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Vaughn Keith
Vaughn Keith

New York Times, Saturday, December 27, 1980

47-Down : Home for Juan

Author:
Vaughn Keith
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { W X Y }, Scrabble score: 321 (avg 1.74)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 12, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Vaughn Keith has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,372
Across
1
Scottish caps : TAMS
5
Man for whom the Reo was named : OLDS
9
A few : SOME
13
Jai ___ : ALAI
14
Léonie's laughter : RIRE
15
Examine : QUIZ
16
Rope fiber : BAST
17
Water, in Palermo : ACQUA
18
Initials since 1922 : USSR
19
Irish whisky : USQUEBAUGH
21
Singer James : ETTA
22
Incumbent upon : UPTO
23
"___ mio" : OSOLE
25
"___ Haw," TV show : HEE
27
Completed : OVER
29
Silenced, in a way : GAGGED
33
Where Shah Jahan built a mausoleum : AGRA
35
Goddess who caused much ado : ERIS
37
Marie Thérèse, for one : REINE
38
Native of Mosul : IRAQI
40
Prefix meaning "the same" : ISO
41
Bigwigs on campus : DEANS
42
Sick of the rat race : FEDUP
43
Another prefix meaning "the same" : EQUI
45
In a ___ (upset) : SNIT
46
Parade-ground command : ATEASE
48
Cubitus : ULNA
50
Monogram of a great poet : TSE
51
Half of a 60's comedy team : ROSSI
53
Arrow poison : UPAS
55
Je ne sais ___ : QUOI
58
Adjective for "Tom Jones" : PICARESQUE
62
Dipper milieu : URSA
63
Tarsus : ANKLE
64
Nomadic Moslem : KURD
65
Tennis score, for short : ADIN
66
Refusals : NOES
67
Agree : JIBE
68
Crooner Columbo: 1908-34 : RUSS
69
Wig style : AFRO
70
Arabian gulf : ADEN
Down
1
Freud's "Totem und ___" : TABU
2
"___! poor Yorick" : ALAS
3
Pretense : MASQUERADE
4
Basic exercise unit : SITUP
5
Killer whale : ORCA
6
Ogden Nash statement vis-à-vis candy : LIQUORISQUICKER
7
Amphetamines : DRUGS
8
Porpoise : SEAHOG
9
Window washers' tools : SQUEEGEES
10
Winkle out : OUST
11
Hazard for a helmsman : MIST
12
Biblical scribe : EZRA
17
More than : ABOVE
20
W.W. II setting : ETO
24
Contents of a tub : LARD
25
Israeli port : HAIFA
26
Kind of monkey : EGRET
28
Canal of song : ERIE
30
The largest invertebrate : GIANTSQUID
31
Bandleader Skinnay : ENNIS
32
Villa ___, in Tivoli : DESTE
34
Lincoln, F.D.R. et al. : AQUARIANS
36
Miedaner's "The ___ of Anna Klane": 1977 : SOUL
39
___ facto : IPSO
44
Habituate : INURE
47
Home for Juan : ESPANA
49
Orangutan, e.g. : APE
52
"The ___ Madelon Claudet," 1932 film : SINOF
54
Icelandic volcano : ASKJA
55
A fraction, fractionally : QUAR
56
Variant of Hindi : URDU
57
Medical suffix : OSIS
59
" ... believe ___ in me": John 14:1 : ALSO
60
Barcelona or Madrid : URBE
61
Shangri-La of a sort : EDEN

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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