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Frank Geary
Frank Geary

New York Times, Thursday, January 8, 1976

31-Down : Harsh

Author:
Frank Geary
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { Q V X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Frank Geary has 27 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,644
Across
1
African stockade : BOMA
5
Utmost degree : ACME
9
Feudal lord : LIEGE
14
Magnetites : ORES
15
Checkroom fixture : COATHANGER
17
Body english, in a way : WISHFULTHINKING
19
City-map unit : LOT
20
East, in Madrid : ESTE
21
Lets : LEASES
22
Kind of drum : SNARE
24
Bridge bid: Abbr. : DBL
26
Crimean river : ALMA
29
Pledges : ASSURES
35
Place for a token : SLOT
38
Port of Arabia : ADEN
40
Pointless : INANE
41
Gambler's dream : TOHITTHEJACKPOT
44
The vowels : AEIOU
45
Asteroid : EROS
46
"___ long, long way to ... " : ITSA
47
Kind of general : TWOSTAR
49
Full extent : SPAN
51
Gardner of cartoons : REA
53
Golden calf et al. : IDOLS
57
Moat's protégé, in a way : CASTLE
62
Kettle or snare : DRUM
65
___ Testament : NEW
66
Kaufman-Hart play : ONCEINALIFETIME
69
Get out of the way : STANDASIDE
70
Cross : ROOD
71
Pastries : TARTS
72
Biblical priest : EBER
73
Miss Bancroft : ANNE
Down
1
Rose, Cotton, etc. : BOWLS
2
Hunter of the sky : ORION
3
Hostess Perle : MESTA
4
Cinder : ASH
5
Needle, in old Rome : ACUS
6
Belmont entry : COLT
7
Matched : MATED
8
Ordinal suffix : ETH
9
Highway unit : LANE
10
"___ Dinka Doo" : INKA
11
Shield : EGIS
12
Hackman or Tierney : GENE
13
Work units : ERGS
16
Quirinal and Bunker, e.g. : HILLS
18
Sense : FEEL
23
Fractions : RATIOS
25
Minstrel-show instruments : BANJOS
27
Doorstep fixture : MAT
28
Cling to : ADHERE
30
"___ transit gloria ... " : SIC
31
Harsh : UNKIND
32
Engrossed : RAPT
33
Seth's son : ENOS
34
Bristle : SETA
35
Photocopy : STAT
36
Movie-chain name : LOEW
37
Louisville's river : OHIO
39
Poetic word : EER
42
Mild rebuke : TUT
43
Viper : ASP
48
Sports place : ARENA
50
Love, in France : AIME
52
Improvise : ADLIB
54
Kind of ring : ONION
55
Kind of ade : LEMON
56
Bjorn Borg, e.g. : SWEDE
57
Expense : COST
58
Wall pier : ANTA
59
Unpleasant aftermath : SCAR
60
Omar's product : TENT
61
Covers : LIDS
63
___ out (endure) : RIDE
64
Shore, in Bonn : UFER
67
Enzyme suffix : ASE
68
___-la : TRA

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

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