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R. W. Greenleaf
R. W. Greenleaf

New York Times, Tuesday, August 14, 1979

35-Across : Dawn

Author:
R. W. Greenleaf
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
R. W. Greenleaf has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,871
Across
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Swabs : MOPS
5
Gas: Prefix : AERO
9
Small vale : DELL
13
Oil group : OPEC
14
Canine sound : GNAR
15
Miss Hawkins : SADIE
16
Obi : SASH
17
More hedge work : RETRIMMING
19
Aggies, e.g. : SHOOTERS
21
Edict city: 1598 : NANTES
22
Mountain: Comb. form : OREO
23
"___ homo!" : ECCE
24
Book parts : SPINES
27
___ on (despise) : LOOKDOWN
31
Decree : ARRET
32
___ off (foists) : PALMS
33
Old car : REO
34
French river : LOIR
35
Dawn : SUNUP
36
Cafeteria item : TRAY
37
Call ___ day : ITA
38
Bitter vetches : TARES
39
Tee shot : DRIVE
40
Solaced : CONSOLED
42
Cards, as wool : TEASES
43
Carry : TOTE
44
Crawford or Baez : JOAN
45
Bottle for water : CARAFE
48
Bicentennial visitor to N.Y. Harbor : TALLSHIP
52
Two-masted vessel : BRIGANTINE
54
Wine: Comb. form : OENO
55
Author Horatio : ALGER
56
Dandelion, e.g. : WEED
57
Dole : METE
58
"King of the ___," 1965 song : ROAD
59
Approximately : ORSO
60
Kind of machine : SLOT
Down
1
Stirling or Arnold : MOSS
2
Moonfish : OPAH
3
Dinero item : PESO
4
Beer vessel : SCHOONER
5
Is in accord : AGREES
6
Hot month in Buenos Aires : ENERO
7
Word of disgust : RATS
8
Retired hockey star : ORR
9
"The public be ___!": W. H. Vanderbilt : DAMNED
10
Make the copy right : EDIT
11
Queue : LINE
12
Sailing-race divisions : LEGS
15
Fishing boats : SMACKS
18
Not done: Abbr. : INCOMP
20
Allowance for waste : TRET
23
Mt. ___, peak in Colo. : EOLUS
24
Law of the Franks : SALIC
25
First: Comb. form : PROTO
26
New Guinea, to Indonesians : IRIAN
27
Having strip markers : LANED
28
Root used in perfumery : ORRIS
29
Intertwine : WEAVE
30
Appropriately, he wrote "The Barrel-Organ" : NOYES
32
Thickened soup : PUREE
35
Bambi's creator : SALTEN
36
Lintels : TRANSOMS
38
"A Bridge ___": Ryan : TOOFAR
39
Allot the cards : DEAL
41
Contrived : STAGED
42
City on the Maumee : TOLEDO
44
Fonda and Wyman : JANES
45
Construction piece, for short : CBAR
46
Guthrie : ARLO
47
Baltic port : RIGA
48
Layer : TIER
49
Cad, colloquially : HEEL
50
Preposition : INTO
51
Keats or Yeats : POET
53
"Tea for ___" : TWO

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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