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Mimi Moody
Mimi Moody

New York Times, Wednesday, August 2, 1989

26-Down : Recorded

Author:
Mimi Moody
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Mimi Moody has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,512
Across
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Preparers of 1040 data : CPAS
5
Deep sleeps : COMAS
10
Pornography : SMUT
14
Colo.'s Gary : HART
15
Nautical direction : APORT
16
Overseas package for the needy : CARE
17
Pitcher : EWER
18
Flora and fauna : BIOTA
19
Fad : RAGE
20
Old-fashioned threshing method : FLAILING
22
Course requirement for future M.D.'s : PREMED
24
Corn bread : PONE
25
Aweather's opposite : ALEE
26
Small struggle : TUSSLE
29
Take to the ___ (rip off) : CLEANERS
33
Alias, for short : AKA
34
Bikini is one : ATOLL
36
Station : DEPOT
37
Lose strength : PALL
39
Make tracks : SCOOT
41
Prescription amount : DOSE
42
Chemical compound : ESTER
44
Surcoat : TUNIC
46
Wd. on a French letterhead : CIE
47
Fated : DESTINED
49
Midnight raider : NOSHER
51
Waste allowance : TRET
52
Traffic sign : STOP
53
Heaps of rocky debris : SCREES
56
"___ Goes," 1934 musical : ANYTHING
60
Indigent : POOR
61
Scout group : TROOP
63
Heaven on earth : EDEN
64
The tops : ACME
65
Memorable portrayer of villains : LORRE
66
French receipt : RECU
67
Tree denizen : TOAD
68
Endings with major and din : ETTES
69
Comics exclamations : EEKS
Down
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Beard or Child : CHEF
2
Ratchet part : PAWL
3
One kind of code : AREA
4
Denudes : STRIPS
5
Presidential advisers : CABINETS
6
Sound off : OPINE
7
Electronic synthesizer : MOOG
8
Op or Pop : ART
9
Bread or rice : STAPLE
10
Filtered : SCREENED
11
Thank-you-___ (bump in a road) : MAAM
12
Egg on : URGE
13
___ off (irate) : TEED
21
She gets what she wants : LOLA
23
Peruse : READ
25
"___ a summer's day" : ALLON
26
Recorded : TAPED
27
Russian edict : UKASE
28
Seasons : SALTS
29
Cirrus or cumulus : CLOUD
30
Time period : EPOCH
31
W.W. II riveter : ROSIE
32
Navigate : STEER
35
Double quartet : OCTET
38
Well educated : LETTERED
40
Old-fashioned snapshots : TINTYPES
43
To laugh, in Paris : RIRE
45
Old bird? : COOT
48
Snuggle up : NESTLE
50
Area of influence : SPHERE
52
Night sound : SNORE
53
Minor disagreement : SPAT
54
Hepburn role on Broadway : COCO
55
Italia's capital : ROMA
56
Corporeal channel: Comb. form : AORT
57
Brainstorm, in Paris : IDEE
58
Smooch : NECK
59
African antelopes : GNUS
62
Decay : ROT

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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