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S. A. Kay
New York Times, Wednesday, January 4, 1967
23-Down : Room to swing ___.
Author:
S. A. Kay
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 313 (avg 1.67)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 34.2
S. A. Kay has 118 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 L | 2 E | 3 M | 4 A | 5 B | 6 A | 7 S | 8 T | 9 E | 10 F | 11 A | 12 N | 13 S |
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14 A | V | E | C | 15 O | R | I | O | N | 16 A | L | I | T |
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17 V | E | E | R | 18 G | A | Z | E | D | 19 L | U | C | I |
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20 E | N | R | I | 21 C | O | 22 E | S | P | 23 A | L | I | E | R |
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24 M | O | T | 25 O | 26 I | C | A | ||||||||
27 A | 28 U | 29 R | O | R | A | B | 30 O | 31 R | E | A | L | 32 I | 33 S | |
34 R | H | I | N | E | 35 E | R | E | C | T | 36 N | A | 37 P |
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38 C | L | O | Y | 39 B | R | A | V | E | 40 S | T | L | O |
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41 H | A | D | 42 M | A | O | R | I | 43 B | A | R | O | N |
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44 N | E | 45 V | E | R | N | E | V | 46 E | R | L | A | N | D |
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47 O | R | B | 48 E | L | E | V | ||||||||
49 I | 50 N | 51 C | R | E | A | 52 S | 53 E | 54 A | W | A | 55 K | 56 E | 57 S |
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58 M | E | A | T | 59 D | A | V | 60 I | T | 61 D | O | Z | E |
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62 P | A | V | E | 63 O | G | I | V | E | 64 O | K | R | A |
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65 S | T | Y | X | 66 S | A | L | A | D | 67 R | O | A | M |
© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,353
Across
1
Golf star. : LEMA
5
Sew. : BASTE
10
Blows on. : FANS
14
With: Fr. : AVEC
15
Celestial body. : ORION
16
Got down. : ALIT
17
Shift. : VEER
18
Eyed with eagerness. : GAZED
19
One of the Nugents. : LUCI
20
Fermi. : ENRICO
22
Garden latticework. : ESPALIER
24
Marquand's sleuth. : MOTO
26
City in Peru. : ICA
27
Celestial sight. : AURORABOREALIS
34
Strasbourg's river. : RHINE
35
Set up. : ERECT
36
Downy covering. : NAP
38
Surfeit. : CLOY
39
Indian. : BRAVE
40
French town. : STLO
41
Enjoyed. : HAD
42
Native of North Island. : MAORI
43
Personage of a sort. : BARON
44
Illusory existence. : NEVERNEVERLAND
47
Globular body. : ORB
48
Height: Abbr. : ELEV
49
Multiply. : INCREASE
54
Rouses. : AWAKES
58
Cutlets. : MEAT
59
Ship's crane. : DAVIT
61
Cat nap. : DOZE
62
Macadamize. : PAVE
63
Pointed arch. : OGIVE
64
Plant pods. : OKRA
65
River of myth. : STYX
66
Coleslaw. : SALAD
67
Stray. : ROAM
Down
1
Flow along. : LAVE
2
Placid. : EVEN
3
Sea: Ger. : MEER
4
Sharpness of language. : ACRIMONY
5
Capital of Colombia. : BOGOTA
6
Macaw. : ARA
7
Giant or jumbo. : SIZE
8
"And bells on her ___." : TOES
9
Tailboard, for one. : ENDPIECE
10
Useless piece of finery. : FALLAL
11
His: Fr. : ALUI
12
Delightful. : NICE
13
Be up and about. : STIR
21
Nucleus. : CORE
23
Room to swing ___. : ACAT
25
Folklore king. : OBERON
27
Roguish. : ARCH
28
Hussar's cousin. : UHLAN
29
___ Janeiro. : RIODE
30
To pray: It. : ORARE
31
Enliven. : REVIVE
32
Within: Lat. : INTRA
33
Gallery. : SALON
37
Walden, for one. : POND
39
West Indies island. : BARBADOS
40
Central American republic (with "El"). : SALVADOR
42
Nothing more than. : MERE
43
Concoct. : BREW
45
Eddy. : VORTEX
46
Cock-a-hoop. : ELATED
49
Folk tale people. : IMPS
50
Not slipshod. : NEAT
51
Guinea pig. : CAVY
52
Long tale. : SAGA
53
Malefic. : EVIL
55
Yum-Yum's guardian. : KOKO
56
Book after the Chronicles. : EZRA
57
Juncture. : SEAM
60
Salt marsh plant. : IVA
Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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