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Stanley Glass
Stanley Glass

New York Times, Tuesday, September 21, 1993

27-Across : Mammoth, for one

Author:
Stanley Glass
Editor:
Mel Taub
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q U X }, Scrabble score: 305 (avg 1.63)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, 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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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 16,023
Across
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First shepherd : ABEL
5
___ buster (quartz quarrier?) : SARD
9
Italian poet Torquato ___ : TASSO
14
Colorful Surrealist : DALI
15
Way yonder : AFAR
16
Hit song of 1948 : AGAIN
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"Cogito, ___ sum": Descartes : ERGO
18
Couch : SOFA
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Creator of Pooh and Roo : MILNE
20
Ahab's favorite etchings? : PRINTSOFWHALES
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Decimal-system base : TEN
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___ up (excited) : HET
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Cotton merchant's unit : BALE
26
Plant plot : BED
27
Mammoth, for one : CAVE
28
"The ___ of St. Mark": Keats : EVE
31
Statuette for a star : OSCAR
34
Rate of progress : PACE
35
Top man in a bakery? : ICER
36
Ghostly champions of yore? : SHADESOFKNIGHTS
39
Baikal or Titicaca : LAKE
40
Belligerent Olympian : ARES
41
Part of a springe : NOOSE
42
Have creditors : OWE
43
Working colonists : ANTS
44
Atlantique, e.g. : MER
45
Previous prefix : ANTE
46
Attorneys, collectively : BAR
47
Saratoga, e.g. : SPA
50
Food for stage hogs and hags? : HAMSANDWITCHES
54
Showy parrot : MACAW
55
What watch watchers watch : DIAL
56
Fabric fuzz : LINT
57
Esteem highly : PRIZE
58
Lough of N. Ireland : ERNE
59
Just more than never : ONCE
60
Feast at which matzoh is served : SEDER
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Precious : DEAR
62
Eosin user : DYER
Down
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Accomplished : ADEPT
2
Vt. granite center : BARRE
3
City NW of Chicago : ELGIN
4
Symbol of courage : LION
5
Gave a lot of lip : SASSED
6
Under way : AFOOT
7
Human rubbish : RAFF
8
Disadvantages : DRAWBACKS
9
Popular ground-meat treat : TAMALE
10
Smoothly mobile : AGILE
11
Mart come-on : SALE
12
Wrongdoings : SINS
13
"___ if by land..." : ONE
21
Soothing word : THERE
22
Refuge : HAVEN
26
Commanded : BADE
27
Boîtes : CAFES
28
Resound : ECHO
29
Old-timers : VETS
30
Gaelic : ERSE
31
Capital near Skagerrak : OSLO
32
Mrs. Warren's creator : SHAW
33
Encrust : CAKE
34
Foretold : PORTENDED
35
Stravinsky : IGOR
37
Clara or Monica : SANTA
38
Motionless : INERT
43
"Jeopardy!" given : ANSWER
44
Novelist who sends letters? : MAILER
45
Flabbergast : AMAZE
46
Swahili boss : BWANA
47
Lustrous : SHINY
48
A pound has 100 : PENCE
49
Autumn bloom : ASTER
50
Aesop's also-ran : HARE
51
Biting : ACID
52
Very urgent : DIRE
53
Oafish one : CLOD
54
Brit. legislators : MPS

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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