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McCain
McCain

New York Times, Monday, September 27, 1976

8-Down : Shades

Author:
McCain
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
McCain has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,907
Across
1
Ship area : ALOW
5
Oriental nurses : AMAHS
10
Footwear : BOOT
14
Livestock feed : MASH
15
Get blurred, as a windshield : FOGUP
16
Dash : ELAN
17
Spanish jar : OLLA
18
From stem to stern : FOREANDAFT
20
Cheer on : ROOTFOR
22
Sneers : SCOFFS
23
Furnace tender : FIRER
25
Self : EGO
26
Hi-fi disk : RECORD
29
Gangland disciplinarian : ENFORCER
34
Firehouse fixture : ALARM
35
Thought: Prefix : IDEO
36
Peace symbol : DOVE
37
Business assn. : NAM
38
Sculpture, e.g. : ARTFORM
41
Pickpocket : DIP
42
Agenda subject : ITEM
44
Short jacket : ETON
45
"No trouble ___" : ATALL
47
Set a goal : SHOOTFOR
49
Kind of photo print : GLOSSY
50
___ Grande : RIO
51
Cathedral, in Pisa : DUOMO
53
Fire Island, e.g. : RESORT
56
Anticipate : LOOKFOR
60
Soothsayer's art : FORESEEING
62
Bona ___ : FIDE
63
Ludwig : EMIL
64
Do second-story work : STEAL
65
Place for an Alaska : OVEN
66
Hideaways : DENS
67
___ Haute : TERRE
68
Kind of cure : REST
Down
1
Cupid : AMOR
2
Composer Edouard : LALO
3
Northern capital : OSLO
4
Questioning words : WHATFOR
5
"I can't ___ it" : AFFORD
6
Grace or Marianne : MOORE
7
Farming: Abbr. : AGR
8
Shades : HUES
9
Provide ___ (house a traveler) : SPACEFOR
10
It's New, in Mass. : BEDFORD
11
V.I.P. in 3 Down : OLAF
12
Dolts : OAFS
13
Explosive : TNT
19
"Not a chance!" : NOGO
21
Terra ___ : FIRMA
24
Robert of films : REDFORD
26
Indian queens : RANIS
27
Israeli port : ELATH
28
Relief carving : CAMEO
30
Colorful gas : NEON
31
Musical closings : CODAS
32
Wicked doings : EVILS
33
Respond : REPLY
35
"Don't tell ___ anyone" : ITTO
39
Do an ecological job : REFOREST
40
Port opposite Copenhagen : MALMO
43
Mouthfuls : MORSELS
46
___ granted : TOOKFOR
48
Spanish uncles : TIOS
49
Barney of comics : GOOGLE
52
Of an arm bone : ULNAR
53
Erie Canal city : ROME
54
___ go bragh : ERIN
55
Head, in Rheims : TETE
57
Quitting time for most : FIVE
58
Lyric works : ODES
59
Torn : RENT
60
G-man : FED
61
Suffix for cash : IER

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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