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Hugh McElroy
Hugh McElroy

New York Times, Saturday, March 16, 1974

40-Across : Irish river

Author:
Hugh McElroy
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Min Word Len: 4, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9, Grid flow: 21.4
Hugh McElroy has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 8,981
Across
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Pond film : SCUM
5
Alphabet vanguard : ABCD
9
Plant deep : EMBED
14
Verboten : TABU
15
Wild plum : SLOE
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Running knot : NOOSE
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Pal for Andy : AMOS
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___ de combat : HORS
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Relative of a hex : CURSE
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Words written by a saintly man : IPATRICKASINNER
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" ... as those that will ___" : NOTSEE
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Insincere talk : CANT
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Sea birds : ERNS
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Lugubrious one : MOANER
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Sharp blow : WHACK
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Seeker of Moby Dick : AHAB
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City in Kansas : IOLA
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Costly : HIGH
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Irish river : AVOCA
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Missile : NIKE
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River to the Baltic : ODER
43
Lab-slide item : GERM
44
Cow barns, in England : BYRES
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Breed of sheep : MERINO
47
___ trap for : SETA
49
Miss Teasdale : SARA
51
Sulking : INAPET
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When green ties sell well : ONSTPATRICKSEVE
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Knot again : RETIE
62
Skinny : LANK
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Farm cart : WAIN
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Lend ___ : ANEAR
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Yorkshire river : AIRE
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Deed: Fr. : ACTE
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Comic Bruce : LENNY
68
Coaster : SLED
69
Tidy : NEAT
Down
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Color, as glass : STAIN
2
Argentine plain : CAMPO
3
German sub : UBOAT
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"Have-to" chores : MUSTS
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More pallid : ASHIER
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Political group : BLOC
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City, county or stopper : CORK
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Cul-___ : DESAC
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Los Angeles suburb : ENCINO
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Like much of Erin's coast : MOUNTAINY
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"___ Free" : BORN
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Actual being : ESSE
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Bambi, for one : DEER
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Fume : REEK
22
Latin dance : SAMBA
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Church part : NAVE
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Toots and family : SHORS
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Rouge et ___ : NOIR
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Actress Sommer : ELKE
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Arctic explorer et al. : RAES
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Pronoun : WHOM
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___ nor hair : HIDE
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Worker on radio tubes : AGER
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Modern era : CHRISTIAN
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Highest point : ACME
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Market place : AGORA
44
Ground by a river : BANK
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Table linens : NAPERY
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Made clock sounds : TICKED
50
Strong one : ATLAS
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Dam site : ASWAN
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Dove's quest : PEACE
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Name for Perón's wife : EVITA
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Dogma : TENET
56
Voiced : ORAL
57
Hawaiian goose : NENE
58
British gun : STEN
59
Marsh bird : RAIL
60
Pertaining to : INRE

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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