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George Madrid
New York Times, Wednesday, November 12, 1975
11-Down : Tight as a tick
Author:
George Madrid
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 2, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
George Madrid has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 C | 2 U | 3 R | 4 L | 5 S | 6 T | 7 I | 8 G | 9 E | 10 R | 11 L | 12 A | 13 B |
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14 A | L | E | U | T | 15 A | D | O | R | E | 16 U | L | A |
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17 P | U | B | C | R | 18 A | W | L | E | R | S | 19 B | A | R |
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20 T | A | S | K | 21 U | S | E | S | 22 T | 23 U | R | I | N |
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24 Y | 25 R | S | 26 O | 27 K | A | P | I | |||||||
28 C | 29 L | 30 I | M | E | 31 R | 32 O | U | E | 33 S | C | 34 O | 35 T |
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36 O | O | N | A | S | 37 A | N | T | E | 38 D | 39 A | C | R |
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40 M | O | R | N | I | 41 N | G | A | F | T | E | 42 R | T | H | E |
43 E | N | A | 44 N | O | T | T | O | 45 L | E | E | R | Y |
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46 T | Y | R | 47 E | 48 T | I | E | R | 49 F | A | D | E | S |
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50 E | F | 51 R | E | M | 52 S | T | D | |||||||
53 L | 54 O | F | T | Y | 55 E | 56 C | 57 C | E | 58 Y | 59 L | 60 E | 61 M |
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62 A | M | O | 63 N | 64 I | G | H | T | B | 65 E | F | O | R | E |
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66 M | A | R | 67 D | R | A | I | N | 68 R | O | D | I | N |
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69 A | R | M | 70 S | A | L | T | S | 71 G | R | I | N | D |
© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,587
Across
1
Sausage and spit : CURLS
6
Kind of lily : TIGER
11
Testing place : LAB
14
Native of Alaska : ALEUT
15
Like a lot : ADORE
16
Oahu dance, to a Cockney : ULA
17
Restless drinkers : PUBCRAWLERS
19
Drinking spot : BAR
20
Assignment : TASK
21
Works with : USES
22
City in Italy : TURIN
24
Age units: Abbr. : YRS
26
Giraffe's kin : OKAPI
28
Region, to poets : CLIME
31
Dissolute one : ROUE
33
Perth native : SCOT
36
Mrs. Chaplin and others : OONAS
37
Fed the pot : ANTED
39
Height: Prefix : ACR
40
Drinker's nadir, with 63 Across : MORNINGAFTERTHE
43
Spanish queen : ENA
44
" ... or ___ be" : NOTTO
45
Suspicious : LEERY
46
Phoenician port : TYRE
48
Row : TIER
49
Bets at dice : FADES
50
Zimbalist : EFREM
52
Part of E.S.T.: Abbr. : STD
53
High : LOFTY
55
___ homo : ECCE
58
Source of all matter : YLEM
62
I love, to Cato : AMO
63
See 40 Across : NIGHTBEFORE
66
Impair : MAR
67
Exhaust : DRAIN
68
French sculptor : RODIN
69
Equip : ARM
70
Seasons : SALTS
71
Powder : GRIND
Down
1
Mil. rank : CAPT
2
Hawaiian fish : ULUA
3
Lee's men, for short : REBS
4
Raffle winner, e.g. : LUCKYMAN
5
Orch. section : STR
6
Playing marbles : TAWS
7
Ineffective : IDLE
8
Tries to make, as a team : GOESOUTFOR
9
Slip : ERR
10
Remainder: Sp. : RESTA
11
Tight as a tick : LUBRICATED
12
Jai ___ : ALAI
13
Type of dance : BARN
18
Eur. country : AUS
23
Raises : UPS
25
Pitch : RESIN
27
Guinea hen's nestling : KEET
28
Heavenly passer-by : COMET
29
Kind of bin : LOONY
30
Hale and hearty : INRAREFORM
31
Swinger in old song : RAGTIMEGAL
32
Spanish explorer : ONATE
34
Color : OCHRE
35
Four of 52 : TREYS
38
Souvenir of Holland : DELFT
41
Eminence : NOTE
42
Prepared : READYFOR
47
Newt : EFT
51
Millstone supports : RYNDS
52
Grease: Prefix : SEB
53
Lhasa V.I.P. : LAMA
54
Ancient poet : OMAR
56
Tab : CHIT
57
Cardboard boxes: Abbr. : CTNS
59
City in New Jersey : LODI
60
"___ go bragh" : ERIN
61
Set right : MEND
64
Gershwin : IRA
65
Unit of work : ERG
Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 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.