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Rae
Rae

New York Times, Wednesday, February 27, 1980

Author:
Rae
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { B J Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 56.8 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Rae has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,068
Across
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Actor-playwright Guitry : SACHA
6
Forerunner of waste : HASTE
11
Quick to learn : APT
14
Relaxes : IDLES
15
Misbehave : ACTUP
16
Landing spot for Glenn : SEA
17
Adjective for some stars : GIANT
18
Polaris : NORTHSTAR
20
Vocal hesitation : HEM
21
Tidal flood : EAGRE
23
Title Drake held : SIR
24
Celestial; heavenly : SUPERLUNAR
27
"High" time : NOON
30
TV spoof : SOAP
31
Prefix with begotten : MIS
33
Cpl. or sgt. : NCO
34
Single aircraft mission : SORTIE
37
Rise and float in air : LEVITATE
39
Trapped aloft : TREED
40
Cable ___ : CAR
41
Cornmeal or oatmeal : GRUEL
42
Person at the controls : OPERATOR
44
Shallow African salt lakes : CHOTTS
45
What Wafs are not : MEN
46
Moon buggy : LEM
47
Dog-show pariah : MUTT
48
Thespians' org. : ANTA
50
Modern transportation : SPACESHIPS
55
House extension : ELL
57
Official decree : UKASE
58
Sound around a gridiron : RAH
59
Carried supplies by plane : AIRLIFTED
62
Foil von Richthofen : EVADE
64
Top fighter pilot : ACE
65
Author ___ Rogers St. Johns : ADELA
66
Prefix with rocket : RETRO
67
The ___ Baron : RED
68
Palindromic title : MADAM
69
Material for a launching pad : STEEL
Down
1
Bridge of ___, Venice : SIGHS
2
Goodbye, in Grenoble : ADIEU
3
Holding device : CLAMP
4
More frier than flier : HEN
5
Of small planets like Ceres : ASTEROIDAL
6
Mental or emotional quirk : HANGUP
7
It fell on Chicken Little : ACORN
8
Defective parachute : STREAMER
9
Famous mummy : TUT
10
Williams athletes : EPHS
11
Modern explorer : ASTRONAUT
12
Play-gun ammo : PEA
13
Cousin of a gob : TAR
19
Original ___ : SIN
22
Wings : ALAE
25
Organic compound : ESTER
26
Broadway's "6 Rms ___ Vu" : RIV
28
Double quartet : OCTET
29
Carols : NOELS
32
Tourists : SIGHTSEERS
34
Small plant orifice : STOMA
35
Irish painter: 1878–1931 : ORPEN
36
Returned to Earth's atmosphere : REENTERED
37
Roman household deity : LAR
38
Something to pledge : TROTH
40
Did some sums : COMPUTED
43
Thy, in Paris : TES
44
Help from prompters : CUES
47
Famed name in road building : MCADAM
49
Part of A-O.K. : ALL
51
Leader of a Cub Scout pack : AKELA
52
Very angry : IRATE
53
Sky pilot : PADRE
54
O.T. nether world : SHEOL
56
Writer O'Flaherty : LIAM
59
Longest Swiss river : AAR
60
Winter wing hazard : ICE
61
Agcy. controlling narcotics : FDA
63
War pilot today : VET

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

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