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Nancy McCarthy
Nancy McCarthy

New York Times, Monday, June 23, 1986

34-Down : Handle clumsily

Author:
Nancy McCarthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J Q V Y Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Nancy McCarthy has 47 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,376
Across
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Knight's trainee : PAGE
5
"___ pray" : LETUS
10
Bye-bye in Bristol : TATA
14
Spanish water : AGUA
15
Ammonia compound : AMINE
16
U.S. journalist Jacob : RIIS
17
Luau garlands : LEIS
18
Garments of the 60's : MINISKIRTS
20
Fusible : MELTABLE
22
San ___ (Hearst mansion) : SIMEON
23
Roundish projection : LOBE
24
Scene : SITE
25
"The ___ Sixpence": Maugham : MOONAND
28
Append : POSTFIX
32
Brown ale mo : OCT
33
Fetchit of films : STEPIN
35
Gaelic : ERSE
36
"___ to sew ... " : ATIME
38
Moccasin : PAC
39
Laundromat machine : DRIER
40
Sinew: Comb. form : TENO
41
Ivanhoe's lady : ROWENA
43
Three, in Taranto : TRE
44
Astral : STELLAR
46
Lowers in rank : DEMOTES
48
Grammatical no-no : AINT
49
Umpire's call : SAFE
50
Hilltops : CRESTS
53
Emancipates : SETSFREE
57
Rickety : RAMSHACKLE
59
One of the Yugoslavs : SERB
60
Chills and fever : AGUE
61
Heart, to Henri : COEUR
62
A Great Lake : ERIE
63
Good Queen ___ : BESS
64
Ships, to Swinburne : KEELS
65
Nicholas or Peter : TSAR
Down
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Hand area : PALM
2
Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1958 : AGEE
3
Reign of Terror instrument : GUILLOTINE
4
Lafayette is here : EASTON
5
Softly bright : LAMBENT
6
Jannings or Ludwig : EMIL
7
Fork feature : TINE
8
Start for cycle or sex : UNI
9
Legislative get-together : SESSION
10
Kind of verse : TRIMETER
11
Yorkshire river : AIRE
12
Broz : TITO
13
Soc. : ASSN
19
Tool sets : KITS
21
Demean : ABASE
24
Added condiments : SPICED
25
Defense ditches : MOATS
26
Double quartet : OCTET
27
Expel from a country : DEPORT
29
Wastrels : FRITTERERS
30
French river : ISERE
31
Sherry wine : XERES
34
Handle clumsily : PAW
37
Treacle : MOLASSES
39
Ladies of Spain : DAMAS
41
Search vigorously : RANSACK
42
Squatters : NESTERS
45
Neighbor of Pol. : LITH
47
Counterbalance : OFFSET
50
Grouch : CRAB
51
Furor : RAGE
52
Down Under birds : EMUS
53
Kind of trap : SKEE
54
Jewish month : ELUL
55
Assam silk supplier : ERIA
56
A descendant of Shem : EBER
58
British miler Sebastian : COE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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