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Gayle Dean
Gayle Dean

New York Times, Tuesday, February 12, 1985

40-Down : Negatives

Author:
Gayle Dean
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { B F J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 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. 12,880
Across
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Solo : ALONE
6
As well : ALSO
10
Enjoy a quid : CHEW
14
Distributed : DEALT
15
Perches : SITS
16
Pedro's "Ahoy!" : HOLA
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"Festina lente" : MAKEHASTESLOWLY
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Here, in Paris : ICI
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Watery fluids : SERA
22
Zones : AREAS
23
Eliot work : THEWASTELAND
27
Director Howard : RON
28
Squatter : NESTER
32
Dali's homeland : SPAIN
35
Bank transaction : LOAN
38
Site of the Tell legend : URI
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43
Berenson's subject : ART
44
Pot item : ANTE
45
Obliterate : ERASE
46
Sly : TRICKY
49
Theater sign : SRO
50
Cornmeal mush : HASTYPUDDING
57
What a bigwig carries : CLOUT
60
Part : ROLE
61
Nothing : NIL
62
66
Make eyes at : OGLE
67
Brainstorm : IDEA
68
Violinist Isaac : STERN
69
Brassie, e.g. : WOOD
70
Cabbage; bread : GELT
71
He wrote "Too Late the Phalarope" : PATON
Down
1
Come clean : ADMIT
2
Cause filtering : LEACH
3
Jack of old films : OAKIE
4
Mets' div. : NLE
5
Afr. country : ETH
6
Pecuniary resource : ASSET
7
British measure : LITRE
8
Swipe : STEAL
9
W.W. II Govt. agency : OSS
10
Combinations of tones : CHORDS
11
Inventor Elias : HOWE
12
Singer Fitzgerald : ELLA
13
What E. B. Browning counted : WAYS
18
Org. : ASSN
19
"Daily Planet" employee : LANE
24
Formal order : WRIT
25
Tops : AONE
26
O'Neill's "___ Christie" : ANNA
29
Popular sandwich filler : TUNA
30
Aphrodite's son : EROS
31
Liturgy : RITE
32
Hit a gnat : SWAT
33
Young salmon : PARR
34
Italian wine city : ASTI
35
Chaney : LON
36
Teammate of Bill Terry : OTT
37
Veneration : AWE
40
Negatives : NAYS
41
A jerk : NERD
42
Trampled : TROD
47
Conveyed on a flume : CHUTED
48
Petruchio's wife : KATE
49
Takes to court : SUES
51
Commerce : TRADE
52
Hayseed : YOKEL
53
Skirt part : PLEAT
54
Atlas feature : INSET
55
Explosive, for short : NITRO
56
First orbiting American : GLENN
57
Vittles : CHOW
58
Como, to Carlos or Carlo : LAGO
59
Frogner Park's locale : OSLO
63
U.S.S.R. plane : MIG
64
O. Henry's monogram : WSP
65
One ___ time : ATA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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