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Joseph LaFauci
Joseph LaFauci

New York Times, Friday, January 11, 1963

Author:
Joseph LaFauci
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 93, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 2, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 12.0 Grid has duplicate clues.
Joseph LaFauci has 70 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

Unlike most other puzzles of this era, this puzzle did not include periods after the clues, so they were left out.

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H
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E
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D
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R
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V
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B
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G
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L
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O
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F
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G
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L
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L
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C
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L
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D
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M
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S
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A
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D
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N
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D
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H
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© 1963, The New York TimesNo. 4,924
Across
1
Vacillated : HESITATED
10
Master of the heroic couplet : POPE
14
Island group between Turkey and Crete : DODECANESE
15
Part of a range : OVEN
16
Where scholars congregate : UNIVERSITY
17
Pavilion : TENT
18
Noise of surf on the shore : ROTE
19
Story : TALE
20
Giuseppe of music : VERDI
21
Convey : BRING
23
Country lout in "Merry Wives" : SLENDER
25
Department in E France : AIN
26
Coop or house for pigeons : LOFT
30
Harmonious : INTUNE
31
Shrew's cousin : NAG
32
Ancient name for Armenia : ARARAT
34
Hire out : LET
35
In manner unyielding : ADAMANTLY
37
Aelurophile's favorite : CAT
39
Chess move : CASTLE
40
Youth : LAD
43
Earthly : MORTAL
45
Observed : SEEN
46
Musical adaptation: Abbr. : ARR
47
Marshaled : ARRAYED
49
Criticize severely : DECRY
51
Vestige : TRACE
52
Leather strip on a shoe : RAND
56
Infertile : ARID
57
Anserine cry : HONK
58
Tending to allow : TOLERATIVE
60
Brink : EDGE
61
Joe Doakes : AVERAGEMAN
62
Famed U.S. Army doctor : REED
63
Resembling a geometric figure : DECAGONAL
Down
1
Heroine of poem by 42 Down : HONORIA
2
Newspaper work : EDITING
3
Score in a dice game : SEVEN
4
Dessert : ICE
5
Dessert : TART
6
Handle: Lat. : ANSA
7
Linden tree : TEIL
8
Senatorial first name : ESTES
9
Ruler, as in Tripoli : DEY
10
With great force : POTENTLY
11
Delayed : OVERDUE
12
Hanging : PENDENT
13
Undiminished : ENTIRE
14
Port on Natal Bay : DURBAN
20
Archdeacon's title : VEN
22
Cheering : GLAD
24
Epithet for many a Dickens character : LITTLE
27
Sage : ORACLE
28
Rumor, personified : FAMA
29
Volcanic earth : TRASS
33
___ omnia (first of all): Lat. : ANTE
35
Began working on energetically : ATTACKED
36
Give : LEND
37
Eat into : CORRODE
38
Make plans : ARRANGE
40
A tear: Lat. : LACRIMA
41
Coming : ARRIVAL
42
Restoration poet and dramatist : DRYDEN
43
Minister who was Harvard's president 1685–1701 : MATHER
44
Ever : AYE
48
Crowd : DROVE
50
Consumed : EATEN
53
Relative of Sandy : ALEC
54
Small tributary of the Tiber : NERA
55
Pull : DRAG
58
Little shaver : TAD
59
Make ___ of : AGO

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

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