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Adelyn Lewis
Adelyn Lewis

New York Times, Saturday, January 13, 1979

37-Down : Flapped, as sails against yards

Author:
Adelyn Lewis
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 23, Avg Word Len: 5.94, Missing: { F G J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 247 (avg 1.22)
Open Squares: 104, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9, Grid flow: 91.4 Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Adelyn Lewis has 9 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,658
Across
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Wingless : APTERAN
8
Ecclesiast's headgear : BIRETTA
15
Rock formation : TERRANE
16
Supergiant star in Scorpio : ANTARES
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Philosophical doctrines : TRANSCENDENTALS
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Coffee receptacle : URN
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Roman household gods : PENATES
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Born : NEE
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Word after decree : NISI
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Savory : SAPID
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Soc. : ASSN
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Bagnold et al. : ENIDS
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Edge : HEM
29
Medieval helmet : ARMET
30
Choose : SELECT
32
Hit plays : SELLOUTS
34
Preminger's first major U.S. film : LAURA
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Tours toast : SALUT
37
Has a speech problem : STUTTERS
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Cul-___ (blind alleys) : DESACS
43
Cripples : LAMES
44
Min. part : SEC
46
Capital of Morocco : RABAT
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Rara ___ : AVIS
48
French Impressionist : MONET
50
Italian monetary unit : LIRA
51
Dress size : TEN
52
Expendable Mexican clay pots : PINATAS
54
Year in reign of Claudius I : LII
55
Act of putting into another alphabet : TRANSLITERATION
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Involves necessarily : ENTAILS
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Give a new name to : RETITLE
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Like some eyes : DEEPSET
61
Made a chemical analysis : ASSAYED
Down
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Harmonizes : ATTUNES
2
Valerie from Galveston : PERRINE
3
Cause light to pass through : TRANSILLUMINATE
4
Sea eagle : ERN
5
Scrape : RASP
6
Suffixes for attend and convey : ANCES
7
City on Lake Winnebago : NEENAH
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Depressions and recessions : BADTIMES
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"You're All ___," old song : INEED
10
Election Day stats. : RTNS
11
Consume : EAT
12
Potentiality for changing form : TRANSMUTABILITY
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Family-room feature : TELESET
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Sanctions : ASSENTS
18
Neck parts : NAPES
23
Thinks : IDEATES
25
Awakening : AROUSAL
27
Rabbit tails : SCUTS
29
River into the Weser : ALLER
31
Three, in Roma : TRE
33
Terhune dog : LAD
35
Firebug : ARSONIST
37
Flapped, as sails against yards : SLATTED
38
Cannes cafe : TAVERNE
39
French legislators : SENAT
41
One-horse carriage : CARIOLE
42
Kind of glass : STAINED
45
Et ___ (and so forth) : CETERA
48
Thousand, to Tacitus : MILLE
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Container weights : TARES
52
Greek letters : PSIS
53
Calendar abbrs. : SATS
56
Doze : NAP
57
Spanish aunt : TIA

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

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