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Jeffrey A. Mercer
Jeffrey A. Mercer

New York Times, Saturday, October 26, 1985

30-Down : Conceited grin

Author:
Jeffrey A. Mercer
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Jeffrey A. Mercer has 8 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,136
Across
1
Rebukes : SCOLDS
7
Author ___ Passos : DOS
10
Kidnapper's accessory : GAG
13
Outcast : PARIAH
14
Had on : WORE
15
Golfer's concern : LIE
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Singer Newton-John : OLIVIA
17
Anti: Abbr. : AGST
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Its cap. is Springfield : ILL
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"Popeye" star : ROBINWILLIAMS
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Joyce's land : ERIN
23
British carbine : STEN
24
Military org. : USAF
27
An All-Star pitcher in 1985 : GOOSEGOSSAGE
31
Turf : SOD
34
Titled man : PEER
35
Heavenly food : MANNA
36
Mon. follower : TUE
37
City in a Marine song : TRIPOLI
40
German article : DER
41
Lion-faced warrior of Gad : ATTAI
43
Road that led to Rome : ITER
44
C.I.A.'s predecessor : OSS
45
Famed English admiral : FRANCISDRAKE
49
Sinn ___, Irish society : FEIN
50
On the fritz : NOGO
51
Islets : AITS
55
Piaf sobriquet : LITTLESPARROW
59
Second person : EVE
61
"Hair" co-lyricist : RADO
62
On fire : AFLAME
63
Broadcast : AIR
64
"Yes, ___," Davis Jr. autobiography : ICAN
65
Spoke monotonously : DRONED
66
Headland : RAS
67
Baseball great : OTT
68
Ryan O'Neal movie : SOFINE
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Germ : SPORE
2
Heat, in Honduras : CALOR
3
African antelope : ORIBI
4
Extant : LIVING
5
Hammett's "The ___ Curse" : DAIN
6
"Pygmalion" author : SHAW
7
Crooked hole on the links : DOGLEG
8
Viola's bridegroom : ORSINO
9
Bristle : SETA
10
Pianist's sliding effect : GLISSANDO
11
Be under the weather : AIL
12
Colloid : GEL
14
Actor in "Mrs. Miniver" : WALTERPIDGEON
20
Some Japanese-Americans : ISSEI
21
Werfel's "The Forty Days of ___ Dagh" : MUSA
25
"___ of God," current movie : AGNES
26
Dreads : FEARS
28
Kind of nerve : OPTIC
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"___ the ramparts ... " : OER
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Conceited grin : SMIRK
31
Faculty : STAFF
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Bizarre : OUTRE
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They itemize : DETAILERS
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Others, in Orense : OTROS
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Meadow : LEA
42
Years, to Cato : ANNI
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Unimpaired : INTACT
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French serviceman : SOLDAT
48
Charles Montagu, ___ Halifax : EARLOF
52
Native of Tabriz : IRANI
53
" ... good-will ___!": Longfellow : TOMEN
54
Bergman or Borg : SWEDE
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Threesome : TRIO
57
Cushions : PADS
58
Hair style : AFRO
59
Sound receiver : EAR
60
___ Appia : VIA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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