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Charles Engler
Charles Engler

New York Times, Tuesday, August 8, 1978

Author:
Charles Engler
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { B F J Q U Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 2, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 32.2
Charles Engler has 13 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,587
Across
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Amish, e.g. : SECT
5
Razorlike : SHARP
10
Pip-pip : TATA
14
Declare : AVER
15
Hairy : PILAR
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CENTO member : IRAN
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Arizona "monster" : GILA
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"___ a Parade" : ILOVE
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Belted : GIRT
20
Start of a Will Rogers line : ALLIKNOWISWHATI
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Crusted dessert : PIE
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N.Y.C. subway : IRT
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Pets : COSSETS
29
Menlo Park family : EDISONS
33
Russian cooperative : ARTEL
34
Creed : TENET
36
"Blue Knight" : COP
37
U.S. radio station in Berlin : RIAS
38
Budged : MOVED
39
Harness part : HAME
40
Downing Street number : TEN
41
Fast-food stop : DINER
42
The "man without a country" : NOLAN
43
On in age : ELDERLY
45
Scented : ODORANT
47
___ Sparks, memorable sourpuss : NED
48
Sea eagle : ERN
49
End of the Rogers line : READINTHEPAPERS
58
Injure : HARM
59
Zola : EMILE
60
Corn lily : IXIA
61
Relative of a ceorl : ESNE
62
Finch : SERIN
63
Mechanics' stations in an auto race : PITS
64
Epochs upon epochs : AEON
65
Golfer Sam : SNEAD
66
Peary's winter base : ETAH
Down
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"Heimskringla," e.g. : SAGA
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Depraved : EVIL
3
Sing Sing lodging : CELL
4
Walks idly : TRAIPSES
5
Upright piano : SPINET
6
Hawaiian port : HILO
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Down in the hold : ALOW
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Sitar star Shankar : RAVI
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Chaired : PRESIDED
10
Acrobat's apparel : TIGHTS
11
___ da capo (musical form) : ARIA
12
Fruity pastry : TART
13
Not for : ANTI
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German canal : KIEL
22
Court order : WRIT
25
A la ___ : CARTE
26
Bay window : ORIEL
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Bear : STAND
28
Unfeeling : STONY
29
January, in Jaén : ENERO
30
Florida city : OCALA
31
"___ is an island": Donne : NOMAN
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Used up : SPENT
35
Holiday time : EVE
38
Bland quality : MILDNESS
39
Lively folk dance : HORNPIPE
41
Three, in Mainz : DREI
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Mrs. Nick Charles : NORA
44
Interlocutors' foils : ENDMEN
46
Be contingent : DEPEND
49
Large bird : RHEA
50
Naturalness : EASE
51
Cartoonist Peter: 1904–68 : ARNO
52
U.S. Treasury sleuths : TMEN
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"This Gun for ___" : HIRE
54
Lamb : ELIA
55
Sign in a theater : EXIT
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Actress Moreno : RITA
57
Waist cincher : SASH

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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