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Hugh McElroy
Hugh McElroy

New York Times, Thursday, June 4, 1981

20-Across : One of two play-writing Spewacks

Author:
Hugh McElroy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { F Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 61, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Hugh McElroy has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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S
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Y
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D
4
A
5
J
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A
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R
8
O
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C
10
T
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O
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T
O
A
13
A
S
O
N
E
14
P
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O
R
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Y
O
U
D
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O
N
T
H
A
V
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E
T
O
B
E
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E
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N
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R
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B
E
L
L
A
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A
L
G
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D
A
R
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M
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A
R
R
I
E
D
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T
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E
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B
A
R
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B
O
N
O
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E
S
S
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S
E
R
A
I
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T
O
R
E
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M
S
S
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I
N
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W
H
O
S
W
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H
O
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P
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S
T
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R
O
T
E
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E
L
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L
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I
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S
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B
A
L
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D
E
N
Y
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P
A
T
E
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T
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E
V
A
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D
I
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G
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M
A
R
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A
R
U
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A
L
C
A
N
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W
E
S
T
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T
O
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T
O
K
N
O
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W
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W
H
A
T
S
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W
H
A
T
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E
V
E
N
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A
P
A
R
A
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R
E
D
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N
A
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Y
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G
A
M
A
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Y
R
S
© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,531
Across
1
One of the Chaplins : SYD
4
Door position : AJAR
8
Eight: Prefix : OCTO
12
Shelley's "___ Skylark" : TOA
13
Totally united : ASONE
14
On one's uppers : POOR
15
Start of a Sam Levenson book title : YOUDONTHAVETOBE
18
Time out of mind : EON
19
Restriction : REIN
20
One of two play-writing Spewacks : BELLA
21
Math subj. : ALG
22
Book by Nabokov : DAR
23
"I ___ an Angel" : MARRIED
25
Railroad-switch rod : TIEBAR
27
Sonny of TV : BONO
28
Before tee : ESS
29
Turkish palace : SERAI
30
Wrenched : TORE
31
Writers' submissions to eds. : MSS
32
More of book title : INWHOSWHO
35
Attention-getting sound : PST
37
Sound of surf : ROTE
38
___ Bell (Emily Brontë's pen name) : ELLIS
42
___ masqué : BAL
43
Gainsay : DENY
44
Kind of medicine : PATENT
45
Dodger's forte : EVADING
47
Vandalize : MAR
48
Island of the South Seas : ARU
49
Far North highway : ALCAN
50
A memorable Mae : WEST
51
Bon ___ : TON
52
End of book title : TOKNOWWHATSWHAT
56
Serene : EVEN
57
Armadillo : APARA
58
Like some carpets : RED
59
Not one, to Ozark Ike : NARY
60
Vasco da ___ : GAMA
61
Parts of a cen. : YRS
Down
1
Rat : STOOLIE
2
"___ Than Springtime" : YOUNGER
3
Family member : DAD
4
No longer sleeping : ASTIR
5
Pop singer from Middlesex : JOHN
6
Notes and anecdotes : ANA
7
Gun an engine : REV
8
To choose: Fr. : OPTER
9
Their wages are outrageous : COOLIES
10
"A heart to pity, and a hand ___": C. Churchill : TOBLESS
11
Some of Pan's entourage : OREADS
13
Lend ___ (listen) : ANEAR
15
Irish poet-dramatist : YEATS
16
Confer priesthood upon : ORDAIN
17
Longest river within Spain : EBRO
23
Dit-dah man : MORSE
24
Over again : ANEW
26
"Fish or cut ___!" : BAIT
27
Swag : BOOTY
30
Snowshoe strap : THONG
31
Shed : MOLT
33
He wrote "Beau Geste" : WREN
34
Card game : HEARTS
35
Great dancer of W.W. I era : PAVLOVA
36
Goof-off : SLACKER
39
Jacket material : LEATHER
40
Forays : INROADS
41
Impede growth : STUNT
42
Like many a path : BEATEN
43
Nickname for one of the Martins : DINO
44
Ristorante's pride : PASTA
46
Thomas or Kaye : DANNY
47
Cook for O'Connor on TV : MEARA
50
Kerspang! : WHAM
53
Funny fellow : WAG
54
Agcy. dissolved in 1943 : WPA
55
Distorted : WRY

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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