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Floy Stryker
Floy Stryker

New York Times, Friday, July 27, 1979

58-Across : Séance occurrence

Author:
Floy Stryker
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.49, Missing: { W X Z }, Scrabble score: 298 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 86, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Floy Stryker has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,853
Across
1
Planted trees : FORESTED
9
Maltreated : ABUSED
15
Enough : ADEQUATE
16
Green film on copper : PATINA
17
Succession : SEQUENCE
18
Passé service person : ICEMAN
19
Adjusted exactly : TRUED
20
Traveler's bag : PACKSACK
22
Verb suffix, in England : ISE
23
Summary : RECAP
24
Football linemen: Abbr. : RTS
25
One of the D.A.'s people : ASST
27
Elbowed : JOSTLED
29
Most pilose : HAIRIEST
31
Obligation : DEBT
34
West Indies resort island : ANTIGUA
35
It comes with a pink slip : HEAVEHO
38
Dizzy, for one : DEAN
39
Made a selection : BALLOTED
40
San Francisco district : NOBHILL
43
See to : TEND
44
Place for a small dog : LAP
47
Wrecks : RUINS
48
Bowling target : PIN
49
Learned : EDUCATED
51
Henhouse feature : ROOST
54
Institute : FOMENT
55
Cinnamon stone : ESSONITE
58
Séance occurrence : TRANCE
59
Trapped again : RESNARED
60
Word with day or year : YESTER
61
Bradshaw and Swann : STEELERS
Down
1
Speedy : FAST
2
Central European river : ODER
3
Necessity : REQUISITE
4
Rider : EQUESTRIAN
5
Leather fabric : SUEDE
6
Sun-bath result : TAN
7
Common abbr. : ETC
8
Most profound : DEEPEST
9
At the tip : APICAL
10
Retreat : BACKPEDAL
11
Western Indians : UTES
12
Woman's loose robe : SIMAR
13
Legislate : ENACT
14
Composer of "Silver Threads Among the Gold" : DANKS
21
Perform : ACT
23
Sub ___ (covertly) : ROSA
25
Villain's exclamation : AHA
26
Hosiery shade : SAND
27
Game, to Georges : JEU
28
Worship service : DEVOTIONAL
30
Illiteracy : IGNORANCE
32
Bugaboo : BETENOIRE
33
After that : THEN
35
"La Bohémienne" painter : HALS
36
Building wing : ELL
37
Bizarre : ODD
39
Notebooks : BINDERS
41
Bread spread : BUTTER
42
Make haste : HIE
44
Grove, for one : LEFTY
45
Worship : ADORE
46
Big cats : PUMAS
48
Lying facedown : PRONE
50
Where to see Lincoln : CENT
52
Suffix with young or road : STER
53
Mack and Williams : TEDS
56
Coterie : SET
57
Compass point : SSE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 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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