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Sam Bellotto, Jr.
Sam Bellotto, Jr.

New York Times, Tuesday, May 3, 1988

8-Down : Spring back

Author:
Sam Bellotto, Jr.
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Sam Bellotto, Jr. has 10 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 5 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,056
Across
1
Pts.of cars : RADS
5
NASA, e.g. : ABBR
9
S.D.I. targets : ICBMS
14
Radiate : EMIT
15
Adjective for some gametes : MALE
16
Water wheel : NORIA
17
Prevaricator : LIAR
18
Part of C.P.U. : PROCESSING
20
Marital kin : INLAW
22
Poke one's ___ (interfere) : NOSEINTO
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Delicate : FRAIL
27
Unspoken : TACIT
32
Part of VCR : CASSETTE
36
"Mondo Cane" hit theme : MORE
37
Baptize : IMMERSE
38
Nonecclesiastical : SECULAR
41
TV's "___ of Duty" : TOUR
42
Another part of VCR : RECORDER
43
Rye fungus : ERGOT
45
Word in a closing : YOURS
46
Beginning of r.p.m. : REVOLUTIONS
52
German film about a clay statue: 1920 : THEGOLEM
56
Very bad : AWFUL
57
Characteristic of FM or AM : MODULATION
60
Black, to Calpurnia : ATRA
61
Chronicle : ANNAL
62
Start of TV : TELE
63
"___ we forget ... ": Kipling : LEST
64
Comes closer : NEARS
65
Q.E.D. member : ERAT
66
Patella : KNEE
Down
1
Souvenir : RELIC
2
Type of acid : AMINO
3
"___ for Murder" : DIALM
4
It's a cinch : STRAP
5
Unit of elec. : AMP
6
Forbid : BAR
7
Young comic heroine : BLONDIE
8
Spring back : RECOIL
9
Entomological specimen : INSECT
10
"___ Cosa," 1935 song : COSI
11
Fan rib : BRIN
12
Julep ingredient : MINT
13
Pudding thickener : SAGO
19
Sam has one : ESS
21
Thin, crisp cake : WAFER
24
Places for atts. : CRTS
25
Bollingen Prize winner: 1957 : TATE
28
Tatar Strait feeder : AMUR
29
Algid : COLD
30
Dies ___ : IRAE
31
Geog. region : TERR
32
Quote : CITE
33
Cupid : AMOR
34
Self-satisfied : SMUG
35
Virologist's comb. form : SERO
38
Pas ___ (solo dance) : SEUL
39
Beige : ECRU
40
___ Rica, C.A. : COSTA
42
More spacious : ROOMIER
44
Fishes on the move : TROLLS
45
Actress Mimieux : YVETTE
47
Old scale topper : ELA
48
"___ Line," Cash smash : IWALK
49
Frequently : OFTEN
50
Kind of shark : NURSE
51
Blackboard material : SLATE
52
One of the Feds : TMAN
53
Sharpen : HONE
54
Novelist Ferber : EDNA
55
Forage legume : GUAR
58
Biographer Winslow : OLA
59
Snood, e.g. : NET

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

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