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John H. Hales
John H. Hales

New York Times, Friday, July 6, 1984

25-Down : Squirrellike rodent

Author:
John H. Hales
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F J Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
John H. Hales has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,659
Across
1
Round Table hero : GALAHAD
8
Downy surface : NAP
11
Pioneer suffragist's initials : SBA
14
Go ___ (try on one's own) : ITALONE
15
Get on : AGE
16
Dernier ___ (newest fashion) : CRI
17
Hiawatha's grandmother : NOKOMIS
18
Calls to quarters : TATTOOS
20
Condiment : RELISH
22
Rommel, the Desert Fox : ERWIN
23
Pipe bends : ELLS
26
French air squadron : ESCADRILLE
28
Caviar : ROE
29
Kind of fork : TUNING
30
Strict disciplinarian : MARTINET
34
King Lear's second daughter : REGAN
37
Bedizened : ADORNED
38
Shipworms : TEREDOS
40
Cache of valuables : STASH
41
Female social club : SORORITY
42
Guianan dugout canoe : CORIAL
44
Legal point : RES
45
Dull : LACKLUSTER
49
"___ we forget ... " : LEST
50
See eye to eye : AGREE
51
Cylindrical : TERETE
53
One who pines : YEARNER
55
Unyielding : ADAMANT
59
U.S.N.A. grad. : ENS
60
One-fifth of DLV : CXI
61
Drummer of a sort : TABORER
62
Civil or human follower: Abbr. : RTS
63
Bus-sched. entry : ETA
64
Trap : ENSNARE
Down
1
This may need a tonic : GIN
2
From ___ Z : ATO
3
"Mighty ___ a Rose" : LAK
4
Offhand expression in Paris : ALORS
5
Plate at Shea : HOME
6
Old-womanish : ANILE
7
Refrained from : DESISTED
8
Hale fellow : NATHAN
9
Moslem bigwig : AGA
10
Pop pianist : PETERNERO
11
Show displeasure : SCOWL
12
Tumult : BROIL
13
River flowing into the Oise : AISNE
19
Roy Rogers's palomino : TRIGGER
21
Rabbit's tail : SCUT
23
Writer Bombeck : ERMA
24
Places a burden upon : LOADS
25
Squirrellike rodent : LEROT
27
More urgent : DIRER
31
Sleuth : TRACKER
32
Arrogance : INSOLENCE
33
India's first prime minister : NEHRU
35
C'est-___ (namely) : ADIRE
36
Observes : NOTES
38
Endure : TOLERATE
39
School supt.'s domain : SYST
41
Glut : SATE
43
Adriatic peninsula : ISTRIA
45
Cake part : LAYER
46
Bond or Smiley : AGENT
47
Insensitive : CRASS
48
V-shaped fortification : REDAN
49
"Caveat emptor" item : LEMON
52
Diners' concerns : TABS
54
Opposite of int. : EXT
56
Macaw : ARA
57
Saul's grandfather or uncle : NER
58
Quattro preceder : TRE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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