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Daniel Girardi
Daniel Girardi

New York Times, Saturday, July 22, 1989

17-Across : Old films' Billie

Author:
Daniel Girardi
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 8, XRef: 2, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 Grid has duplicate clues.
Daniel Girardi has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,501
Across
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Wild goat : TAHR
5
Memorable showman : COHAN
10
Gray soldier : REB
13
Michelangelo forte : ARTE
14
Singer-actress Susan : ANTON
15
Sentimentality : MUSH
16
Three-year-old salmon : MORT
17
Old films' Billie : BURKE
18
Pole, in Spain : ASTA
19
Kind of farm or house : POOR
20
Japanese national park : ASO
21
Different : OTHER
22
"For want of a ___ ... " : NAIL
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Yukon discoveries : NUGGETS
27
Puts up : ERECTS
29
Tuchman's "A Distant ___" : MIRROR
30
These replaced ticals in Thailand : BAHTS
31
"Arabian Nights" creature : GENIE
32
Edible tuber : OCA
35
New Testament book : ACTS
36
Embarrassed vegetables? : BEETS
37
Church group : FOLD
38
Elsa's mate : LEO
39
"___ Lucia" (Italian song) : SANTA
40
Brown pigment : SEPIA
41
Snouty animals : TAPIRS
43
Logicize : REASON
44
An order of angels : THRONES
45
Sculls : OARS
46
Implied but unsaid : TACIT
47
Goose eggs : OOO
49
Cargo : LOAD
52
Nagy of Hungary : IMRE
53
___ und Drang : STURM
55
Wide: Comb. form : EURY
56
Portuguese explorer : DIAS
57
Kind of shot in film making : MATTE
58
"Nana" star: 1934 : STEN
59
Ubiquitous street : ELM
60
Execrate : ABHOR
61
"For want of a ___ ... " : SHOE
Down
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Force down with light strokes : TAMP
2
Buck chaser : AROO
3
Confederate army incursion : HTRONEHTOTHCRAM
4
Disowns a statement : RETRACTS
5
Conspiratorial coteries : CABALS
6
Blame : ONUS
7
Convergence of 3 Down and 10 Down : HTRONMEETSSOUTH
8
Roger's cousin : AOK
9
Nautical dir. : NNE
10
Command to Union army re 3 Down : RUSHTROOPSSOUTH
11
Opera singer Simon : ESTES
12
Indian caste : BHAR
15
San ___, Calif. : MATEO
21
Windigo : OGRE
23
"___ My Party," Gore hit: 1963 : ITS
25
Rocky Mountains range : UINTA
26
Spanish Cubist: 1887-1927 : GRIS
27
Biblical mountain : EBAL
28
Rapids phenomenon : RACE
31
Art category : GENRE
33
TV adman's award : CLIO
34
Muslim call to prayer : ADAN
36
Bath, in Brest : BAIN
37
Like Fosdick of the comics : FEARLESS
39
Place, as a cue ball : SPOT
40
Tranquillity, for one : SEA
42
Pres. Jefferson's sign : ARIES
43
Paying guest : ROOMER
44
Dravidian language : TAMIL
46
This can turn : TIDE
48
"___ take arms ... ": Hamlet : ORTO
50
Mars: Comb. form : AREO
51
Unit of force : DYNE
53
Wee, to Burns : SMA
54
Collar part : TAB

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

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