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Virginia L. Yates
Virginia L. Yates

New York Times, Monday, July 21, 1986

28-Down : Top-drawer

Author:
Virginia L. Yates
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 310 (avg 1.66)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 12, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Virginia L. Yates has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,404
Across
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Take a ___ at (try) : STAB
5
Exude : EMIT
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To one's liking : SAPID
14
Humdinger : LULU
15
Soprano Ponselle : ROSA
16
Came up : AROSE
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Soldier's outfit : UNIT
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Unfair : NOTCRICKET
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Jutted : BEETLED
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Linseed ___ : OIL
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"___ I was old!": Coleridge : ERE
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Desirable street : EASY
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Maker of archery gear : BOWYER
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Vegetable accompanying a stick : CARROT
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Denizen of the veld : ZEBRA
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___ it (walks) : HOOFS
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Emerged, as into view : HOVE
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Went like a house afire : SPED
38
Deep blue : ANIL
39
___ 'em (was a hit) : WOWED
40
Puckish one : PIXY
41
Eatery of a sort : DELI
42
Honeybee genus : APIS
43
Rhea or Hyperion : TITAN
44
Murphy of the movies : EDDIE
46
PBS's "___ Street" : SESAME
47
Overlooked : MISSED
50
Former Iranian title : SHAH
51
___ loss for words : ATA
52
Bug-caused ailment : FLU
54
Alabama Staters : HORNETS
58
Photography fanatic : SHUTTERBUG
61
Poet Pound : EZRA
62
Of sound : TONAL
63
Philippine archipelago : SULU
64
Thailand's former name : SIAM
65
Theatrical : STAGY
66
"What a piece of work is ___!": Hamlet : AMAN
67
"___ of These Days": Sophie Tucker theme : SOME
Down
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Lump in yarn : SLUB
2
Do a job on the piano : TUNE
3
" ... nothing can need ___": George Herbert : ALIE
4
Queasy feeling : BUTTERFLIES
5
Seton or Hemingway : ERNEST
6
Morose, at times : MOODY
7
Moral ending : IST
8
Tortilla treat : TACO
9
Bluejacket : SAILOR
10
Part of a circle : ARC
11
Cooler : POKEY
12
Rhone tributary : ISERE
13
Prevent : DETER
19
Teased : RIBBED
21
Burmese neighbor : LAOS
26
Petulance : WASPISHNESS
27
N'Djamena's country : CHAD
28
Top-drawer : AONE
29
Churn up : ROIL
30
Hot dog! : ZOWIE
31
Times before holidays : EVES
33
Pueblo builder : HOPI
35
Flat Arab bread : PITA
36
Final, for one : EXAM
37
Unit of force : DYNE
39
Walk like a duck : WADDLE
43
Scurry : TEAR
45
With finesse : DEFTLY
46
TV miniseries: 1980 : SHOGUN
47
Spars : MASTS
48
"Some Like ___," 1959 film : ITHOT
49
Ski resort amenity : SAUNA
50
Don of the Dolphins : SHULA
53
She-bear, to Brutus : URSA
55
Pinza of "South Pacific" : EZIO
56
Mine vehicle : TRAM
57
Identical : SAME
59
___ end (remnant) : TAG
60
Cadge : BUM

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

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