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Roger H. Courtney
Roger H. Courtney

New York Times, Saturday, August 20, 1988

30-Down : "___ Be," Beatles hit

Author:
Roger H. Courtney
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 263 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Roger H. Courtney has 10 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,165
Across
1
Prefix with dextrous : AMBI
5
Powerful person : NABOB
10
Donkey's cry : BRAY
14
Grazing lands : LEAS
15
Writer Calvino : ITALO
16
Actor Auberjonois : RENE
17
Like some mushrooms : VERSICOLOR
19
Handle for Hadrian : ANSA
20
Makes harmonious : ATTUNES
21
Come in again : REENTER
23
Rhone feeder : AIN
24
Calculating snakes? : ADDERS
25
Yellow mushrooms : CHANTERELLES
31
Spy in the sky, for short : AWACS
32
Liquid part of fat : OLEIN
33
Erode : EAT
36
Whittle : PARE
37
Watery fences? : MOATS
38
Swinburne, e.g. : ISLE
39
One kind of crust : PIE
40
Rib: Comb. form : COSTI
41
Growing out : ENATE
42
Fungi growing on decaying logs : EARTHTONGUES
44
Foo yong, e.g. : OMELET
47
Christie's "___ M" : NOR
48
Kind of swallowtail : PARSNIP
50
Flings again : RECASTS
54
Way out : EXIT
55
Mushroom lovers : MYCOPHILES
57
Carty of baseball : RICO
58
Scrape : ERASE
59
Tweed twitter : NAST
60
To ___ : AMAN
61
Pave again : RETAR
62
Cpls.' bosses : SGTS
Down
1
Part of T.A.E. : ALVA
2
A homophone for mete : MEET
3
A Starr : BART
4
P.O. action : ISSUANCE
5
A creed : NICENE
6
Philippine political divisions : ATOS
7
Dance in Le Havre : BAL
8
Genus of swans : OLOR
9
Aurora ___ : BOREALIS
10
Commercial names : BRANDS
11
French income : RENTE
12
Genus of geese : ANSER
13
Thurber's "The ___ With Ross" : YEARS
18
R.L.S. and J.F.K., e.g. : INITS
22
London hero : EDEN
25
Fearless Fosdick's creator : CAPP
26
Yellow River feeder : HWAI
27
Swiss waterway : AARE
28
Fowl pole : ROOST
29
Gulf of Aqaba port : ELATH
30
"___ Be," Beatles hit : LETIT
33
Jacob's twin : ESAU
34
Der ___ (Adenauer) : ALTE
35
Peete's pegs : TEES
37
One of Bergen's dummies : MORTIMER
38
Fixes deeply and firmly : INGRAINS
40
City in Normandy : CAEN
41
"___ Arden," Tennyson poem : ENOCH
42
___ Howard of baseball : ELSTON
43
"___ customer" : ONEPER
44
"Euridice" was the first complete one : OPERA
45
Apothegm : MAXIM
46
Writer Jong : ERICA
49
Funeral pile : PYRE
50
Artist Bonheur : ROSA
51
Scoriaceous lava : SLAG
52
Screen ___ : TEST
53
Fast jets : SSTS
56
Garfield, e.g. : CAT

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

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