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Albert J. Klaus
Albert J. Klaus

New York Times, Monday, August 20, 1984

48-Across : Just fair

Author:
Albert J. Klaus
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 248 (avg 1.34)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Albert J. Klaus has 115 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 4 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,704
Across
1
Urge, with "on" : EGG
4
Disney pooch : SCAMP
9
Mexican coin : PESO
13
Canvas cover, for short : TARP
15
"Enigma Variations" composer : ELGAR
16
Hankering : ITCH
17
Close : NEAR
18
Radium discoverer : CURIE
19
Largest of the Marianas : GUAM
20
Relativity theorist : ALBERTEINSTEIN
23
Dove sounds : COOS
24
B'way sign : SRO
25
Profession : CAREER
28
Docility : TAMENESS
33
Ringed by : AMID
34
Modern songwriter : ARLEN
35
Venus, to Virgil : DEA
36
Theme of this puzzle : NOTEDSCIENTISTS
40
Before, to Prior : ERE
41
Having wings : ALATE
42
An N.B.A. team : NETS
43
Uninhabited : DESOLATE
45
Spread out : DEPLOY
47
Hiatus : GAP
48
Just fair : SOSO
49
Law-of-gravitation propounder : SIRISAACNEWTON
56
Surface a road : PAVE
57
Ann Arbor's river : HURON
58
White-tailed eagle : ERNE
59
Cry of regret : ALAS
60
Take the stump : ORATE
61
Backward star? : RATS
62
Decimal-system units : TENS
63
Sample : TASTE
64
Olla, e.g. : POT
Down
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Sicilian volcano : ETNA
2
Celt : GAEL
3
Snatch : GRAB
4
Region : SECTOR
5
Hints : CLUES
6
Fields for Fabius : AGRI
7
Principal : MAIN
8
Newspaper people : PRESSMEN
9
Word with hearted or toed : PIGEON
10
Needle case : ETUI
11
Scrutinize : SCAN
12
Lawmaker re electrical resistance : OHM
14
Go before : PRECEDE
21
Fish eggs : ROE
22
Council of ___: 1545-63 : TRENT
25
Flogged, in a way : CANED
26
Love, in Milano : AMORE
27
Baptism and bar mitzvah : RITES
28
Hackneyed : TRITE
29
Toward shelter : ALEE
30
Old Ford car : EDSEL
31
Fight : SETTO
32
Like a brat : SASSY
34
As quick as ___ : ACAT
37
___ Lama : DALAI
38
Newman hockey film : SLAPSHOT
39
"A friend ___ is a friend lost": H. B. Adams : INPOWER
44
Female monster : OGRESS
45
Plot's main premise : DONNEE
46
Compass point : ESE
48
English entomologist Hugh ___ : SCOTT
49
Vendition : SALE
50
Physiologist Pavlov : IVAN
51
Invisible vapor : AURA
52
River in Turkey : ARAS
53
Snare : TRAP
54
Upon : ONTO
55
Cozy place : NEST
56
Boone or O'Brien : PAT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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