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Gayle Dean
Gayle Dean

New York Times, Friday, November 22, 1985

50-Down : Persian fairy

Author:
Gayle Dean
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 4.72, Missing: { J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 52, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has duplicate clues.
Gayle Dean has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 5 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,163
Across
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Small talk : CHAT
5
S.A. capital : LIMA
9
Start of a quotation from Santayana : ITIS
13
Opulent : RICH
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Adored one : IDOL
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Pried : NOSED
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Quotation: Part II : AGREATADVANTAGE
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Wagon part : WHEEL
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Dine : EAT
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Edict : LAW
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Collections of anecdotes : ANAS
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By mouth : ORALLY
29
Quotation: Part III : FORASYSTEMOF
34
Guinness : ALEC
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Hades river : STYX
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___ and crafts : ARTS
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Pedagogue : TEACHER
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Of a chamber : CAMERAL
44
Precinct : AREA
45
Bonne ___, Nice sweetheart : AMIE
47
Lone : SOLE
48
Quotation: Part IV : PHILOSOPHYTO
51
Small-sized fowl : BANTAM
54
Descartes : RENE
55
A Gardner : AVA
56
Butter measure : PAT
58
Swathed, as a judge : ROBED
63
Quotation: Part V : BESUBSTANTIALLY
68
Obliterate : ERASE
69
End of quotation : TRUE
70
Artifice : RUSE
71
Luge or monoski : SLED
72
Nick Charles's dog : ASTA
73
Item in a pit : SEED
Down
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Bird's crop : CRAW
2
Atop Everest : HIGH
3
Farm measure : ACRE
4
Quaker's pronoun : THEE
5
Illuminated : LIT
6
Gem St. : IDA
7
Decorum : MODESTY
8
Menlo Park name : ALVA
9
Resting place : INN
10
Little one : TOT
11
"The readiness ___": Hamlet : ISALL
12
He wrote "The Class" : SEGAL
16
Like morning grass : DEWY
18
Sad cry : ALAS
19
Fermi interest : ATOM
24
Wall St. letters : NYSE
25
Starry : ASTRAL
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Spatiate : ROAM
28
Once more : AFRESH
29
Adipose : FAT
30
Olive genus : OLEA
31
Back : REAR
32
Take in : ACCEPT
33
Type of tax : EXCISE
37
Ilium : TROY
38
Sodium chloride : SALT
40
Laugh or fence : HAHA
42
Time period : AEON
43
Tolstoy : LEO
46
Plasters together : MORTARS
49
Little devils : IMPS
50
Persian fairy : PERI
51
Bunyan's ox : BABE
52
Asseverates : AVERS
53
Twangy : NASAL
57
"___ boy!" : ATTA
59
Gig rig : OARS
60
Color of 51 Down : BLUE
61
Other : ELSE
62
Tinted : DYED
64
Employ : USE
65
Resting place : BED
66
Crackpot : NUT
67
Oolong, e.g. : TEA

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

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