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Richard N. Platt, Jr.
Richard N. Platt, Jr.

New York Times, Monday, August 4, 1980

26-Down : Cut back

Author:
Richard N. Platt, Jr.
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.64, Missing: { F G J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 252 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 61, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, Spans: 3
Richard N. Platt, Jr. has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,227
Across
1
Word with castle or bar : SAND
5
Cleo's bosom companion : ASP
8
Prognosticator : SEER
12
"___ face!" : ABOUT
14
"___ Stoops to Conquer" : SHE
15
Freshet : SPATE
16
Where the march to Montgomery started : SELMA
17
Prepare a hide : TAN
18
Ziti, e.g. : PASTA
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E.M.K. is one : SEN
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Narrow opening : SLIT
24
Emulate Bugs Bunny : HOP
27
Baste : SEW
29
This often spreads like wildfire : RUMOR
33
To be, to Guillaume : ETRE
35
Movie maker J. Arthur : RANK
38
Tennis star from Australia : LAVER
40
Obstinate : STUBBORNASAMULE
43
Mister, in Quito : SENOR
44
He once led the Cosmos : PELE
45
Touched down : ALIT
46
Author of "La Vie de Jésus" : RENAN
48
Word with run or play : END
50
Summer, in Martinique : ETE
51
Dear's partner : NEAR
54
Baby brother's baby sitter : SIS
56
Full of self-esteem : PROUDASAPEACOCK
64
Actor Greene : LORNE
65
Revolutionary org. : PLO
66
Car that won't go far : LEMON
67
Up and about : ASTIR
68
B.P.O.E. member : ELK
69
Gin : SNARE
70
Vireo's home : NEST
71
Isolationist in the Senate: 1925-45 : NYE
72
Word with shoe or family : TREE
Down
1
Talk back : SASS
2
Victim of a tiller : ABEL
3
___ me tangere : NOLI
4
Sometime landfills : DUMPS
5
Sci. for Kepler : ASTR
6
___ Rebellion: 1786-87 : SHAYS
7
Kind of colony : PENAL
8
Form an arch over : SPAN
9
Alleviate : EASE
10
Suffix for lay or kitchen : ETTE
11
"Camino ___" : REAL
13
Nixon's undoing : TAPES
15
Kitchen utensil : SPATULA
20
Winter month in Catalonia : ENERO
21
"To ___ with Love" : SIR
24
Notorious Nazi parachutist : HESS
25
Aquatic mammal : OTTER
26
Cut back : PRUNE
28
Woof's companion : WARP
30
Baby's first word, perhaps : MAMA
31
Small egg : OVULE
32
Used tinder again : RELIT
34
Black : EBON
36
Sailing dir. : NNE
37
Cabbage's cousin : KALE
39
Neural network : RETE
41
Cattleman's employee : BRANDER
42
Sometimes it's common : SENSE
47
A.F.T. rival : NEA
49
Rings a number : DIALS
52
Squaw Valley competitor : ASPEN
53
Recover : RALLY
55
Fragrance : SCENT
56
Diagram : PLAN
57
Maid in "Upstairs, Downstairs" : ROSE
58
Table scraps : ORTS
59
___ rule, at a convention : UNIT
60
Jab : POKE
61
General Bradley : OMAR
62
Essence : CORE
63
Meeting place for the femur, tibia and patella : KNEE

Answer summary:
2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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