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Larry Goldhirsch
Larry Goldhirsch

New York Times, Saturday, September 1, 1984

37-Down : Demeans

Author:
Larry Goldhirsch
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { K V X Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 57, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 12, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Larry Goldhirsch has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,716
Across
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___ Simbel, Egypt : ABU
4
Bluish green : TEAL
8
Eponym's contribution : NAME
12
Oodles : GOBS
14
Abstain from : FORGO
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One-eyed god : ODIN
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Verb that reverses time : EMIT
17
Almighty : OMNIPOTENT
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Welch : RAQUEL
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Famed Mormon family : OSMONDS
22
Immature : UNRIPE
25
Type of jet engine : ION
26
Schoolroom missile : SPITBALL
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Mercer song: 1944 : DREAM
31
"___ Off to Larry," 1961 Del Shannon hit : HATS
32
Come to terms : AGREE
34
Tears, to Tennyson : DEW
36
Yoko ___ : ONO
37
Opera's Varnay et al. : ASTRIDS
39
Textile screw pine : ARA
40
___-de-vie : EAU
41
Morsels : BITES
42
Pianist Gilels : EMIL
43
Swedish port : YSTAD
45
Any Jesuit, e.g. : CELIBATE
48
Full of: Suffix : OSE
49
Early Christian theologian : ORIGEN
50
Cannonballs : BARRELS
54
Noted English inventor: 1847-1908 : AYRTON
57
The antis : OPPOSITION
60
Sport, to a guru : LILA
61
Flanges : RIMS
62
"The ___," Lustbader novel : NINJA
63
They may be split or tight : ENDS
64
Faulkner man : ANSE
65
"Cogito, ___ sum" : ERGO
66
Erhard prog. : EST
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Radio-tube stabilizer : AGER
2
Safari blind : BOMA
3
Like Kilroy, once : UBIQUITOUS
4
Male clowder member : TOM
5
Raptor at sea : ERN
6
World Bank word : AGIO
7
Askew : LOPSIDED
8
" ... ditties of ___": Keats : NOTONE
9
Yemeni port : ADEN
10
Obey : MIND
11
Tolkien creatures : ENTS
13
Feats : STUNTS
14
Thin layers of rocks : FOLIA
18
"O tempora! ___!" : OMORES
20
Composer Donald ___ : ERB
23
___ National Park, Okla. : PLATT
24
Great pupil of Titian : ELGRECO
26
Old woman's abode : SHOE
27
Site of Iloilo : PANAY
29
Hard : ADAMANTINE
30
___ badge : MERIT
33
Perron part : RISER
35
Ridge : WALE
37
Demeans : ABASES
38
Put out of action : SIDELINE
42
Glenn Miller vocalist : EBERLE
44
Knobbed : TOROSE
46
Tropical vine : LIANA
47
Per. from July 1, 1957 to Dec. 31, 1958 : IGY
50
Dry, cold wind : BORA
51
Neat as ___ : APIN
52
Tachometer rdgs. : RPMS
53
The big house : STIR
55
Auto pioneer : OLDS
56
Political cartoonist : NAST
58
Participial ending : ING
59
Juan's eye : OJO

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

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