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Frank Geary
Frank Geary

New York Times, Saturday, June 21, 1980

45-Down : Purfles

Author:
Frank Geary
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { B J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 251 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Frank Geary has 27 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,183
Across
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Wearing brogans : SHOD
5
"Eye in the sky" : SAMOS
10
Niacin, e.g. : ACID
14
Twining plant : TARE
15
City in Utah : PROVO
16
Poem by Victor Hugo : LANE
17
Latvian city : RIGA
18
Leporidae : HARES
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"How now! ___?": Hamlet : ARAT
20
Inclusive abbr. : ETAL
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___ effort : EFOR
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Grimalkin : CRONE
23
Solstices : WINTERANDSUMMER
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Rent : LET
27
Word with fish or lock : OAR
28
Deloul or hageen : CAMEL
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Liqueur : ANISETTE
37
End of a Stein line re pigeons : ALAS
38
Simulated : ACTED
40
Sheepskin used in bookbinding : ROAN
41
Bodily : PERSONAL
43
"I intended ___": Dobson : ANODE
44
Month: Abbr. : NOV
45
Writers' changes: Abbr. : AAS
47
Equinox times : AUTUMNANDSPRING
56
Having a long, narrow muzzle : SNIPY
57
Pas-de-Calais town : LOOS
58
Antithesis of apteral : ALAR
59
Affront : SLAP
60
Chile-to-England shipment : NITRE
61
Precise : NICE
62
Former name of a European republic : EIRE
63
Brakes : FERNS
64
___ du Nord, Parisian depot : GARE
65
Aldebaran is one : STAR
66
Plant of the mustard family : CRESS
67
Priestley's "___ End" : EDEN
Down
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Broadcast : STREW
2
Part of Hispaniola : HAITI
3
Wind instrument : ORGAN
4
Distributed : DEALT
5
Globe : SPHERE
6
P.L.O. leader : ARAFAT
7
Andalusian city : MORON
8
Charred, as chateaubriand : OVERDONE
9
Sparks's plea : SOS
10
Startle : ALARM
11
Mosconi ploy : CAROM
12
Vacant : INANE
13
Arrest : DETER
22
Some are in pounds : CURS
24
House extension : ELL
25
Reputed to be : SAID
28
Coif : CAP
29
Welsh rabbit ingredient, often : ALE
30
Disserve : MAR
31
Lisper's nemesis : ESS
32
Expanse east of N.A. : ATL
33
Relative of a fulmar : ERN
34
Also : TOO
35
Pulitzer Prize playwright Mosel : TAD
36
Direction letters : ENE
38
Prolific author, for short : ANON
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Supercilious : CAVALIER
42
"Gentle ___ Mind," 1967 hit : ONMY
43
Deadly creature : ASP
45
Purfles : ADORNS
46
Evaluate : ASSESS
47
Kiangs : ASSES
48
Like a region during an outage : UNLIT
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Diadem of a sort : TIARA
50
Shoe part : UPPER
51
___ Dame : NOTRE
52
Scope : RANGE
53
Homeric work : ILIAD
54
Mother-of-pearl : NACRE
55
Immature : GREEN
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Org. for Cowboys, Giants et al. : NFC

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

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