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Joan DeRosso
Joan DeRosso

New York Times, Friday, August 30, 1974

68-Across : Lively folk dances

Author:
Joan DeRosso
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 315 (avg 1.65)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Joan DeRosso has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,148
Across
1
Burn : CHAR
5
Military cap : SHAKO
10
Women's ___ : LIB
13
Architecture, to von Schelling : FROZENMUSIC
15
Made of: Suffix : INE
16
Troublemaker, to Marxian purists : REVISIONIST
17
Naval rank: Abbr. : CDR
18
Certain night or bid : OPENING
19
Paint the town red : STEPOUT
21
Debussy subject : MER
22
Pesters : NAGS
24
Singer or bearer : TORCH
25
Familiar Latin verb : ESSE
27
Squeal : YELP
30
Small monkey : TITI
31
Roadside sign : GAS
34
Conceal : VEIL
36
Swindle : CON
37
Hint of bigger things : TIPOFTHEICEBERG
42
Marshall Plan initials : ECA
43
Travel-folder offering : TOUR
44
Long ___ : AGO
45
Infant, in Cádiz : NENA
47
Do a garden chore : WEED
49
Inventor James : WATT
53
Pile up : AMASS
55
Secluded valley : DELL
58
___ Harbor : BAR
59
Commemorative designs : CACHETS
62
Main attraction : FEATURE
64
Presidential nickname : IKE
65
Anti-inflationary move : PRICEFREEZE
67
Social event : TEA
68
Lively folk dances : TARANTELLAS
69
Times: Abbr. : YRS
70
Exhaust : SPEND
71
O'Casey : SEAN
Down
1
Gourmet desserts : CREPES
2
Vacillates : HOVERS
3
Dye class: Var. : AZIN
4
Pine-tree product : RESIN
5
Like city air : SMOGGY
6
Vandal : HUN
7
Words on a sale tag : ASIS
8
Coffer, in Scotland : KIST
9
Musical piece : OCTET
10
Candy flavor : LICORICE
11
Circuit device : INDUCTOR
12
Docking : BERTHING
13
Ethan : FROME
14
Actress Foch : NINA
20
___-au-feu : POT
23
Iris Murdoch's "A ___ Head" : SEVERED
26
Self : EGO
28
Wreath : LEI
29
Type measure : PICA
32
Sternward : AFT
33
Put away : STOW
35
Trip part : LEG
37
Perseverance : TENACITY
38
Refrigerator, at times : ICEMAKER
39
Cure-alls : PANACEAS
40
Cry's partner : HUE
41
Clara of films : BOW
46
Mountain ___ : ASH
48
Protect : DEFEND
50
Grandmother, in Granada : ABUELA
51
Burroughs creation : TARZAN
52
Natural golf hazards : TREES
54
Family branches : SEPTS
56
Decamped : LEFT
57
Household gods : LARES
60
Sand or mouse : TRAP
61
Father : SIRE
63
Prefix for gram and phone : TELE
66
Container : CAN

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

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