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Christopher Sherwood
Christopher Sherwood

New York Times, Tuesday, July 22, 1986

22-Across : Unsatisfactory autos

Author:
Christopher Sherwood
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.64, Missing: { J Q V X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 57, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Christopher Sherwood has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,405
Across
1
Tattered Tom's raiment : RAGS
5
"Volsunga ___" : SAGA
9
Miniature pest : GNAT
13
Shipment to Pittsburgh : IRON
14
Resting above : ATOP
15
Indian deity : RAMA
16
Metalworking implement : FILE
17
Hash-house specials : BLUEPLATES
20
Become wan : FADE
21
Morsel for a mare : OAT
22
Unsatisfactory autos : LEMONS
23
Worries : FRETS
25
Homo sapiens : MAN
26
Dot on a map of a sea : ISLE
27
Jawbone : MANDIBLE
32
What a victor has done : WON
34
Artificial flies : LURES
36
Like Gibraltar : SOLID
37
Olympian Korbut : OLGA
39
Part of a Sikorsky machine : ROTOR
41
Apollo's launcher : NASA
42
Serf's lord : LIEGE
44
Trait carriers : GENES
46
Machine's timing device : CAM
47
U.S. Park Service employee : FORESTER
49
Rainstorm residue : MUCK
51
Coterie : SET
52
Oracles : SEERS
53
Cornucopia items : APPLES
57
Butter at Fordham : RAM
58
Shiite leader : IMAM
61
Gardener's best tool? : GREENTHUMB
63
Denver's ___ High Stadium : MILE
64
Superior : AONE
65
Woodwind : OBOE
66
English public school : ETON
67
General or private : RANK
68
Paraphernalia : GEAR
69
Outbuilding : SHED
Down
1
Jazzman's repeated phrase : RIFF
2
Song for Shirley Love : ARIA
3
Fleming's modern Midas : GOLDFINGER
4
Smiles derisively : SNEERS
5
Kin of a spy : SABOTEUR
6
One of the Titans : ATLAS
7
Ailment affecting the big toe : GOUT
8
Mimic : APE
9
Small measure : GRAM
10
W.W. II byproduct : NATO
11
Sermon's finale : AMEN
12
Source of Russian news : TASS
18
Schematic : PLAN
19
Acts like Shylock : LENDS
24
Building part : ELL
25
New Yorker for whom a jar was named : MASON
27
Poetic rhythm : METER
28
Charged atom : ION
29
Longfellow's village craftsman : BLACKSMITH
30
Soprano Della Casa : LISA
31
Red-coated dairy product : EDAM
32
Peter's nemesis : WOLF
33
Medley : OLIO
35
Lexicographer of note : ROGET
38
Grow wizened : AGE
40
"___ Me?": 1937 song : REMEMBER
43
City in the Ruhr valley : ESSEN
45
Engage in litigation : SUE
48
___ pilot : TEST
50
Felonies and misdemeanors : CRIMES
52
Pacific outpost : SAMOA
53
Seaweed extract : AGAR
54
Malayan canoe : PROA
55
Colonial Quaker : PENN
56
Onion's cousin : LEEK
57
One lacking savvy : RUBE
59
Lily variety : ALOE
60
Make whole : MEND
62
Greedy person : HOG

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

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