IOWA
50
Second in crime : ABET
51
Beef cut : LOIN
52
That fellow, to Plautus : ILLE
53
Photo-finish feature : NOSE
54
Jug : EWER
56
Hydrogen, e.g. : GAS
57
Mesabi range product : ORE

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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