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John Greenman
John Greenman

New York Times, Saturday, October 3, 1987

Author:
John Greenman
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J K }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 10, XRef: 1, Spans: 6, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 118.1
John Greenman has 52 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 12 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,843
Across
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Bean curd : TOFU
5
Molt : SHED
9
Tapered tuck : DART
13
Kind of corner : AMEN
14
Jinxes : HEXES
16
"Waiting for the Robert ___" : ELEE
17
Parisian's bench : BANC
18
Ancient strongboxes : ARCAE
19
Not non compos mentis : SANE
20
Quota-shy output : UNDERPRODUCTION
23
Get regretful : RUE
24
Plaque target : MOLAR
25
Attention-attracting word : AHEM
27
K–O connection : LMN
28
Mountain cats : PUMAS
32
Saroyan boy : ARAM
33
Without a ___ (penniless) : SOU
34
Bucolic Greek region, in poesy : ARCADY
35
Confusion : DISORGANIZATION
38
Aphrodite's love : ADONIS
39
Rite response : IDO
40
As to : INRE
41
Choreographer Ruth St. ___ : DENIS
42
Top of a suit : ACE
43
Level : EVEN
44
"Hope of Heaven" novelist : OHARA
46
Loch ___, Scotland : AWE
47
Quidnunc's trait : INQUISITIVENESS
54
Highest intellect : NOUS
55
Digression : ASIDE
56
He was, to Horace : ERAT
57
Spiral : COIL
58
Hardy, in the Highlands : STOUR
59
Term of respect : SIRE
60
Ferber's Cap'n ___ : ANDY
61
Jillian and Reinking : ANNS
62
Clothes closer : SNAP
Down
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End of a Freud title : TABU
2
Japanese comic strip : OMAN
3
___ off (repel) : FEND
4
With abruptness : UNCEREMONIOUSLY
5
Configuration : SHAPE
6
Münster mister : HERR
7
Ostracism of a sort : EXCOMMUNICATION
8
___ one's feet (exhausted) : DEADON
9
Vandal's trait : DESTRUCTIVENESS
10
Russian range : ALAI
11
The Rhine, to Rocco : RENO
12
Coed, often : TEEN
15
Lac ___, Ont. : SEUL
21
Hot-toddy ingredient : RUM
22
"It's a Wonderful Life" film maker : CAPRA
25
Take for ___ (deceive) : ARIDE
26
Is wearing : HASON
27
Chilean river : LOA
29
Down East : MAINE
30
Festoon : ADORN
31
Since then, in Ayr : SYNE
32
Coarse fiber : ADAD
33
Hospital V.I.P.'s : SGS
34
Kind of dye : AZO
36
Hindu sage : RISHI
37
Orfe : IDE
42
Awn : ARISTA
43
Farm animal : EWE
45
Botanist Gray et al. : ASAS
46
States : AVERS
47
Peruvian of yore : INCA
48
Koestler's "Darkness at ___" : NOON
49
Tobacco chew : QUID
50
Norse goddess : IDUN
51
A Walton : ERIN
52
A Roosevelt : SARA
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Perron part : STEP

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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