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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Tuesday, January 8, 1980

43-Across : Does: Poet.

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q V }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 26.4
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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P
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B
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,018
Across
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Common name in Svendborg : OLAF
5
By mouth : ORAL
9
Run off : ELOPE
14
With 3 Down, Western city : PALO
15
How some like their steak : RARE
16
Classified : TYPED
17
Famous last words : ETTU
18
"Region of the rising sun" : ASIA
19
Desist : CEASE
20
Swindle : SHORTCHANGE
23
Chaney : LON
24
___ la (part song) : FAL
25
He lived 912 years : SETH
27
Surgeons' needs : SCALPELS
32
Large numbers : SCORES
36
The ___ (European city) : HAGUE
37
Bribes: Slang : OILS
39
Get one's dander up : RILE
40
You were, in ancient Roma : ERAS
41
Musical instrument of a sort : KAZOO
42
Reputation : NAME
43
Does: Poet. : DOTH
44
Drinks : ADES
45
___ Dal, Swedish river : OSTER
46
Ready for bed : SLEEPY
48
Sci-fi flick : STARWARS
50
Stroll far and wide : ROAM
52
"Winterset" hero : MIO
53
Browne of belt fame : SAM
56
Flimflam : SKULDUGGERY
62
Carpentry, for one : CRAFT
64
Site of a Western art colony : TAOS
65
Bearded antelopes : GNUS
66
Orphan on B'way : ANNIE
67
To exist, in Dieppe : ETRE
68
Ear part : LOBE
69
Chinese rebellion: 1900 : BOXER
70
Offspring : SEED
71
Jug : EWER
Down
1
Uncovers: Poet. : OPES
2
Wood strip supporting plaster : LATH
3
See 14 Across : ALTO
4
Faker : FOURFLUSHER
5
Source of revelations : ORACLE
6
Too quick : RASH
7
Solo : ARIA
8
Tends : LEANS
9
Words of Anna's king, for short : ETCETC
10
Soap ingredient : LYE
11
Translucent gem : OPAL
12
Monetary unit : PESO
13
State of bliss : EDEN
21
Scotch ___ : TAPE
22
Plaster of paris : GESSO
26
Bamboozle : HORNSWOGGLE
27
Diffuses; radiates : SHEDS
28
Warble : CAROL
29
Child's marble : AGATE
30
Gun charge : LOAD
31
Estimates, with "up" : SIZES
33
Lasso : RIATA
34
Playwright Rice : ELMER
35
Clairvoyants : SEERS
38
Was beaten : LOST
41
Sealskin-covered canoe : KAYAK
45
First: Abbr. : ORIG
47
Toulouse-Lautrec specialty : POSTER
49
"We are not ___": Queen Victoria : AMUSED
51
Tones down : MUTES
53
Strikebreaker : SCAB
54
Memorable cartoonist : ARNO
55
Tailless cat : MANX
57
Off schedule : LATE
58
French illustrator-painter : DORE
59
"Oh, Wilderness were Paradise ___!" : ENOW
60
Hayseed : RUBE
61
Belgian canal : YSER
63
For shame! : FIE

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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