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Leonard Sussman
Leonard Sussman

New York Times, Wednesday, January 15, 1964

63-Across : Football groups.

Author:
Leonard Sussman
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 4.77, Missing: { H Q V W Z }, Scrabble score: 300 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 56, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Leonard Sussman has 40 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1964, The New York TimesNo. 5,281
Across
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Sting. : BARB
5
First word of well-known hymn. : ABIDE
10
Global area: Abbr. : SPAM
14
General Bradley. : OMAR
15
Angler's bait. : LURES
16
Mongols' city. : URGA
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Munro's pen name. : SAKI
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Boisterous. : KNOCKABOUT
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Hard. : STEELY
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Famous cartoonist. : NAST
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Balmoral's river. : DEE
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Complete a form. : FILLIN
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Chou en ___. : LAI
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Singer. : BASS
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Stage designer's concern. : SETTINGS
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Container. : JAR
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___ café. : POUSSE
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Metrical foot. : IAMB
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Not quite. : ALMOST
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Kind of metal: Scot. : SILLER
42
Frame of mind. : MOOD
43
Negotiates. : TREATS
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Papal name. : LEO
48
Deep. : PROFOUND
50
Beans. : SOYS
52
Son of Gad. : ERI
53
Jewels. : BIJOUX
55
State further. : ADD
57
Recedes. : EBBS
59
Make up for. : RECOUP
63
Football groups. : BACKFIELDS
66
Seaweed. : ALGA
67
Clique. : CLAN
68
System of belief. : CREDO
69
Streamlet. : RILL
70
Spanish artist. : SERT
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German industrial city. : ESSEN
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Dolls. : TOYS
Down
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Tweed, for one. : BOSS
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Amo, amas, ___. : AMAT
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Garden tool. : RAKE
4
Lawyer's concern. : BRIEFS
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Chemist's term. : ALKYL
6
Small roll. : BUN
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Tricks of fate. : IRONIES
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Pours, as wine. : DECANTS
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Hudson Bay natives: Abbr. : ESKS
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___ rosa. : SUB
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Lavishly. : PRODIGALLY
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Chill. : AGUE
13
Navy man. : MATE
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Husband of Gudrun. : ATLI
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Speech sounds. : LISPS
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Southern college: Abbr. : LSU
27
Dyestuff. : ANIL
28
Slide or card used in TV. : BALOP
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Vehicle of a sort. : ARMOREDCAR
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Student's bugaboo. : TEST
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Merganser's cousins. : SMEES
33
Bread spread. : JAM
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Eight, in Rome. : OTTO
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Member of the family: Abbr. : BRO
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Attar. : ODOR
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Philatelist's concern. : ISSUE
44
Footwear. : RUBBERS
45
Isolates: Poet. : ENISLES
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Army officer: Abbr. : ADJ
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Feudal land. : FIEF
51
Vehicle, old style. : OXCART
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Name meaning a bear. : ORSON
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Fundamentals. : ABCS
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Smith's partner. : DALE
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Grayish blue. : BICE
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Potpourri. : OLIO
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Kind of duckling. : UGLY
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Buddies. : PALS
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Chess abbreviation. : KNT
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Presidential monogram. : DDE

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

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