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Walter Covell
Walter Covell

New York Times, Friday, September 28, 1984

64-Down : Letters for sages?

Author:
Walter Covell
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Walter Covell has 33 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,743
Across
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Undergrad pad : DORM
5
Composer Joe Green : VERDI
10
Samoan city : APIA
14
Eye part : UVEA
15
Hera's admirer : IXION
16
Illiterate signing : XING
17
Degree for a would-be Einstein : MASTEROFSCIENCE
20
Change : ALTER
21
"Rivers to the Sea" poet : TEASDALE
22
An incarnation of Vishnu : RAMA
25
Basic biol. chain : RNA
26
Son of Odin : TYR
29
Eri's creation : SILK
31
Microscopic animal : AMEBA
36
Colorful horse : ROAN
38
Fibber : LIAR
40
Mr. Garth in "Middlemarch" : CALEB
41
S. B. Clough's forte : EUROPEANHISTORY
44
Pool occupant : STENO
45
Calaboose : STIR
46
Lawick-Goodall's friends : APES
47
Pure : SHEER
48
Insignificant one : SNIP
50
French connections : ETS
51
La leader : TRA
54
Innkeeper, in Italy : OSTE
56
Heraldic crosses : SALTIERS
61
Kind of grease : ELBOW
65
De Bakey's forte : THORACICSURGERY
68
Doctorow's "Loon ___" : LAKE
69
Common : USUAL
70
An evergreen : ATLE
71
News note : OBIT
72
Transfer a plant : REPOT
73
TV's Nicholas Nickleby : REES
Down
1
Doomed Russian council : DUMA
2
Diamond category : OVAL
3
Pianist's pause : REST
4
Pia follower : MATER
5
Mate for mulier : VIR
6
Outside: Prefix : EXO
7
Fissure : RIFT
8
Doctor, at times : DOSER
9
Quechua : INCAN
10
Canned : AXED
11
Pedro's anana : PINA
12
Extensive: Abbr. : INCL
13
Noted writer: 1909-55 : AGEE
18
Christian et al. : ERAS
19
Famed rabbi-journalist: 1804-78 : ISAACS
23
Miss's equivalent : MILE
24
Jimmy Valentine, e.g. : ALIAS
26
Lock : TRESS
27
Conrad tale : YOUTH
28
Peep show : RAREE
30
Philosopher's family : KANTS
32
Hari : MATA
33
Marry in haste : ELOPE
34
Chapeau for Corot : BERET
35
Primeval chaos : ABYSS
37
Remnant of "Ten Little Indians" : NONE
39
Nosy beast : RHINO
42
Antonio's barrister : PORTIA
43
Girl with a pupil? : IRIS
49
Winged: Comb. form : PTER
52
Happen again : RECUR
53
Originate : ARISE
55
"Falstaff" composer: 1913 : ELGAR
56
Normandy town : STLO
57
Jezebel's spouse : AHAB
58
Norse god : LOKI
59
Waste allowance : TRET
60
Food fish : SCUP
62
___ noire : BETE
63
Wreath atop Bors : ORLE
64
Letters for sages? : WYES
66
___ Paulo : SAO
67
In last mo. : ULT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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