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Nancy McCarthy
Nancy McCarthy

New York Times, Thursday, August 15, 1985

10-Down : Overburdens

Author:
Nancy McCarthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Nancy McCarthy has 47 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,064
Across
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Menace for Cleo's subjects : CROC
5
Goof : FLUB
9
Pirate pelf : SWAG
13
___ Alto : PALO
14
Cattail of India : REREE
16
"___ Smile Be ... " : LETA
17
Oppresses : OVERWEIGHS
19
River isles : AITS
20
Mister, in Messina : SIGNOR
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Consuming totally : EATINGUP
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Produce Pilsner : BREW
25
Cardinal compass point : NORTH
26
Blind alleys : IMPASSES
30
Sadat's predecessor : NASSER
33
Fine silk net : TULLE
34
Kind of stitch or weave : SATIN
36
___ volente : DEO
37
Of a period : ERAL
38
Brownish photo : SEPIA
39
Business abbr. : CORP
40
"Darling buds" time : MAY
41
Young haddock : SCROD
42
Kind of knife : BOWIE
43
Soprano from W. Va. : STEBER
45
Coated a soldering iron : RETINNED
47
Obsolete : DATED
49
Mailed : SENT
50
Some pedestrians : CROSSERS
53
London's ___ Arch : MARBLE
57
Garbo film: 1927 : LOVE
58
Softpedaled; de-emphasized : DOWNPLAYED
60
Home of the Cyclones : AMES
61
Ten in two, on an alley : SPARE
62
Rough, rugged rock : CRAG
63
Start suddenly : DART
64
Lustrous mineral : SPAR
65
Shoe size : TENE
Down
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Naval noncoms : CPOS
2
Sitarist Shankar : RAVI
3
Cassini, the couturier : OLEG
4
Fuddy-duddy or schmaltzer : CORNBALL
5
Jacques et al. : FRERES
6
Garland for Ho : LEI
7
Exhort : URGE
8
"Borstal Boy" playwright : BEHAN
9
One's opinions : SLANTS
10
Overburdens : WEIGHSDOWN
11
Volcanic island near Russia : ATTU
12
Inhale suddenly : GASP
15
Tallinn's locale : ESTONIA
18
Less desirable : WORSE
22
Ayatollah's land : IRAN
24
German river : WESER
26
Details : ITEMS
27
"Dandy King" of Naples: 1808 : MURAT
28
Took it from the top, musically : PLAYEDOVER
29
Flavor : SAPOR
31
Hair-raising : EERIE
32
Tethered tightly : ROPED
35
Proverbial non-waiters : TIDES
38
Tirades : SCREEDS
39
Kind of bridge : CONTRACT
41
Defeats a declarer : SETS
42
Double : BINAL
44
Most meanspirited : BASEST
46
Moderate : TEMPER
48
Stage devices : DROPS
50
Dressed : CLAD
51
Where the Tevere flows : ROMA
52
Quid-pro-quo deal : SWAP
54
Stable for Jersey's Jerseys : BYRE
55
Like Cassius : LEAN
56
Barely beat : EDGE
59
Blue Eagle inits. : NRA

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

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