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Fred Toole
Fred Toole

New York Times, Monday, April 2, 1984

Author:
Fred Toole
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 46, Avg Word Len: 4.84, Missing: { G J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 253 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 53, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 26.9
Fred Toole has 28 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,564
Across
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Drs.' group : AMA
4
Offer : BID
7
Mournful melody : TAPS
11
Virile fellow : HEMAN
13
Fill : SATE
14
Landed : ALIT
15
Largest antelope : ELAND
16
Dickens villain : HEEP
17
Golfers' gadgets : TEES
18
Form of brainpower : MINDOVERMATTER
21
Got on : FARED
22
Marsupial, Down Under : ROO
23
___ Dame : NOTRE
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"To be, or ___" : NOTTOBE
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Where Pusan is : KOREA
29
Sioux shelter : TEPEE
30
Literary monogram : RLS
32
Lupino and Tarbell : IDAS
33
Praised extravagantly : RAVED
34
Defeat decisively : ROUT
35
___ Aviv : TEL
36
Apportions : METES
37
Nit-picking : PETTY
38
Surprise success : SLEEPER
40
Use mineral springs : BATHE
41
Jefferson Davis's org. : CSA
42
Bizarre : OUTRE
43
" ... they shall beat their swords ___" : INTOPLOWSHARES
49
Source of a bitter drug : ALOE
50
Ireland, to Gaels : EIRE
51
Character in "The Rivals" : ACRES
52
Ponce de ___ : LEON
53
Dau., bro. et al. : RELS
54
Approaches : NEARS
55
Saxon serf : ESNE
56
Upward curve in timber : SNY
57
Pesticide : DDT
Down
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"___ Seasons" : AMANFORALL
2
Ukases : MANDATES
3
Pyrenees principality : ANDORRA
4
Boxer Max : BAER
5
Particular : ITEM
6
Went : DEPARTED
7
Skin design : TATTOO
8
Sheltered at sea : ALEE
9
Pilaster : PIER
10
City ways: Abbr. : STS
11
Skirt part : HEM
12
Yale man : ELI
13
Molt : SHED
19
Boat-hull shape, often : VEE
20
Kind of bag : TOTE
23
Protuberances : NODES
24
"And ___ the twain shall meet" : NEVER
25
Uncloses, poetically : OPES
26
Farce about V.M.I.: 1936 : BROTHERRAT
27
Wash out : ELUTE
28
Travel pack : KIT
29
London gallery : TATE
31
Piggery : STY
33
Covers walls again : REPAPERS
34
Went back over one's path : RETRACED
36
Middle: Prefix : MESO
37
Poker player's delight : PATHAND
39
Greek Orthodox Church litany : ECTENE
40
School vehicle : BUS
42
Has markers out : OWES
43
French islands : ILES
44
"High" time for Cooper : NOON
45
Mortgage : LIEN
46
Airfield near Paris : ORLY
47
Poetic "ever" : EER
48
Draft agcy. : SSS
49
Brown October brew : ALE

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

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