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William Lutwiniak
New York Times, Tuesday, November 16, 1976
3-Down : Count on
Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { none — this is a pangram }, Scrabble score: 326 (avg 1.74)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Grid has duplicate clues.
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 M | 2 E | 3 R | 4 E | 5 S | 6 P | 7 R | 8 I | 9 G | 10 S | 11 O | 12 N | 13 S |
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14 A | X | E | L | 15 C | H | I | N | O | 16 T | R | O | T |
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17 P | I | L | L | 18 A | R | O | F | S | O | 19 C | I | E | T | Y |
20 S | T | Y | 21 W | I | N | E | 22 D | O | L | L | A | R |
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23 B | A | B | Y | 24 J | E | T | ||||||||
25 S | 26 T | 27 R | I | K | E | 28 G | 29 O | O | D | E | 30 G | 31 G | 32 S |
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33 I | R | E | N | E | 34 D | E | L | E | 35 D | A | R | E |
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36 R | E | L | 37 B | O | N | D | S | 38 Z | I | P |
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39 E | V | I | 40 L | 41 O | X | U | S | 42 Q | 43 U | E | S | T |
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44 N | I | C | E | 45 G | U | Y | S | 46 B | U | R | S | T | S |
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47 C | O | N | 48 C | A | I | N | ||||||||
49 G | 50 R | 51 A | T | E | D | 52 S | I | L | L | 53 A | 54 L | 55 I |
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56 N | A | T | U | R | E | 57 S | N | O | B | L | 58 E | M | A | N |
59 A | J | A | R | 60 R | H | I | N | O | 61 D | O | Z | E |
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62 W | A | N | E | 63 S | E | T | S | A | 64 S | K | Y | S |
© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,957
Across
1
Standing water : MERE
5
Parsley unit : SPRIG
10
Offspring : SONS
14
Skating leap : AXEL
15
Durable cloth : CHINO
16
Horse's gait : TROT
17
Estimable person : PILLAROFSOCIETY
20
Eye problem : STY
21
California export : WINE
22
Buck : DOLLAR
23
Infant : BABY
24
Go by air : JET
25
___ it rich : STRIKE
28
Estimable people : GOODEGGS
33
Miss Dunne : IRENE
34
Take out : DELE
35
Have the nerve : DARE
36
Electrical unit : REL
37
Securities : BONDS
38
Fasten : ZIP
39
Malefic : EVIL
41
Old name of the Amu Darya : OXUS
42
Pursuit : QUEST
44
Estimable people : NICEGUYS
46
Spasms : BURSTS
47
Against : CON
48
Genesis man : CAIN
49
Was dissonant : GRATED
52
Door feature : SILL
53
Miss MacGraw : ALI
56
Estimable person : NATURESNOBLEMAN
59
Open : AJAR
60
Zoo denizen, for short : RHINO
61
Nap : DOZE
62
Decline : WANE
63
___ precedent : SETSA
64
"The ___ the limit!" : SKYS
Down
1
Plats : MAPS
2
Way out : EXIT
3
Count on : RELY
4
Letter : ELL
5
Early copier of mss. : SCRIBE
6
Ersatz : PHONY
7
Prevalent : RIFE
8
Office-holders : INS
9
Estimable people : GOODJOES
10
Pompous : STILTED
11
City on the Oka : OREL
12
___ bene : NOTA
13
Ukrainian river : STYR
18
Wide-eyed : AWAKE
19
Campus figure : COED
23
Container : BIN
25
Temptress : SIREN
26
Famed fountain : TREVI
27
Memento : RELIC
28
Set of species : GENUS
29
Automotive pioneer : OLDS
30
Fixes the eyes : GAZES
31
Mill's input : GRIST
32
Clans : SEPTS
34
Religious opinion : DOXY
37
Nonestimable ones : BOUNDERS
40
Professorial forte : LECTURE
42
Old pen : QUILL
43
Jardiniere : URN
45
Active one : GOER
46
He found the Pacific : BALBOA
48
Plant grafts: Var. : CIONS
49
Torment : GNAW
50
Delhi V.I.P. : RAJA
51
___ impasse : ATAN
52
Agitated state : SNIT
53
Uncontrolled : AMOK
54
Do-nothing : LAZY
55
Chemical endings : INES
57
Pronoun : SHE
58
Sullivan and McMahon : EDS
Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.