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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

New York Times, Thursday, January 12, 1967

14-Across : Shape of a pocket.

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 45.4
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,361
Across
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Umpire's call. : SAFE
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Parts of dates. : PITS
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Realms: Suffix. : DOMS
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Operatic role. : IGOR
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Shape of a pocket. : UCUT
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Inappropriate. : UNAPT
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Evening, in Roma. : SERA
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Arab name for Egypt. : MISR
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Minute groove. : STRIA
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Begins. : SETSUP
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Prolongs. : SUSTAINS
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Propensity: Colloq. : YEN
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Burlesque. : MOCK
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Cosmic ___. : RAYS
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Dismisses abruptly. : SENDSPACKING
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Kimono adjunct. : OBI
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State: Abbr. : ARK
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Adds on. : TIESTO
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Part of ESP. : SENSORY
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Something abbreviated. : BOBTAIL
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___ punch. : ONETWO
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Sum for expenses: Abbr. : ALW
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Initials of the 1930's. : NRA
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Unexpectedly. : ALLOFASUDDEN
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Yankee: Abbr. : AMER
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Results: Abbr. : EFFS
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Zing. : PEP
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Orderly list. : CALENDAR
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Baseball play. : ASSIST
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Girl of song. : CHLOE
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Shower. : RAIN
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English painter. : OPIE
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Spoil. : TAINT
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River to the North Sea. : TYNE
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Head: Fr. : TETE
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Grounds. : LEES
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An NCO. : SSGT
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Raw materials. : ORES
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Sibilant sound. : SISS
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Awry. : AGEE
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Alaska's number. : FORTYNINE
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Blotted out. : ERASED
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Kind of shoe. : PUMP
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Here: Fr. : ICI
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Thick clump of grass. : TUSSOCK
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Swung and missed. : STRUCK
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Fine particles. : DUST
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Well-aimed. : ONTARGET
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Hemingway heroine. : MARIA
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Thorny. : SPINY
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Foreign press agency. : TASS
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Young'___. : UNS
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Sun Valley gear. : SKITOWS
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Nursery rhyme character. : MARY
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Tolerable. : SOSO
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Man's name, for short. : EBEN
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Released conditionally. : PAROLED
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Pen point. : NIB
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Plover's cousin. : SANDPIPER
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Jade. : TIRE
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Pearl Buck heroine. : OLAN
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___ in the face. : STAREONE
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Wise bird. : OWL
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Gil ___. : BLAS
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Brawls. : AFFRAYS
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Bachelor ___. : OFARTS
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Prosperous periods. : UPS
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Spanish explorer. : DESOTO
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C. P. A. : ACCT
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Taj ___. : MAHAL
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Girl's nickname. : ELLIE
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Trawls. : NETS
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Swiss writer. : ANET
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Local position. : SITE
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River of England. : TEES
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Verb ending. : ING

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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