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Albert J. Klaus
Albert J. Klaus

New York Times, Tuesday, July 19, 1988

70-Across : Pulls

Author:
Albert J. Klaus
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 288 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Albert J. Klaus has 115 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 4 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,133
Across
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U.S. Coast Guard woman : SPAR
5
Pile neatly : STACK
10
Throat-clearing sound : AHEM
14
Roof edge : EAVE
15
___ d'hôte : TABLE
16
Opposite of yep : NOPE
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British Navy woman : WREN
18
Foreigner : ALIEN
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Speaker of baseball : TRIS
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Scarlet weaverbird : STRAWBERRYFINCH
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Ott or Tormé : MEL
24
Liquid meas. : GAL
25
"___ Hill," 1940 song : BLUEBERRY
30
Auriculate : EARED
35
Time period : EON
36
Actress Farrow : MIA
37
Eye membrane : RETINA
38
Assistant : AIDE
40
Main artery : AORTA
42
Italian wine center : ASTI
43
Mentally defective person : CRETIN
45
Son of Gad: Gen. 46:16 : ERI
46
Moray, e.g. : EEL
47
A king of Judea : HEROD
48
Thanksgiving Day sauce source : CRANBERRY
51
Ration-book agcy. : OPA
53
Spanish title : DON
54
Twain novel : HUCKLEBERRYFINN
63
SW Asian country : IRAN
64
Proportion : RATIO
65
Money exchange fee : AGIO
66
Having all one's marbles : SANE
67
Holding device : CLAMP
68
___ and robbers : COPS
69
Seattle ___, 1977 Derby winner : SLEW
70
Pulls : HALES
71
Gaelic : ERSE
Down
1
Stitches : SEWS
2
Segment : PART
3
Assert : AVER
4
Change a title : RENAME
5
Groom, e.g. : STABLEMAN
6
Falsehood, sometimes : TALE
7
Red powder used in India : ABIR
8
Priests and bishops, e.g. : CLERGY
9
Nairobi is its capital : KENYA
10
Oppositionist : ANTI
11
Cornucopia : HORN
12
Long heroic poem : EPIC
13
Engage, as gears : MESH
21
Spider network : WEB
22
Escape : FLEE
25
Sandy shore : BEACH
26
River in France : LOIRE
27
Below : UNDER
28
Ebro is one : RIO
29
More unusual : RARER
31
Mindanao native : ATA
32
Part of a stairway : RISER
33
Be admitted : ENTER
34
Bettor's ___ double : DAILY
37
Fallers on Bacharach's head : RAINDROPS
39
Ike's command : ETO
41
___-la-la : TRA
44
False god : IDOL
48
Occult doctrine : CABALA
49
Lad : BOY
50
Write on the front of a bill : ENFACE
52
Sit : PERCH
54
Sibilant sound : HISS
55
Soviet mountain range : URAL
56
Walking aid : CANE
57
"What Maisie ___": H. James : KNEW
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Common Latin abbr. : ETAL
59
Hoarfrost : RIME
60
Cassini or Stravinsky : IGOR
61
Bites : NIPS
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Kind of cone or dive : NOSE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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