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Virginia L. Yates
Virginia L. Yates

New York Times, Monday, April 29, 1985

50-Down : A parent, to Pompey

Author:
Virginia L. Yates
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 4.89, Missing: { none — this is a pangram }, Scrabble score: 299 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Virginia L. Yates has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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J
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B
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,956
Across
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Glassmakers' ovens : LEHRS
6
Menagerie : ZOO
9
"___ immortality and joy": Milton : QUAFF
14
Of birds : AVIAN
15
"___ Town": Wilder : OUR
16
Useful : UTILE
17
Small potatoes : PENNYANTE
19
Book of maps : ATLAS
20
Kind of European : INDO
21
Farrow of films : MIA
22
Takes a break : RESTS
23
Sensational : STUNNING
25
Lincoln in N.Y.C., e.g. : CTR
26
Role for a lissome lass : INGENUE
28
Pickle : JAM
31
Mel of many voices : BLANC
35
Sedateness : SOBRIETY
37
Scolds : REBUKES
40
Emmanuel Lewis TV role : WEBSTER
41
One way to buy : ONCREDIT
43
Bewildered : ATSEA
44
Saw's anagram : WAS
45
Concise : LACONIC
48
Pop's partner : MOM
49
Flat-crowned hats : PORKPIES
54
Crab Louis, e.g. : SALAD
57
Sp. lady : SRA
58
Smell ___ : ARAT
59
Sunflowerlike perennial : OXEYE
60
Knick-knack shop : DIMESTORE
62
Knee-bending dance : LIMBO
63
Author Tarbell : IDA
64
Revenue, in Rennes : RENTE
65
Ruhr city : ESSEN
66
Thicken : GEL
67
Welles of "Citizen Kane" : ORSON
Down
1
___ lazuli : LAPIS
2
Happening : EVENT
3
Gandhi was one : HINDU
4
Chattered incessantly : RANON
5
Shipbuilder's warp : SNY
6
Kind of city ordinance : ZONING
7
Power failures : OUTAGES
8
Cinnabar, for one : ORE
9
Signalman of sorts : QUARTERBACK
10
Total : UTTER
11
Troubles : AILS
12
Tire gone bad : FLAT
13
One of the Parkers : FESS
18
Lebanon's ___ Gemayel : AMIN
24
One-time amusement-park favorite : NICKELODEON
25
Ice unit : CUBE
27
This minute : NOW
28
Team Namath once led : JETS
29
Fit to ___ : ATEE
30
"___ Breckinridge": Vidal : MYRA
31
Edge of a steep place : BROW
32
Chanteuse Horne : LENA
33
Fundamentals : ABCS
34
Only, in Ulm : NUR
36
Ending for violin or vocal : IST
38
A Dutch treat : EDAM
39
"___ 'em!" : SIC
42
Main deck : TOPSIDE
46
Typical : NORMAL
47
"Dies ___" : IRAE
48
Perhaps : MAYBE
50
A parent, to Pompey : PATER
51
Presses : IRONS
52
With an ___ the ground : EARTO
53
"Skittle Players" painter : STEEN
54
Lone : SOLE
55
Plant stem : AXIS
56
Space-machine units : LEMS
60
Get the picture : DIG
61
Hit sign : SRO

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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