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John H. Hales
John H. Hales

New York Times, Monday, July 9, 1984

34-Across : Make sport of

Author:
John H. Hales
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
John H. Hales has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,662
Across
1
Pierce : STAB
5
Improvises a vocal : SCATS
10
Cleric of Amiens : ABBE
14
Wash : LAVE
15
Pay for a friend : TREAT
16
A Charles : NORA
17
Means of cooling : ICER
18
Odin, Thor et al. : AESIR
19
Imports from Darjeeling : TEAS
20
Certain windows : DORMERS
22
U.S. writer-anthropologist : LAFARGE
24
Guitars' kin, for short : UKES
25
Debarking site : PIER
26
Major suit : SPADES
29
All-play-no-work position : SINECURE
33
Maxwell and Lanchester : ELSAS
34
Make sport of : JAPE
35
Special agent : TMAN
36
Item on a spa schedule : REST
37
Sank a putt : HOLED
38
Monogram pt. : INIT
39
Construction piece : IBAR
40
Distresses : AILS
41
Doyle's "___ of Identity" : ACASE
42
Friedan's "The ___ Mystique" : FEMININE
44
Wrangle : BICKER
45
Partisan's air-raid shelter : ABRI
46
Small African antelope : SUNI
47
Quarterbacks' calls : SIGNALS
50
Souped-up vehicles : HOTRODS
54
Kind of race for 50 Across : DRAG
55
Emerson product : ESSAY
57
Canadian Indian : CREE
58
Indigo-yielding shrub : ANIL
59
Urbane : SUAVE
60
Slinky material : LAME
61
Welles role : KANE
62
Fastened, in a way : SEWED
63
Author Bagnold : ENID
Down
1
Moved smoothly : SLID
2
Tampico fare : TACO
3
State : AVER
4
Oceanic area : BERMUDATRIANGLE
5
Awed looks : STARES
6
Salad ingredient : CRESS
7
Loser to D.D.E. : AES
8
Vents on cars : TAILPIPES
9
Filtered : STRAINED
10
South Frigid Zone boundary : ANTARCTICCIRCLE
11
Certain South African : BOER
12
Vaunt : BRAG
13
Alleviate : EASE
21
Makes do : EKES
23
Qualifying payment : FEE
26
Finishing stroke in lettering : SERIF
27
New cadet : PLEBE
28
Indian state : ASSAM
29
Château chamber : SALLE
30
Aleutian island : UMNAK
31
Worker's morale booster : RAISE
32
Enroll : ENTER
34
Get into a controversy : JOINISSUE
37
Like some pates : HAIRLESS
41
"___ She Sweet?" : AINT
43
Pro hoopsters' org. : NBA
44
Encouraged : BUOYED
46
Close cut : SHAVE
47
Coyote St. : SDAK
48
Soap-opera creator Phillips : IRNA
49
Profit : GAIN
51
Mediterranean city : ORAN
52
Prefix for tasse : DEMI
53
It's for the birds : SEED
56
Maxim : SAW

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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