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Virginia Butler
Virginia Butler

New York Times, Saturday, July 17, 1976

4-Down : "___! that bread should be so dear"

Author:
Virginia Butler
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { F J K Q W X Y }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 12, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 39.6
Virginia Butler has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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G
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A
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L
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M
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B
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,835
Across
1
"Cry ___" : HAVOC
6
Detest : HATE
10
Young sheep : TEGS
14
Spanish friend : AMIGO
15
"See ___, pick ... " : APIN
16
Notion : IDEA
17
Notorious city : SODOM
18
John the Baptist, to Jesus : PRECURSOR
20
Exterminator of fiction : PIEDPIPER
22
"___ say more?" : NEEDI
23
Lemon and lime ___ : ADES
24
Confuses : ADDLES
25
"Let that be a ___ to you" : LESSON
28
Bravo! : OLE
29
Mends : HEALS
30
Politician's asset : CHARISMA
35
Final stanza : ENVOI
36
Cuba libre base : RUM
37
Slow mover : SNAIL
38
Complete : TEETOTAL
40
Belief : TENET
41
Opposite of pos. : NEG
42
Word for a hussy : BRAZEN
44
Informal : CASUAL
48
Inflexible : IRON
49
Kind of wise : LEAST
50
One of 26 : AMENDMENT
55
Good seat location : ORCHESTRA
57
Old region of Asia Minor : IONIA
58
Desperate : DIRE
59
Guinness : ALEC
60
"___ a Stranger" : NOTAS
61
Crystal-gazer : SEER
62
Lillian or Dorothy : GISH
63
Vulgar : GROSS
Down
1
Door holder : HASP
2
Mine, in France : AMOI
3
Latin referral word : VIDE
4
"___! that bread should be so dear" : OGOD
5
Sympathetic : COMPASSIONATE
6
Come about : HAPPEN
7
___ ski : APRES
8
Layer : TIER
9
Business-letter abbr. : ENC
10
Hackneyed : TIRED
11
Ford's mistake : EDSEL
12
Hollow stone : GEODE
13
Ranis' gowns : SARIS
19
Entente, for one : UNDERSTANDING
21
Words of assent : IDO
24
Wing : ALA
25
Unaspirated : LENE
26
Roof part : EAVE
27
Deer track : SLOT
28
Electrical unit : OHM
29
___ up (in a snit) : HET
30
___-de-sac : CUL
31
Don Juan's mother : INEZ
32
Healthy : SANE
33
Carriage : MIEN
34
Old, in Cologne : ALT
36
Tease : RAG
39
Wire: Abbr. : TEL
42
Dissension : BREACH
43
Swoboda : RON
44
Dolts : CLODS
45
High dwelling : AERIE
46
"___ bleu!" : SACRE
47
House that fell : USHER
48
Hungary's Nagy et al. : IMRES
50
Gudrun's victim : ATLI
51
Make fast : MOOR
52
Within: Prefix : ENTO
53
Island off Sumatra : NIAS
54
Russian agency : TASS
56
___ Harbor : SAG

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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