This web browser is not supported. Use Chrome, Edge, Safari, or Firefox for best results.
Jim Modney
Jim Modney

New York Times, Thursday, April 12, 1984

32-Down : Heaters' kin

Author:
Jim Modney
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { K Q }, Scrabble score: 337 (avg 1.82)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Jim Modney has 14 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
1
L
2
A
3
B
4
D
5
E
6
E
7
R
8
E
9
R
10
O
11
T
12
E
13
S
14
A
B
A
15
A
X
M
A
N
16
E
V
E
N
T
17
B
O
B
18
B
Y
P
I
N
S
19
R
E
D
D
Y
20
O
V
E
R
S
O
L
D
21
C
U
R
D
22
R
E
S
E
T
23
M
O
N
E
Y
24
E
25
D
26
W
A
27
R
28
T
A
X
29
A
B
L
E
30
A
31
F
32
T
33
R
E
34
L
A
X
35
T
E
A
L
36
C
L
O
37
T
38
X
A
X
I
39
S
40
S
A
T
E
41
M
I
M
E
42
T
I
M
E
43
R
44
R
E
D
45
E
R
M
A
46
A
H
S
47
W
E
48
T
49
S
T
Y
R
50
E
N
E
51
L
A
52
P
53
A
54
Z
55
G
O
N
E
56
V
57
O
58
C
A
L
I
Z
E
59
J
60
O
U
S
T
61
B
I
L
L
Y
C
L
U
B
62
I
N
N
E
R
63
E
N
D
U
E
64
E
R
R
65
M
E
S
S
Y
66
D
O
S
E
D
67
S
E
A
© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,574
Across
1
R.P.I. room : LAB
4
Steel-plow entrepreneur : DEERE
9
Learning methods : ROTES
14
Garb for Omar : ABA
15
Lumberjack : AXMAN
16
Super Bowl or World Series : EVENT
17
Coiffure items : BOBBYPINS
19
Aussie songbird : REDDY
20
Promised the moon : OVERSOLD
21
Muffet morsel : CURD
22
Change from E.S.T. to D.S.T. : RESET
23
Like Warbucks : MONEYED
26
Apocalypse omen : WAR
28
Levy : TAX
29
G.I.'s first letter : ABLE
30
Direction for Drake : AFT
33
Take ten : RELAX
35
Blue-winged quacker : TEAL
36
Jumbled mass : CLOT
38
Cartesian graph line : XAXIS
40
Appease fully : SATE
41
Mute actor : MIME
42
Kitchen gadget : TIMER
44
Type of herring : RED
45
Bombeck : ERMA
46
Some sighs : AHS
47
18th Amendment foe : WET
49
Model builder's material : STYRENE
51
City named "The Peace" : LAPAZ
55
Away : GONE
56
Put into words : VOCALIZE
59
Fight a knight : JOUST
61
Copper's persuader : BILLYCLUB
62
Word with tube : INNER
63
Imbue : ENDUE
64
Postulate a flat world : ERR
65
Like Oscar Madison : MESSY
66
Given medicine : DOSED
67
Celebes, for one : SEA
Down
1
Dig trenches : LABOR
2
Word with ground or board : ABOVE
3
Creatures in arms or woods : BABES
4
Sun, to Shelley : DAYSTAR
5
Montreal ballplayer : EXPO
6
Author Ludwig : EMIL
7
Cape Town dollar : RAND
8
Printers' measures : ENS
9
Network déjà vu : RERUN
10
Yields to esurience : OVEREATS
11
Plaything named for the 26th President : TEDDYBEAR
12
Sometimes it's bitter : END
13
Junior's room, often : STY
18
Steep : BREW
21
Tricia or Archibald : COX
23
Proverb : MAXIM
24
Bring glad tidings : ELATE
25
Struck out : DELED
27
"Oedipus ___" : REX
28
Yellow streakers in Gotham : TAXIS
30
High points : ACMES
31
She toys with the boys : FLIRT
32
Heaters' kin : TOMMYGUNS
34
Shaping machine : LATHE
37
Hybrid garden flowers : TEAROSES
39
Put in stitches : SEW
43
Passed the baton : RELAYED
46
Chemical ending : ANE
48
Apply a powder : TALC
50
Ingress : ENTRY
52
Dock supports : PILES
53
Cerulean shade : AZURE
54
Savanna sight : ZEBRA
56
Asti export : VINO
57
Auto pioneer : OLDS
58
Inkling : CLUE
59
Conrad's "Lord ___" : JIM
60
"___ man's meat... " : ONE
61
Pallet : BED

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.

Found bugs or have suggestions? Please let us know.

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

Previous puzzle | Next puzzle
XWord Info Home
XWord Info © 2007-2024, Jim Horne
50 ms