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Stanley Glass
Stanley Glass

New York Times, Wednesday, August 19, 1992

55-Across : Means

Author:
Stanley Glass
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 262 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Stanley Glass has 26 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,625
Across
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Altman film: 1970 : MASH
5
Father of the Federal Reserve : GLASS
10
Choir member : BASS
14
Dissenter : ANTI
15
Tennis exchange : RALLY
16
Lamb's alias : ELIA
17
Deer country? : STAGNATION
19
Verdi heroine : AIDA
20
Kind of current : CATHODE
21
He of the knitted brow : WORRIER
23
Thrown : SLUNG
25
Plf.'s antagonist : DEF
26
Cooking abbr. : TSP
29
A Turkic language : TATAR
31
Impurity in metal : DROSS
35
Inn, in Izmir : IMARET
37
Usable asset : RESOURCE
39
Poppaea's third husband : NERO
40
Glasgow or Terry : ELLEN
42
Nantes notion : IDEE
43
Sihanouk's homeland : CAMBODIA
45
Belgian seaport : OSTEND
47
Shadow : TRAIL
48
Pulled along : INTOW
50
Spanish king : REY
51
Originally named : NEE
53
Highly ranked noblemen : DUKES
55
Means : METHODS
59
Leads astray : SEDUCES
63
Hodgepodge : OLIO
64
Wildebeests answer the call? : GNUSREPORT
66
Norse capital : OSLO
67
An 18th-century American portraitist : EARLE
68
Entertainer Adams : EDIE
69
Noted army surgeon : REED
70
Worked for the C.I.A. : SPIED
71
Shoot off one's mouth : RANT
Down
1
Neither fem. nor neut. : MASC
2
Kind of pier : ANTA
3
R.b.i. or e.r.a. : STAT
4
Exhilarating moments : HIGHS
5
Got a sheepskin : GRADUATED
6
Quiescent : LATENT
7
The Greatest : ALI
8
Like a snail : SLOW
9
Clerical governing body : SYNOD
10
Snack for Smokey? : BEARFRUIT
11
Part of et al. : ALII
12
Facet : SIDE
13
Region of SW Germany : SAAR
18
Actor Nick : NOLTE
22
Give new appearance to : REDO
24
Country of long fish? : GARLAND
26
Colored : TINCT
27
Vilify : SMEAR
28
Stendhal's "The Charterhouse of ___" : PARMA
30
Western Indian : REE
32
Demand : ORDER
33
Locale : SCENE
34
Rundown : SEEDY
36
Headwear for a bird? : ROBINHOOD
38
Deceived: Slang : SNOOKERED
41
Weeks in the year MMI : LII
44
Bread spread : OLEO
46
Edberg or Borg : SWEDE
49
Scrap : TUSSLE
52
Perimeters : EDGES
54
Concierge : SUPER
55
Othello, e.g. : MOOR
56
Otherwise : ELSE
57
Mah-jongg piece : TILE
58
Piece of cake : SNAP
60
Bach finale : CODA
61
Mavourneen's home : ERIN
62
Editor's notation : STET
65
Inst. in the Ocean State : URI

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

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