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Mary S. Snyder
Mary S. Snyder

New York Times, Monday, August 3, 1992

15-Across : Huxley's "___ Barren Leaves"

Author:
Mary S. Snyder
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.64, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 301 (avg 1.66)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Mary S. Snyder has 21 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,609
Across
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Beanery potable : JAVA
5
Young haddock : SCROD
10
Soc. founded by Bergh : SPCA
14
Site of the first Olympics : ELIS
15
Huxley's "___ Barren Leaves" : THOSE
16
Framer of Roger Rabbit : TOON
17
Chronometers : TIMEPIECES
19
Item marked pd. : RCPT
20
Van Gogh painted here : ARLES
21
Puck's Irish counterpart : POOKA
23
Unit of work : ERG
26
"___ the ramparts ... " : OER
27
London sight : BIGBEN
28
Copying machine : XEROX
30
Kin of an atoll : ISLET
31
The "Boot" : ITALY
32
Street show : RAREE
34
G.I. Jane : WAC
37
___ qua non (necessity) : SINE
38
Cabinet Dept. since 1862 : AGR
39
Vikki from El Paso : CARR
40
Entrepreneur Turner : TED
41
Moreno and Hayworth : RITAS
43
Attractive gal : CUTIE
44
Savoir-___ : FAIRE
46
Killer whales : ORCAS
47
Fireplace shelf : MANTEL
48
He overacts : HAM
50
F.D.R.'s successor : HST
51
A Kennedy in-law : ETHEL
52
Mulligrubs : COLIC
54
Laugh or fence : HAHA
55
Sleeper's rouser : ALARMCLOCK
60
Russian city : OREL
61
Lake Malawi's old name : NYASA
62
African shrub : ALOE
63
Skin blemish : WART
64
Blemishes on cars : DENTS
65
Oodles : MANY
Down
1
Kind of port or plane : JET
2
___ Baba : ALI
3
Vigor's companion : VIM
4
On a cruise : ASEA
5
Fence straddler : STILE
6
Gladden : CHEER
7
Aerial bombs : ROCS
8
Chemical ending : OSE
9
Scorn : DESPISE
10
Type of light : STROBE
11
It fits in a fob : POCKETWATCH
12
Site of Mayan ruins : COPAN
13
Little colonist : ANT
18
Substitute, in law : PROXY
22
Gaze at amorously : OGLE
23
Live : EXIST
24
Fix loose shoelaces : RETIE
25
Type of clock : GRANDFATHER
27
Whirring sounds : BIRRS
29
Frontón call : OLE
32
Badgerlike honey lover : RATEL
33
Turkish title : AGA
35
Nobelist for Peace: 1987 : ARIAS
36
Surfer's surface : CREST
39
Mean mongrel : CUR
41
Marriage, e.g. : RITE
42
Hibernia : IRELAND
43
Humorous : COMIC
45
Former German state : ANHALT
47
Actress from N.Y.C. : MEARA
48
Actor Buchholz : HORST
49
Soprano Gluck et al. : ALMAS
52
He played Sonny Corleone : CAAN
53
Silent one : CLAM
54
Lennon's "___ Do You Sleep?" : HOW
56
Soap ingredient : LYE
57
Wave, in Spain : OLA
58
Not pro : CON
59
Kind of board or chain : KEY

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

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