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Manny Miller
Manny Miller

New York Times, Saturday, June 7, 1975

9-Across : Wood for rafts

Author:
Manny Miller
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Manny Miller has 32 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,429
Across
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One way to bargain : PLEA
5
Like a bump on ___ : ALOG
9
Wood for rafts : BALSA
14
Plenty : LOTS
15
Loud sound : ROAR
16
Root : ELIHU
17
Disappear : EVAPORATE
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Cover of a kind : CLOUD
20
Irrelevant : BESIDETHEPOINT
22
___ ha-Shanah : ROSH
23
Title : NAME
24
To some degree : INPART
27
___ beet : ASREDASA
31
Pawnbroker's deals : LOANS
32
Steals, shopwise : LIFTS
33
Fellow : LAD
34
"What's ___ for me?" : INIT
35
Egyptian king : MENES
36
Quantity gathered : HAUL
37
Singleton of baseball : KEN
38
Stage offering : REVUE
39
French philosopher : COMTE
40
Rudimentary sensation : ESTHESIS
42
Enola Gay, for one : BOMBER
43
Helper: Abbr. : ASST
44
Dotted : SEME
45
Security : MONEYINTHEBANK
51
Bearlike animal : PANDA
52
Janitor : CARETAKER
53
Tie : ASCOT
54
Poisonous tree : UPAS
55
Flowing garment : SARI
56
Small arms of Britain : STENS
57
Month: Abbr. : SEPT
58
Baseball's Slaughter : ENOS
Down
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Commonplace, for short : PLEB
2
Tennis score : LOVE
3
Greek letters : ETAS
4
Candidate : ASPIRANT
5
Check : ARREST
6
Reluctant : LOATH
7
___ of office : OATH
8
Golfer's outlay : GREENSFEE
9
Does justice to : BECOMES
10
Closely related : ALLIED
11
" ... in like a ___" : LION
12
Close : SHUT
13
Accountant: Abbr. : AUD
18
Perfumes : ODORS
21
Car-agency sign : PARTS
24
"___ New York in June" : ILIKE
25
Roman date : NONES
26
Do art work : PAINT
27
Aborigines of Japan : AINUS
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"And out like ___" : ALAMB
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Fry quickly : SAUTE
30
Cyrus or Felix : ADLER
32
Between Exodus and Numbers : LEVITICUS
35
Untidy : MESSY
36
Operations center : HOMEBASE
38
Moves, as a theater patron : RESEATS
39
Halley's find : COMET
41
Relay : HANDON
42
Command : BEHEST
44
Cause hardship : STRAP
45
Tall pole : MAST
46
___ in a while : ONCE
47
Neck part : NAPE
48
Language of Ghana : AKAN
49
Emperor : NERO
50
Malay dagger : KRIS
51
Dance step : PAS

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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