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Nancy McCarthy
Nancy McCarthy

New York Times, Tuesday, September 18, 1984

20-Across : Martin Sheen, né ___

Author:
Nancy McCarthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { H J K Q U X }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Nancy McCarthy has 47 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,733
Across
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Brewer's foamy yeast : BARM
5
"For once, upon ___ and gusty day ... ": Shak. : ARAW
9
Prior's superior : ABBOT
14
Olive for Ovid : OLEA
15
Skirt style : MINI
16
Raccoon's relative : COATI
17
Biblical king : AGAG
18
Something singular : ONER
19
Condor's claw : TALON
20
Martin Sheen, né ___ : RAMONESTEVEZ
23
Taunt : GIBE
24
Word with cent or herring : RED
25
One of a Latin trio : AMO
28
Bell and Kettle : MAS
31
Alfonse's polite ami : GASTON
33
B'way bomb : FLOP
34
Fanon : ORALE
36
Press a suit : WOO
37
River in Switzerland : AARE
38
Bob Dylan, né ___ : ROBERTZIMMERMAN
42
Portent : OMEN
43
Charged particle : ION
44
Revolted : AROSE
45
Chalcedony : SARD
46
Insomniac pitcher? : TOSSER
49
Russian state: Abbr. : SSR
50
Between ar and tee : ESS
51
Buddy : PAL
52
Choir member : ALTO
54
Engelbert Humperdinck, né ___ : ARNOLDDORSEY
59
Unaccompanied : ALONE
62
French literary lion : GIDE
63
Salt tree : ATLE
64
Evade : DODGE
65
An anagram for Eris : IRES
66
Popular piano piece : NOLA
67
Dutch painter Jan ___ : STEEN
68
Heel over : CANT
69
"___ a dark and stormy ... " : TWAS
Down
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Male pig : BOAR
2
Pesky pool plant : ALGA
3
Enlarge a hole : REAM
4
Gog and ___ : MAGOG
5
A protozoan : AMOEBA
6
Hair preparations : RINSES
7
Noted French violinist: 17th c. : ANET
8
Bookie's bailiwick : WIREROOM
9
Functioned : ACTED
10
Ruth's husband : BOAZ
11
Dance, in France : BAL
12
Siouan : OTO
13
Kind of soldier : TIN
21
Long African waterway : NIGER
22
Asp's lethal liquid : VENOM
25
Cottonwoods : ALAMOS
26
Marsh : MORASS
27
Key, sometimes : OPENER
28
Glum : MOROSE
29
Scents : AROMAS
30
Cavalry weapons : SABERS
32
Castor and Pollux : TWINS
33
Klinger portrayer : FARR
35
Give for a time : LEND
39
Giant : TITAN
40
Of animals : ZOOLOGIC
41
An ___ the ground : EARTO
47
Cause sorrow : SADDEN
48
An adjective for Esau : ELDEST
51
Dress carefully : PREEN
53
Praying figure : ORANT
54
Cherub, in Cherbourg : ANGE
55
In Turkey, 100 piasters : LIRA
56
Cache : STOW
57
Poet ___ Wheeler Wilcox : ELLA
58
Shouted affirmations : YEAS
59
Sale notices, for short : ADS
60
Realty parcel : LOT
61
Pindaric : ODE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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