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Nancy Schuster
Nancy Schuster

New York Times, Wednesday, March 12, 1969

44-Across : Ship's wheel.

Author:
Nancy Schuster
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { K Q W }, Scrabble score: 314 (avg 1.66)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
Nancy Schuster has 10 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1969, The New York TimesNo. 7,151
Across
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Sergeant ___. : ATARMS
7
Spurt. : JET
10
Certain resources. : ORES
14
Sideboard item. : TUREEN
15
Middle East initials. : UAR
16
Slangy reply. : NOPE
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Captain ___. : OFINDUSTRY
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Theater sign. : EXIT
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Brewer's need. : MALT
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Butane, for one. : FUEL
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College course, for short. : PSYCH
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Noncoms. : PFCS
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Chateau ___. : DIF
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Provisioner. : CATERER
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Comeback. : RIPOSTE
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Began. : OPENED
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Lieutenant ___. : GOVERNOR
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One of seagoing trio. : PINTA
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Grain. : OAT
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Contempt. : SCORN
38
General ___. : ASSEMBLY
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"Tristram Shandy" author. : STERNE
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Dessert. : SHERBET
42
Pauses of a sort. : SIESTAS
43
Layer. : PLY
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Ship's wheel. : HELM
45
Worship. : ADORE
48
Arrive. : COME
49
Instrument. : OBOE
53
Pretty: Fr. : JOLI
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Corporal ___. : PUNISHMENT
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Iowa city. : AMES
57
Tribe in Nigeria. : IBO
58
Convert into particles. : IONIZE
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Color. : ROSE
60
Surfacing. : TAR
61
Tolerates. : ABIDES
Down
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Mighty mite. : ATOM
2
Porous rock. : TUFA
3
Seed covering. : ARIL
4
Budget item. : RENT
5
Pre-___. : MED
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Extinguished. : SNUFFED
7
Early invaders of Britain. : JUTES
8
Peer. : EARL
9
Beset. : TRY
10
Marshal ___. : ONESFORCES
11
Old movie palace. : ROXY
12
Large-scale. : EPIC
13
Son of Adam. : SETH
18
Sugar: Prefix. : SUCR
22
Trouser style. : PIPESTEM
23
"We, the people ... " : PREAMBLE
24
Math chore: Abbr. : DIV
25
Panama gum trees. : COPAS
26
Following blindly. : APISH
27
Future, for one. : TENSE
28
Private ___. : ENTERPRISE
29
Bosh. : ROT
30
Horsey sound. : SNORT
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Return: Ital. : TORNA
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Sea birds. : ERNES
34
Spritely. : GAY
36
Danube tributary. : OLT
39
Turkish title. : BEY
40
Soft cotton twill. : SILESIA
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Partly: Prefix. : SEMI
44
___ guard. : HONOR
45
Open. : AJAR
46
Major ___. : DOMO
47
Bravos. : OLES
48
Destination of some planes. : CUBA
49
All: Prefix. : OMNI
50
Star in Eridanus. : BEID
51
French numeral. : ONZE
52
French summers. : ETES
54
Stone. : PIT
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Quoits peg. : HOB

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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