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Dale O. Burgener
Dale O. Burgener

New York Times, Wednesday, August 15, 1984

10-Down : Tourists, often

Author:
Dale O. Burgener
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Dale O. Burgener has 16 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,699
Across
1
Duke's castle, e.g. : HOME
5
Guest's sojourn : VISIT
10
Cleaner's concern : SPOT
14
Olfactory stimulant : ODOR
15
Notched, as a leaf : EROSE
16
Edible arum : TARO
17
Londoner's term for the installment plan : NEVERNEVER
19
Field : AREA
20
"Ode on a ___ Urn" : GRECIAN
21
Oz's ___ City : EMERALD
23
Swift creations : TALES
25
Angers : IRES
26
Burnett or Channing : CAROL
29
Idyllic utopia : SHANGRILA
33
Card game : HEARTS
35
Russian river : OKA
36
British carbine : STEN
37
Cab. post : AGR
38
Emulate the Mayos : OPERATE
41
Peculiar : ODD
42
100 sen in Cambodia : RIEL
44
Spire adorner : EPI
45
Likeness one might not like : EFFIGY
47
Where many visit but few stay : DREAMLAND
50
Vanishes bit by bit : FADES
51
Signet : SEAL
52
Apply oneself to : GETAT
54
A sheikdom : BAHRAIN
57
Type of road : MACADAM
61
"Thanks ___" : ALOT
62
Camp Fire Girls' activity : NATURELORE
64
Poet laureate: 1715 : ROWE
65
Growl : GNARR
66
Earthly paradise : EDEN
67
Loch in the news : NESS
68
Impudent : SASSY
69
Merely O.K. : SOSO
Down
1
Kong preceder : HONG
2
Breslau's river : ODER
3
Change position : MOVE
4
Builder : ERECTOR
5
Corruptible : VENAL
6
Dunne and Rich : IRENES
7
Former Soho coin : SOV
8
What "video" means : ISEE
9
End : TERMINATE
10
Tourists, often : STARERS
11
Like fleas and ticks : PARASITOID
12
City on the Oka : OREL
13
Warty amphibian : TOAD
18
Theater district : RIALTO
22
Work unit : ERG
24
Proper job for a supporter? : SHORING
26
Swiss ___ : CHARD
27
Teutonic god : AEGIR
28
Cheap spectacles : RAREESHOWS
30
Alias, for short : AKA
31
Shelf : LEDGE
32
Rooney and Williams : ANDYS
34
Transliterators' problems : SPELLINGS
39
Govt. ecology office : EPA
40
Scratch out : EFFACE
43
Ophelia's brother : LAERTES
46
Femmes ___ : FATALES
48
Lea sound : MAA
49
Objects : DEMURS
53
Loiter : TARRY
54
Ideal home for mousers : BARN
55
S. African lily : ALOE
56
Juan's grandma : NANA
58
Dead as a ___ : DODO
59
Atalanta's lover : ARES
60
Less, in music : MENO
63
London donees' words : TAS

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

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