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James R. Burns
James R. Burns

New York Times, Wednesday, August 11, 1982

20-Across : Religious solitaries

Author:
James R. Burns
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
James R. Burns has 36 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,964
Across
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N. J. town : LODI
5
Command to Fido : SPEAK
10
Exhort : URGE
14
Surrounded by : AMID
15
Golf score : EAGLE
16
Jays' cousins : PIES
17
Moves from the minors to a Calif. club : TAKESAGIANTSTEP
20
Religious solitaries : EREMITES
21
Sacred: Comb. form : HIERO
22
Type of tape : RED
23
Bedecked : CLAD
25
More risqué : RACIER
29
Certain tanks : BOILERS
32
Pteroid : ALAR
33
Site of a W.W. I battle : SOMME
34
Glacial : ICY
36
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium : HOMEOFTHEBRAVES
40
Haggard African queen : SHE
41
Scholar in a library : PORER
42
Breakdown or passing : LANE
43
A neighbor of Mali : ALGERIA
45
First pianist to use a jazz organ : WALLER
47
Square column : ANTA
48
Penrod's pal : SAM
49
Have ___ (be prudent) : ACARE
52
Alice's tea-party companion : DORMOUSE
57
Fagin's protégé on the Coast? : THEARTFULDODGER
60
Mountain pool : TARN
61
Parisian student : ELEVE
62
French islands : ILES
63
Footless : APOD
64
Consumed : EATEN
65
Flower cluster : CYME
Down
1
Behindhand : LATE
2
Moreno of baseball : OMAR
3
Levee : DIKE
4
Bibliographer's "same" : IDEM
5
Usher : SEATER
6
Called out for : PAGED
7
Sponsorship : EGIS
8
According to : ALA
9
One of the Boyers of summer : KEN
10
Word with down : UPSIDE
11
Ceremony : RITE
12
Former actor in "The Waltons" : GEER
13
Nickname in hockey : ESPO
18
Father : SIRE
19
Old German coin : THALER
23
Talented rookie : COMER
24
Part of a tupelo : LIMB
25
Stadium cheers : RAHS
26
Hilo hail or farewell : ALOHA
27
Deloul or hageen : CAMEL
28
Choler : IRE
29
Black tea : BOHEA
30
Messala, to Ben-Hur : RIVAL
31
Film unit : SCENE
33
Slight furrow : STRIA
35
Nieuwpoort's river : YSER
37
Diamond event in April : OPENER
38
Dix or Knox : FORT
39
Tennis term : ALL
44
Army rifle : GARAND
45
Lewis E. Lawes was one : WARDEN
46
Cartridges, for short : AMMO
48
Work out : SOLVE
49
"___ boy!" : ATTA
50
Fellow : CHAP
51
Of flying machines : AERO
52
Vocal composition : DUET
53
Like Pindar's poetry : ODIC
54
Adjective for an eyesore : UGLY
55
Appear : SEEM
56
Gaelic : ERSE
58
Driver's aid : TEE
59
Lake Okeechobee's state: Abbr. : FLA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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