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Samuel K. Fliegner
Samuel K. Fliegner

New York Times, Thursday, August 5, 1976

4-Down : Foreign-language film aid

Author:
Samuel K. Fliegner
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F J X }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 61.1 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Samuel K. Fliegner has 36 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,854
Across
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Dieter's target area : HIPS
5
Sedate : STAID
10
Place for two birds : BUSH
14
Biblical dupe : ESAU
15
Brahman's "club" : CASTE
16
Aztec's contemporary : INCA
17
Party pooper : WETBLANKET
19
Medieval land holding : ODAL
20
One of the genders : NEUTER
21
Rising : EMERGENT
23
Acquired family member : INLAW
25
___-do-well : NEER
26
Walked stealthily : TIPTOED
29
Golf positions : STANCES
32
Wading bird : RAIL
33
Kind of board : TEETER
35
Mouths : ORA
36
Man and Emerald : ISLES
38
___ Paulo : SAO
39
Enjoy : SAVOR
41
Not any, in law : NUL
42
Second or human : NATURE
45
Black-fin snapper : SESI
46
Sequester : ISOLATE
48
___ d'hotel : MAITRES
50
Lie in ___ : WAIT
51
Partner of frankincense : MYRRH
52
Discolored, as by a burn : USTULATE
55
Founder of Taoism : LAOTSE
59
Item on a military shoulder : STAR
60
Jumble : CRAZYQUILT
62
Arias : SOLI
63
Proof mark : CARET
64
Mastery, in Scotland : GREE
65
Lothario : RAKE
66
Beloved, in Spain : AMADO
67
"___ tricks?" : HOWS
Down
1
Chopped : HEWN
2
"Peekaboo, ___ you" : ISEE
3
Maori weapon : PATU
4
Foreign-language film aid : SUBTITLE
5
Color for a letter : SCARLET
6
Oak bark : TAN
7
Crooked : ASKEW
8
Agenda unit : ITEM
9
Easing of relations : DETENTE
10
Hypothetical cell unit : BIOGEN
11
Kind of agent : UNDERCOVER
12
Look over : SCAN
13
Drill command : HALT
18
Curtain fabric : LENO
22
Nurtures : REARS
24
"___ fideles" : ADESTE
26
Singer Lopez : TRINI
27
Father of Atalanta : IASUS
28
Boudoir chitchat : PILLOWTALK
29
Riotous : STORMY
30
Uneven : EROSE
31
Hindu garments : SARIS
34
French thirst-quencher : EAU
37
Slow one : SNAIL
40
Seemingly : ASTHOUGH
43
Without pause, in music : ATTACCA
44
Words with bed and rise : EARLYTO
47
Annie of song : LAURIE
49
Basra's land : IRAQ
51
Stiller's partner : MEARA
52
World power : USSR
53
Portico : STOA
54
Conveyance : TRAM
56
Novice: Var. : TIRO
57
Oodles : SLEW
58
French seasons : ETES
61
Last letter, to British : ZED

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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