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Elaine D. Schorr
Elaine D. Schorr

New York Times, Friday, July 13, 1979

15-Down : Move along sinuously

Author:
Elaine D. Schorr
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.28, Missing: { F J Q X }, Scrabble score: 311 (avg 1.64)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 10, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 29.0
Elaine D. Schorr has 49 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,839
Across
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Hoffman or Farnum : DUSTIN
7
Dance step : CHASSE
13
Queued up : INLINE
14
Shakes a leg : HASTENS
16
In apple-pie order : SLICKASAWHISTLE
19
Spasmodic sound : HIC
20
Still-hunt : STALK
21
Achilles' killer : PARIS
22
___ out (stretched) : EKED
24
Boy Scout, at times : HIKER
26
Start of the N.T. : MATT
27
Car style : SEDAN
29
Erato's instrument : LYRE
30
U.S. satellite : ECHO
31
Damsel : LASS
33
"To ___ with Love" : SIR
35
See 50 Down : TEC
36
Quiescent : ATREST
39
Brief toast : CHEERS
41
Much-used article : THE
42
Monopolist : HOG
44
In the home of: Fr. : CHEZ
45
A son of Leah and Jacob : LEVI
47
Killer whale : ORCA
49
"The Sheik of ___," 1921 song : ARABY
53
Foretoken : OMEN
54
Chronicle of a sort : DIARY
56
Island group off New Guinea : AROE
57
Bellini heroine : NORMA
59
Camel's backbreaker : STRAW
61
Relative, familiarly : SIS
62
Expedite : GREASETHEWHEELS
65
Designate : ENTITLE
66
Group now living in Oklahoma : PAWNEE
67
Legal ___ : TENDER
68
Some Arabs : STEEDS
Down
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Cookbook array : DISHES
2
Dissimilar : UNLIKE
3
Made a poor tee shot : SLICED
4
Obsession : TIC
5
Printing fluids : INKS
6
Under, bard style : NEATH
7
Cretaceous : CHALKY
8
Sidewalk sellers : HAWKERS
9
Wood for bats : ASH
10
Yugoslav tobacco-shipping town : STIP
11
Ruskin's "___ and Lilies" : SESAME
12
Theatrical interval : ENTRACTE
15
Move along sinuously : SLITHER
17
Features of the Bounty : SAILS
18
Renaissance rapiers : ESTOCS
23
Rural place : DALE
25
Hitler's Third ___ : REICH
28
Poet Ogden : NASH
32
Undid the lap : STOOD
34
"Mother of the Gods" : RHEA
36
"___ Last Love," 1938 song : ATLONG
37
"___ I See of You," 1945 song : THEMORE
38
Profoundly respectful : REVERENT
40
Poet Pound : EZRA
43
Cartilage : GRISTLE
44
Writer John Le ___ : CARRE
46
Reformatory resident : INMATE
48
She wrote "My Antonia" : CATHER
50
Lupin : ARSENE
51
___ lobster : BOILED
52
Assents : YESSES
55
Makes raucous noises : YAWPS
58
Hindu month : ASIN
60
"How's that again?" : WHAT
63
Airport listing: Abbr. : ETD
64
Ram's dam : EWE

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

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