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Hugh McElroy
Hugh McElroy

New York Times, Tuesday, September 15, 1981

11-Down : Offering to a mendicant

Author:
Hugh McElroy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 12, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Hugh McElroy has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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M
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V
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O
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R
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M
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,634
Across
1
Gen. Arnold : HAP
4
Nap : PILE
8
"Blood Wedding" dramatist : LORCA
13
Ailing girl in opera : MIMI
14
State as fact : AVER
15
French soup favorite : ONION
16
Eager : AGOG
17
Boxing's square : RING
18
Math word : RATIO
19
"___ the Wind," film classic of '61 : WHISTLEDOWN
22
Landers or Miller : ANN
23
Grant or Peggy : WOOD
24
Uncooked : RAW
26
Companion of yon : HITHER
29
Uninvited ones : CRASHERS
34
Component in perfume or medicine : ORRIS
35
Fox or turkey follower : TROT
36
"___ a Song Go ... " : ILET
37
Clarke and West : MAES
38
Edwin or J. Wilkes : BOOTH
39
Location : SITE
40
Coup d'___ : ETAT
41
Lhasa ___ (dog breed) : APSO
42
Bodega or boutique : STORE
43
Marks off as a poor risk : REDLINES
45
___ Sea (saline lake of Calif.) : SALTON
46
Suffix with persist : ENT
47
Certain weed : TARE
48
Partner of fi : SCI
51
Bacall-to-Bogart phrase : JUSTWHISTLE
57
Ionian isle : CORFU
59
Locality : AREA
60
Little ___, fictional tugboat : TOOT
61
Couty in Ky. : ADAIR
62
Salacious expression : LEER
63
Monster : OGRE
64
Like many curs : MANGY
65
"¿Cómo ___ Vd.?" : ESTA
66
Home for two peas : POD
Down
1
"___ Sierra," Bogart film : HIGH
2
Belonging to me: Fr. : AMOI
3
Part of a slangy retort : PIGSWHISTLE
4
Living room : PARLOR
5
Like campus halls : IVIED
6
Word before lease : LEND
7
Therefore : ERGO
8
Doone and Luft : LORNAS
9
"Two ___ raft" (poached eggs with toast) : ONA
10
"Rio" girl : RITA
11
Offering to a mendicant : COIN
12
Poet's soon : ANON
13
Paw's mate : MAW
20
"On Your ___," Rodgers-Hart 1936 musical : TOES
21
Anger : WRATH
25
One-horse town : WHISTLESTOP
26
"Northeaster" painter : HOMER
27
Heated : IRATE
28
Tire feature : TREAD
29
Kind of cut or beam : CROSS
30
Newspaper pic style : ROTO
31
Thomas Stearns ___ : ELIOT
32
Prefix with grade or rocket : RETRO
33
Dutch painter or British novelist : STEEN
35
Constantly fail to pass the bar : TOPE
38
African language : BANTU
42
Garment of India : SARI
44
Harm : INJURY
45
Tuaregs' region : SAHARA
47
Canary's statement : TWEET
48
Con man's scheme : SCAM
49
Musical ending : CODA
50
Bani-Sadr's homeland : IRAN
52
Shopper stopper : SALE
53
"___ bien!" (Pierre's approval) : TRES
54
Takeout phrase at a diner : TOGO
55
Killanin's title : LORD
56
Parisan season : ETE
58
Garden of Eden fruit : FIG

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

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