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James R. Burns
James R. Burns

New York Times, Tuesday, June 17, 1986

5-Down : Ostentatious display

Author:
James R. Burns
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { F Q Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
James R. Burns has 36 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,370
Across
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Heroic tales : SAGAS
6
Cross purposes : ODDS
10
Brainstorm : IDEA
14
Doll up : PRIMP
15
Assigned route : BEAT
16
Burning glass : LENS
17
Affable : CIVIL
18
Parrot : ECHO
19
Shoemaker's item : LAST
20
Tossed greens, egg and croutons : CAESARSALAD
23
Bitterly regret : RUE
24
Look to be : SEEM
25
Woodsman's call : TIMBER
27
Actress Jill : STJOHN
31
Leader of a flock : PASTOR
33
East Asian river : AMUR
34
Kind of V.P. : ASST
36
Jam : CRUSH
39
Trusting : RELIANT
41
Gandhi title : MAHATMA
43
Skull protuberance : INION
44
Harrow's sports rival : ETON
46
Hard animal fat : SUET
47
In the previous month : ULTIMO
49
Chinese idols : JOSSES
51
Milk protein : CASEIN
53
Bard's river : AVON
55
Sea inlet : ARM
56
Olympic light-heavyweight champion: 1960 : CASSIUSCLAY
62
Twofold : DUAL
64
Former Haig command : NATO
65
Muse of love poetry : ERATO
66
Longest Spanish river : EBRO
67
A biographer of Henry James : EDEL
68
Less exciting : TAMER
69
Kind of stand : TAXI
70
National League entry : REDS
71
Pretentious airs : SWANK
Down
1
Child-welfare org. : SPCC
2
Met number : ARIA
3
Yield to pressure : GIVE
4
Friends, in France : AMIS
5
Ostentatious display : SPLASH
6
Corpulent : OBESE
7
Flees : DECAMPS
8
Welsh author Roald : DAHL
9
Brown-coated ermines : STOATS
10
Under the weather : ILL
11
J. M. Barrie play: 1917 : DEARBRUTUS
12
Come next : ENSUE
13
Daisy relative : ASTER
21
French historian-critic: 1823-92 : RENAN
22
Jettison : DITCH
26
Low, wet ground : MORASS
27
Indian dress : SARI
28
Currency watchdogs : TMEN
29
Man called Groucho : JULIUSMARX
30
Baltimore athlete : ORIOLE
32
Vapor: Comb. form : ATMO
35
Check : STEM
37
River duck : SMEE
38
Bowlers and boaters : HATS
40
"___ Hay": Huxley : ANTIC
42
Pear variety : ANJOU
45
Drank to the health of : TOASTED
48
More foolish : INANER
50
Attacks : ONSETS
51
West Pointer : CADET
52
Island off Venezuela : ARUBA
54
Stringed instruments : VIOLS
57
Marquis de ___ : SADE
58
Bird's crop : CRAW
59
Dalai ___ : LAMA
60
Egyptian symbol : ATEN
61
Eboracum, today : YORK
63
Law, in France : LOI

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

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