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Frances Hansen
Frances Hansen

New York Times, Thursday, March 26, 1987

6-Down : Wacko

Author:
Frances Hansen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { C J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Frances Hansen has 81 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 40 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,652
Across
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Whimper's alternative, at world's end : BANG
5
Smelting dross : SLAG
9
Facilitate : SPEED
14
Tribe in "The Time Machine" : ELOI
15
Greeting in the barrio : HOLA
16
Words on a Wonderland cake : EATME
17
Pop : SODA
18
Source : ROOT
19
Grass type : GRAMA
20
Song for a spaced-out batter? : SWINGINGONASTAR
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Shade of blue : NAVY
24
Function : ROLE
25
Sully : DEFILE
28
Browning's Vogler : ABT
29
Jannings of "The Blue Angel" : EMIL
33
Incommunicado : ALONE
34
Mine, in Metz : AMOI
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Cakes' literary partner : ALE
36
Song for a misguided tsetse? : FLYINGDOWNTORIO
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Thread: Comb. form : FIL
41
Billy ___, rock singer : IDOL
42
___-les-Bains, French spa : EVIAN
43
Flanders flower : YSER
45
Nice drink : VIN
46
___ Buck, 1985 Derby winner : SPENDA
47
Help a hood : ABET
49
Flatterer of a sort : APER
50
Song for a happy duck? : SINGININTHERAIN
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Dostoyevsky's Myshkin, e.g. : IDIOT
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Politician's plea : VOTE
59
Capable of : UPTO
60
Less : MINUS
61
"Cielo ___!," Ponchielli aria : EMAR
62
Apollo's mother : LETO
63
Like an Irish bog : PEATY
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Desiccated : SERE
65
Nebraskan Senator : EXON
Down
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Harry's wife : BESS
2
In the hold, asea : ALOW
3
Knotty situations : NODI
4
Big name in West Coast banking : GIANNINI
5
Pardon : SHRIVE
6
Wacko : LOONY
7
Like a bump on ___ : ALOG
8
Jacksonville scene of action : GATORBOWL
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"Love Story" author : SEGAL
10
A Zoroastrian : PARSEE
11
Coup d'___ : ETAT
12
Madame Bovary : EMMA
13
"___ Me," Ustinov autobiography : DEAR
21
Greek physician : GALEN
22
"Tell it ___ Gath" : NOTIN
25
Bonkers : DAFFY
26
Sex psychologist Havelock : ELLIS
27
Morley's Kitty : FOYLE
28
Start of an O'Neill title : AMOON
30
San Quentin's county : MARIN
31
Homeric work : ILIAD
32
Soprano Mitchell : LEONA
34
Coloring agents, e.g. : ADDITIVES
37
Specified, as a date : GIVEN
38
Hogan's kin : TEPEE
39
Reverse a court decision : OVERRULE
44
Spicy stew : RAGOUT
46
Field of activity : SPHERE
48
Itsy-___ : BITSY
49
Rose distillation : ATTAR
50
Chump : SIMP
51
" ... mortal or immortal, here ___": Melville : IDIE
52
Actress Foch : NINA
53
Gold-rush center: 1900 : NOME
54
Top : APEX
55
"Tell ___ the Marines!" : ITTO
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High time : NOON

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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