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Peter G. Snow
Peter G. Snow

New York Times, Saturday, December 21, 1985

40-Down : Glen

Author:
Peter G. Snow
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 263 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Peter G. Snow has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,192
Across
1
Javelin or Jensen : CAR
4
Summer : ADDER
9
General's pinup : MAP
12
"Sustineo ___," U.S.A.F. motto : ALAS
14
Permission : LEAVE
15
Rooftree, figuratively : HOME
16
Like Gomez or Grove : LEFTHANDED
18
Coloratura Mills : ERIE
19
Concerns of Keats : METRES
20
Gordon Jenkins was one : ARRANGER
22
Ottawa's gift to songdom : ANKA
24
It's full of hot air : SAUNA
25
Porter products : MUSICALS
29
Kind of butter : PEANUT
32
Skirt type : ALINE
33
He fails to pass the bar : TOPER
35
Honest follower : ABE
36
Bonifaces' places : INNS
37
Bamboo stems : CANES
38
Sioux : OTOE
39
Medieval tale : LAI
40
Nereids' mother : DORIS
41
Pertaining to bees : APIAN
42
Sonnet part : SESTET
44
Emends : CORRECTS
46
Lists : TILTS
48
Ink : SIGN
49
Beats all hollow : SHELLACS
52
Where Conakry is : GUINEA
56
Rigid : HARD
57
Awkward fellow's problem : GAUCHENESS
59
Dashiell contemporary : ERLE
60
Opt : ELECT
61
Roscoes : GATS
62
Actress Susan : DEY
63
Hindu garments : SARIS
64
Blue Jays or Orioles : TEN
Down
1
Windless : CALM
2
Opposite of aweather : ALEE
3
Actor in "Scarface": 1932 : RAFT
4
State sometimes baked? : ALASKA
5
Lair : DEN
6
Tzara's cult : DADA
7
Tinker's target : EVERS
8
Anagram for spreader : REDRAPES
9
Of a form of marriage : MORGANATIC
10
Nice girlfriend : AMIE
11
Viscount, e.g. : PEER
13
Lineages : STRAINS
15
A dye : HENNA
17
Ergo : HENCE
21
Famed Hungarian violinist: 1845-1930 : AUER
23
Dürer's "Paumgärtner ___" : ALTAR
25
Posts : MAILS
26
Radii neighbors : ULNAE
27
In an ominous way : SINISTERLY
28
Type of boom : SONIC
30
Untersee craft : UBOAT
31
Chief buyers of albums : TEENS
34
Leyte currency : PESOS
37
Peasant abodes : COTTAGES
38
Aperture : OPENING
40
Glen : DELL
41
Logomachize : ARGUE
43
Portuguese diacritical mark : TILDE
45
Natural privileges : RIGHTS
47
Actress Gia ___: 1934-72 : SCALA
49
Emit : SHED
50
Tortoise's rival : HARE
51
Sewer homophone : SUER
53
Undiluted : NEAT
54
East, in Acapulco : ESTE
55
Org. : ASSN
58
Year in Severus's reign : CCI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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