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Kevin Wray
Kevin Wray

New York Times, Thursday, November 11, 1982

3-Down : "For Me ___ Gal," 1917 song

Author:
Kevin Wray
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { B Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Kevin Wray has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,056
Across
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Muffler : SCARF
6
E.r.a., e.g. : STAT
10
Something to cop : PLEA
14
All: Comb. form : PANTO
15
Counterweight : TARE
16
___ en masse (instant army) : LEVY
17
Bill attachment : RIDER
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Harvard, to T. S. Eliot : ALMAMATER
20
Nov. 11 : ARMISTICEDAY
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Frisbee, for one : TOY
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Broadcast : AIR
24
Afro-Asian gazelles : ARIELS
28
Nov. 1 : ALLSAINTSDAY
31
Passageway : AISLE
34
Certain mathematical planes : LOCI
35
Vending-machine item : GUM
36
Cinch : SNAP
37
Beldam : CRONE
39
Worn-out horse : JADE
40
Sternward : AFT
41
Cacomistle's rel. : COON
42
Is concerned : CARES
43
Nov. 5 : GUYFAWKESDAY
47
Ornament : ENRICH
48
Rhine feeder : AAR
49
O.S.S. successor : CIA
52
Nov. 25, this year : THANKSGIVING
56
Ten days and life : SENTENCES
59
Houston athlete : OILER
60
Unpleasant person : OGRE
61
Spot between peaks : DALE
62
River of Nantes : LOIRE
63
Trucker's concern : LOAD
64
Drains : SAPS
65
Overjoy : ELATE
Down
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Man on a nonfat diet : SPRAT
2
Al-Qahirah : CAIRO
3
"For Me ___ Gal," 1917 song : ANDMY
4
Sign from Me. to Fla. : RTEI
5
Realtor's sign : FORSALE
6
Feature of split-level houses : STAIRS
7
Soapstone : TALC
8
Weapon, in Dieppe : ARME
9
Afternoon social : TEADANCE
10
" ... our ___ done": Shak. : PLAYIS
11
Court term : LET
12
First apple polisher? : EVE
13
County of Scotland : AYR
19
Cuban patriot-writer: 1853-95 : MARTI
21
Sesame : TIL
25
Poet Masters : EDGAR
26
Summa cum ___ : LAUDE
27
"Under a Blanket of Blue" lyricist : SYMES
28
Finsteraarhorn, e.g. : ALP
29
In one's solitude : ALONE
30
Play by Euripides : ION
31
"There lived ___ in days ... ": Thackeray : ASAGE
32
Playfully : INFUN
33
Kind of butterfly : SATYR
37
Men in Hurd's paintings : COWHANDS
38
Soldier of Seoul : ROK
39
Bird of the crow family : JAY
41
Hide : CACHE
42
One-horse carriage : CARIOLE
44
Like certain sheets or coats : FITTED
45
Gives lip disservice : SASSES
46
Hammarskjöld : DAG
49
Eyelashes : CILIA
50
Not moving : INERT
51
Correspond : AGREE
53
College sports org. : NCAA
54
Sea-otter's-cabbage : KELP
55
Organ stop : VIOL
56
Helios : SOL
57
Kind of trip : EGO
58
Blue Eagle inits. : NRA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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