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Shirley Soloway
Shirley Soloway

New York Times, Wednesday, October 30, 1985

40-Down : Start of evening light

Author:
Shirley Soloway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Shirley Soloway has 34 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,140
Across
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Stuff : CRAM
5
La ___ Opera House : SCALA
10
Black, to Blake : EBON
14
Hawaiian port : HILO
15
___ Garth in "Middlemarch" : CALEB
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Pram pusher : NANA
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Vivacity : ELAN
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Lend ___ (listen) : ANEAR
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Coach a thief : ABET
20
Daydream : FLIGHTOFFANCY
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Watering holes : OASES
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Man of strength : ATLAS
27
Like ___ from the blue : ABOLT
30
Loc. of Nigeria : AFR
32
Spanish wave : OLA
33
Shankar, the sitar player : RAVI
34
Kind of energy : ATOMIC
37
River of Thailand : NAN
38
Cause for a suit : BREACHOFPROMISE
41
Ind. governor : ORR
42
Annoy : HARASS
43
Acorn sources : OAKS
44
___ gestae : RES
45
Actor Vigoda : ABE
46
He portrayed Mr. Chips : DONAT
47
Less trustworthy : SLIER
49
Oviedo is here : SPAIN
52
Critical time for a matador : MOMENTOFTRUTH
58
Vipers : ASPS
60
Seer's card : TAROT
61
Pelvic bones : ILIA
62
Republic, formerly French Sudan : MALI
63
"___ of Two Cities" : ATALE
64
Submerged : SANK
65
Asian gulf : ADEN
66
Scowl : LOWER
67
"Cogito, ___ sum": Descartes : ERGO
Down
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Master cook : CHEF
2
Tricklet : RILL
3
Half a court-game name : ALAI
4
Large region in E Asia : MONGOLIA
5
Singing styles : SCATS
6
Camper's craft : CANOE
7
Hebrew letters : ALEFS
8
Autumn faller : LEAF
9
"East of Eden" girl : ABRA
10
Pass, as a bill : ENACT
11
King Hammurabi subject : BABYLONIAN
12
"___ nation under God ... " : ONE
13
Writer Hentoff : NAT
21
Something to tip : HAT
22
Stupor: Comb. form : NARCO
25
Neighbor of Siberia : ALASKA
26
Most rational : SANEST
27
Garden spots : ARBORS
28
Taxpayer's garb in cartoons : BARREL
29
Too easy : OVERSIMPLE
30
Elec. units : AMPS
31
Conifers : FIRS
34
Ishmael's skipper : AHAB
35
Ripped : TORE
36
"Son ___ gun!" : OFA
39
Amulet : CHARM
40
Start of evening light : MOONRISE
46
Code signal : DIT
48
Red dye : EOSIN
49
Basket fiber : STRAW
50
Grace ___, "Jane Eyre" character : POOLE
51
Following : AFTER
53
Abbreviated catchall : ETAL
54
Western alliance: Abbr. : NATO
55
Suffix with cell : ULAR
56
High-pitched sound : TING
57
Pawnee's dramatic rite : HAKO
58
Spanish landlady : AMA
59
Unhappy : SAD

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 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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