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Gloria Evans
Gloria Evans

New York Times, Wednesday, August 17, 1988

26-Down : Intelligence man

Author:
Gloria Evans
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Gloria Evans has 10 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,162
Across
1
Goddess of plenty : OPS
4
Remunerated : PAID
8
Carangid fish : SCAD
12
Customary function : ROLE
14
Of sight : OPTIC
16
Biblical weed : TARE
17
CHIC ENG. PAL gets fruit : CLINGPEACH
19
Sicilian city : ENNA
20
Volume in a pew : HYMNAL
21
Brine : SEAWATER
23
O.T. book : OBAD
25
Aeschylus creation : DRAMA
26
Gave a shave and a haircut : BARBERED
30
Twelfth U.S. President : TAYLOR
33
Objects of adulation : IDOLS
34
Renaissance fiddle : REBEC
36
Be in arrears : OWE
37
The ___ King, foe of Oz : NOME
38
French Cubist painter : LEGER
39
Pale green moth : LUNA
40
Middle of a palindrome : ERE
41
Senegal's capital : DAKAR
42
Become attenuated, with "off" : TAPER
43
Souchong receptacle : TEAPOT
45
They try hard : STRIVERS
47
Martinique spouter : PELEE
49
Sphere or stich preceder : HEMI
50
Some touts : TIPSTERS
53
"The Heart Is a ___ Hunter": McCullers : LONELY
57
Heraldic band : ORLE
58
Fruit coming in NINE CRATES : NECTARINES
60
Formal assembly : DIET
61
Hair-raising : SCARY
62
Man Friday : AIDE
63
Greek peak : OSSA
64
Speaker of baseball : TRIS
65
Nabokov novel : DAR
Down
1
Mehta's gp., e.g. : ORCH
2
Kind of graph or ester : POLY
3
Pickens of films : SLIM
4
Wood used for pulp : POPLAR
5
Emulate : APE
6
"Play ___ It Lays": Didion : ITAS
7
Cut into cubes : DICED
8
Vaporous : STEAMY
9
LEAP A COUNT to get fruit : CANTALOUPE
10
"Artaxerxes" composer : ARNE
11
Expensive : DEAR
13
Elevate to dignity : ENNOBLE
15
Constitution : CHARTER
18
Tunisian seaport : GABES
22
British servicewoman: W.W. I : WAAC
24
John or Bo : DEREK
26
Intelligence man : BINET
27
"I may command where I ___": Shak. : ADORE
28
AMPLE PROSE about fruit : ROMEAPPLES
29
Painter of ballerinas : DEGAS
31
Deed holder : OWNER
32
Brings up : REARS
35
Ship's parking space : BERTH
38
Triangular sails : LATEENS
39
Wife of Aeneas : LAVINIA
41
Blockhead : DOLT
42
Indonesian island : TIMOR
44
Cartagena coin : PESETA
46
Passes on : RELAYS
48
Vertical : ERECT
50
Hoopla : TODO
51
Novelist Murdoch : IRIS
52
Battle memento : SCAR
54
Home of Vance AFB : ENID
55
Clytemnestra's mother : LEDA
56
Belgian river : YSER
59
Cot or corn starter : TRI

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

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