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Christy Ridley
Christy Ridley

New York Times, Thursday, February 28, 1985

56-Down : Like flax

Author:
Christy Ridley
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { G J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Christy Ridley has 54 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,896
Across
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Picot feature : LOOP
5
Chair-back piece : SPLAT
10
"I lift my ___ ... ": Lazarus : LAMP
14
Tropical dog : ALCO
15
Inquiry : PROBE
16
Winged : ALAR
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Is right on the mark : HITSTHEBULLSEYE
20
Down Under beast : ROO
21
Button in a laundry : RESET
22
Test : ASSAY
23
Agora : MART
24
March 15 in Milano : IDI
25
Biblical passage for a camel : THEEYEOFANEEDLE
33
Great amount : REAMS
34
London's "The ___ Heel" : IRON
35
Norse healer : EIR
36
Kind of saxophone : ALTO
37
Bedeck : ADORN
39
Prickly pear : TUNA
40
Prevail : WIN
41
Circuit : TOUR
42
Factions : SECTS
43
Show confidence : LOOKONEINTHEEYE
47
Native: Suffix : ITE
48
Banshee's bailiwick : ERIN
49
Blue planet : EARTH
52
Pooped : ALLIN
54
Adherent : IST
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Campus org. : ROTC
61
Peerce was one : TENOR
62
Observe : VIEW
63
Home of the Jazz : UTAH
64
Husks of grains of wheat, etc. : BRANS
65
Discover : ESPY
Down
1
A memorable Bert : LAHR
2
Hodgepodge : OLIO
3
Eight: Comb. form : OCTO
4
Opposite of neg. : POS
5
Orb : SPHERE
6
Quickly : PRESTO
7
Place for a pendant : LOBE
8
Border on : ABUT
9
Distant: Comb. form : TEL
10
Knight creation : LASSIE
11
Midi city : ALES
12
Uxmal aborigine : MAYA
13
Mouse, to a skunk : PREY
18
Receptacles : TRAYS
19
Burdened : LADEN
23
Exec's reminder : MEMO
24
Party to : INON
25
Large conical net : TRAWL
26
Garden flower, for short : HELIO
27
" ... could ___ fat" : EATNO
28
Flowers, in Firenze : FIORI
29
Abbr. at O'Hare : ARR
30
Wild card, sometimes : DEUCE
31
Full of fuzz : LINTY
32
Delete : ERASE
37
First-rate : AONE
38
Rightful : DUE
39
Youth : TEEN
41
Woolf's "___ Lighthouse" : TOTHE
42
Glistening : SHINY
44
Showy, shallow art : KITSCH
45
Trafalgar Square statue : NELSON
46
Judges : TRIERS
49
Grayish yellow : ECRU
50
Much : ALOT
51
Roll; list : ROTA
52
Male ant : ANER
53
Commune in NW Spain : LENA
54
Egyptian goddess of fertility : ISIS
55
Pace : STEP
56
Like flax : TOWY
58
N.Y.C. gambling initials : OTB
59
Vigil : EVE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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