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Sara V. Tuckerman
Sara V. Tuckerman

New York Times, Friday, September 19, 1980

1-Across : Cougars

Author:
Sara V. Tuckerman
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 290 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Sara V. Tuckerman has 40 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,273
Across
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Cougars : PUMAS
6
Fleshy fruit : DATE
10
"___ nome" : CARO
14
___-garde : AVANT
15
Soviet stream : URAL
16
Mature : AGED
17
A Darling child : WENDY
18
Kind of tax : POLL
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Veer : SLUE
20
Den : LAIR
21
Merging : COALESCENT
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Criminals, collectively : FELONRY
25
Author of "Them" : OATES
26
Justice Potter ___ of the Supreme Court : STEWART
28
Red deer : HIND
30
Lichenose : MOSSY
31
Trivial verse : DOGGEREL
35
Ending with insist or exist : ENT
36
Musical passages : ARIOSOS
39
Western Indian : UTE
40
Virginia creeper : WOODBINE
42
Oncle's counterpart : TANTE
44
Mansard : ROOF
45
Legendary lake near Naples : AVERNUS
47
Jewel : BIJOU
50
Henry's quest : LIBERTY
52
Floral designs used in architecture : ACANTHUSES
54
Little devils : IMPS
57
"Quién ___?" : SABE
58
Figure skater's leap : AXEL
59
Consume : USEUP
60
God of love : AMOR
61
Persian fairy : PERI
62
Chaplain : PADRE
63
Court calls : LETS
64
Voyaging : ASEA
65
Sluggish : INERT
Down
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Detent : PAWL
2
Part of the eye : UVEA
3
Proclamation : MANIFESTO
4
Dana or Julie : ANDREWS
5
Hampshire's dwelling : STY
6
Delaware name of fame : DUPONT
7
Howling : AROAR
8
Huntsmen's cries : TALLYHOS
9
French magazine : ELLE
10
Waterfall : CASCADE
11
Metal tip on a shoelace : AGLET
12
Join the old grads : REUNE
13
"Awake and Sing" playwright : ODETS
21
Bk. of the Bible : COR
22
Poet : SONGSTER
24
Strike in all directions : LAYABOUT
26
Diving bird : SMEW
27
"___-Bungay": H.G. Wells : TONO
29
"But ___ on for ever": Tennyson : IGO
31
John or Jane : DOE
32
Where the Magna Carta was signed in 1215 : RUNNYMEDE
33
"___, Brute!" : ETTU
34
Dregs : LEES
37
"___ Rita" : RIO
38
Mouths of streams : INFLUXES
41
Dull, monotonous speakers : DRONERS
43
Revere was one : ARTISAN
45
Flowering shrub of Asia : ABELIA
46
Ship: Abbr. : VES
47
Adjective for a primer : BASAL
48
What "veni" means : ICAME
49
Frill on a shirt : JABOT
51
Grenoble's river : ISERE
53
___ haole, Hawaiian-Caucasian : HAPA
55
Contented sound : PURR
56
Small barracuda : SPET
59
A. P. rival : UPI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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