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Judson G. Trent
Judson G. Trent

New York Times, Wednesday, November 28, 1984

15-Down : Rust

Author:
Judson G. Trent
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 46, Avg Word Len: 4.59, Missing: { J K Q V Y Z }, Scrabble score: 253 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 55, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Judson G. Trent has 51 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,804
Across
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Globe favorite : BARD
5
Invoice : BILL
9
Port ___, Egypt : SAID
13
Indonesian island : ALOR
14
Oil: Comb. form : ELAEO
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Plasm header : ECTO
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Kirghiz range : ALAI
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Spiral : HELIX
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Ginkgo, e.g. : TREE
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Anagram of binder : INBRED
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Anagram of trifle : FILTER
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___ Gatos, Calif. : LOS
25
Matrix : DIE
26
Keyboard instrument : CELESTA
30
Roman emperor: 117-38 : HADRIAN
34
Uplift : ELATE
35
Emulates Greeley : EDITS
37
Bird's org. : NBA
38
Rackets : DINS
39
Pelt : STONE
40
Dutch town : STAD
41
"The Old-Time Saloon" author : ADE
42
Confront in defiance : BEARD
43
N.Z. Polynesian native : MAORI
44
Dangerfield's desire : RESPECT
46
Coup d'état victor : USURPER
48
Poetic adverb : EER
49
Ending's end : ING
50
Anagram of throne : HORNET
53
Anagram of lisper : PLIERS
56
I.B.T. vehicle : SEMI
57
"Over ___" : THERE
59
Broadway light : NEON
61
Second cervical vertebra : AXIS
62
Eroded : EATEN
63
Russian news service : TASS
64
M.I.T. essential : MATH
65
Litmus ___ : TEST
66
Road sign : SLOW
Down
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Ewe's plaint : BAA
2
"___ Do Is Dream of You" : ALLI
3
Stablemate of a sorrel : ROAN
4
Trifling sums : DRIBLETS
5
Anagram of Thebes : BEHEST
6
"___ Three Lives" : ILED
7
India's Shastri : LAL
8
Ericson : LEIF
9
Anagram of street : SETTER
10
Plot area : ACRE
11
Via's kin : ITER
12
John ___ : DOE
15
Rust : OXIDATE
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Midler role : ROSE
23
Pupils' covers : LIDS
26
Deodar, for one : CEDAR
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Suppress : ELIDE
28
Places for strikes : LANES
29
Aged: Lat. abbr. : AETAT
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Gandhi, for one : HINDU
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___ form (superb) : INTOP
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"With ___ bodkin?": Hamlet : ABARE
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Zenith's opposite : NADIR
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"Le Coq ___" : DOR
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Cache : SECRETE
40
Display of a famed portraitist's work : SARGENTS
42
Homophone for bin : BEEN
43
Cinema's Zola : MUNI
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Anagram of reship : PERISH
47
Anagram of tinsel or enlist : SILENT
50
Six: Comb. form : HEXA
51
Skip : OMIT
52
This's associate : THAT
53
Near, in Nice : PRES
54
Sincere : REAL
55
Ordinary : SOSO
56
Rayburn or Browne : SAM
58
Hot time in Le Havre : ETE
60
Austl. state : NSW

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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