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Frank Geary
Frank Geary

New York Times, Wednesday, January 11, 1978

2-Down : Instrument, for short

Author:
Frank Geary
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { F Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 290 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Frank Geary has 27 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,378
Across
1
Defensive art : JUDO
5
Heliacal : SOLAR
10
An age of man : IRON
14
Related : AKIN
15
Threefold : TRINE
16
Plantation product : CANE
17
Something to feather : NEST
18
Clues for a tree's age : RINGS
19
Suffix with defer and refer : ENCE
20
Top-notch : AONE
22
Loathed : DETESTED
24
Elated : HAPPYASALARK
27
Trainee: Abbr. : APP
28
Alphabetical trio : LMN
29
Eye moisture : TEAR
31
"___ Millions," O'Neill play : MARCO
33
Church part : APSE
36
Assay : TEST
39
Oak's offspring : ACORN
40
Keystone ___ of silents : KOP
41
"___ to the Church on Time" : GETME
42
River in U.S.S.R. : NEVA
43
Guard or admiral : REAR
44
Robespierre's hometown : ARRAS
45
Punta del ___ : ESTE
47
Our man or woman abroad: Abbr. : AMB
49
Deed : ACT
50
Easygoing : HAPPYGOLUCKY
54
Paper ingredient : WOODPULP
57
Headway : DENT
58
Opposed : ANTI
59
Capacious : LARGE
61
Quote : CITE
64
Roman 204 : CCIV
65
Dexter, e.g. : STEER
66
Give use of : LOAN
67
Alleviate : EASE
68
Site of the Krupp works : ESSEN
69
Lass of King Arthur's day : ENID
Down
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Sterling or Murray : JAN
2
Instrument, for short : UKE
3
Decline to sanction : DISAPPROVE
4
Sitting pretty : ONTOP
5
Watercourse : STREAM
6
Boundary: Comb. form : ORI
7
Ronstadt or Blair : LINDA
8
One of Charlie's girls : ANGEL
9
Say it again : RESTATE
10
Fleming or Hamill : ICESKATER
11
Declaim vehemently : RANT
12
How often are you young? : ONCE
13
"A friend in ___ ... " : NEED
21
Synthetic material : NYLON
23
Poetic word : ERE
24
Esther was his nemesis : HAMAN
25
Swiftly : APACE
26
Plumber's device : SNAKE
30
Follow-up on a newspaper error : RETRACTION
32
Submarine maneuver : CRASHDIVE
34
Kentucky bluegrass : POA
35
Miner's roof prop : SPRAG
37
Fishing boat : SMACK
38
Peevish : TESTY
41
Lombard's widower : GABLE
43
Warship sunk in W.W. II : REPULSE
46
Dance of a sort : TAP
48
Neoteric : MODERN
51
Braids : PLATS
52
Battle site: 1914-18 : YPRES
53
Sam or Tom : UNCLE
54
Anglo-Norman poet : WACE
55
Ounce, in Brazil : ONCA
56
Inventor or patriot : OTIS
60
Command to oxen : GEE
62
Red porgy : TAI
63
Omega : END

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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