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Ruth Lake Tepper
Ruth Lake Tepper

New York Times, Thursday, February 23, 1978

14-Across : Swearword

Author:
Ruth Lake Tepper
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { F J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 61, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Ruth Lake Tepper has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,421
Across
1
Fiddlesticks! : POOH
5
Kind of hammer : CLAW
9
Hebrew dry measure : EPHA
13
Ascent : UPGO
14
Swearword : OATH
15
Parisian trunk : TRONC
17
Villain's look : LEER
18
Phrase with work or eat : LIKEAHORSE
20
"Rumanian Rhapsodies" composer : ENESCO
22
Prefix for hero or knock : ANTI
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But, to Brutus : SED
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Millennia : EON
25
Stick together : COHERE
27
Contemptibility : LOWNESS
31
Star of movie "Fiddler" : TOPOL
32
Apropos of : INRE
33
Derby : HORSERACE
37
Boswell or Burns : SCOT
38
Characteristic : TRAIT
39
Koran chapter : SURA
40
Apartment aerie : PENTHOUSE
42
River to the Elbe : EGER
43
Swedish hot punch : GLOGG
44
Stills : SHUSHES
47
" ... forsaking all ___" : OTHERS
49
Shade tree : ELM
50
Also : TOO
51
Custodian: Abbr. : SUPT
54
Microscopic animal : AMOEBA
58
Unit equivalent to 550 foot-pounds per second : HORSEPOWER
61
Single : UNAL
62
Beginning : ONSET
63
Swingy rhythm : LILT
64
Abecedarian : TYRO
65
Saarinen : EERO
66
Exclusively : ONLY
67
Claptrap, for short : HOKE
Down
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Whimper : PULE
2
Unobstructed : OPEN
3
S-shaped molding : OGEE
4
Prickly weed : HORSENETTLE
5
Punctuation marks : COLONS
6
Medieval French poem : LAI
7
One of the Aleutians : ATKA
8
Companion of where : WHEN
9
Haile Selassie, for one : ETHIOPE
10
Member of the P.G.A. : PRO
11
Guffaw : HORSELAUGH
12
Goose genus : ANSER
16
Give up : CEDE
19
Sell ___ (make no profit) : ATCOST
21
College in Iowa : COE
26
Supposedly reliable source of info : HORSESMOUTH
27
Speech defect : LISP
28
Formerly : ONCE
29
Back the ___ (err) : WRONGHORSE
30
Gesture of indifference : SHRUG
31
Puts to the proof : TRIES
34
Western Hemisphere org. : OAS
35
Algonquian Indian : CREE
36
Pitcher adjuncts : EARS
38
Dresses : TOGSUP
41
" ... bring a ___ the water ... " : HORSETO
45
Vigorous : HEARTY
46
City on the Danube : ULM
47
H.R.E. emperor : OTHO
48
Hundred-___ shot (long odds) : TOONE
52
Kind of shirt : POLO
53
Romulus, e.g. : TWIN
55
Mother of Ares : ENYO
56
Arf or woof : BARK
57
Lily plant : ALOE
59
To be, in Barcelona : SER
60
Annex : ELL

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 2 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.

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