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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

New York Times, Saturday, January 26, 1980

24-Down : Rigid insistence on nicety

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { F K Q X }, Scrabble score: 308 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,036
Across
1
Droplet : BEAD
5
Port of Spain : CADIZ
10
Top-notchers : ACES
14
Too : ALSO
15
Off : ASIDE
16
Patsy : GOAT
17
"March King" : JOHNPHILIPSOUSA
20
Vague quantity : ANY
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San'a money : RIAL
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Have-not : PAUPER
23
Baneful thing : WOE
24
Trapper's item : PELT
25
Comic-opera composer : ARTHURSSULLIVAN
33
Unclothed : BARED
34
Radioactivity unit : CURIE
35
Nigerian people : IBO
36
___ impasse : ATAN
37
Engraving tool : BURIN
38
Splotch : BLOB
39
Part of R.S.V.P. : SIL
40
Certain containers : TUBES
41
Work out : SOLVE
42
"Rockin' Chair" composer-lyricist : HOAGYCARMICHAEL
45
G.I. addresses : APOS
46
Big ___ : SUR
47
Stoker's prop : SHOVEL
50
Afrikaans : TAAL
52
SHAEF sector : ETO
55
"The Music Man" composer : MEREDITHWILLSON
58
U.S.S.R. river : URAL
59
___ Hills (HUD head for G.R.F.) : CARLA
60
Can cope with : UPTO
61
Colloids : GELS
62
Flounder through water : SLOSH
63
Henna user : DYER
Down
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___ California : BAJA
2
N.C. college : ELON
3
Pallid : ASHY
4
Quiet flower : DON
5
Pages for binding : CAHIER
6
Where the Ob flows : ASIA
7
Deli pickle : DILL
8
Mar. 15, in Italia : IDI
9
Airship : ZEPPELIN
10
Grizzled fur color : AGOUTI
11
Achievement : COUP
12
Comfort : EASE
13
Be featured : STAR
18
Exultant : PROUD
19
Château unit : SALLE
23
"___ You're Smiling ... ," 1928 song : WHEN
24
Rigid insistence on nicety : PURISM
25
Discomfit : ABASH
26
Two-to-one, e.g. : RATIO
27
Refrain syllables : TRALA
28
Diving apparatuses : SCUBAS
29
More reliable : SURER
30
Rural estate : VILLA
31
Superior : ABOVE
32
Dynamite man : NOBEL
37
Eclogues : BUCOLICS
38
Physics Nobelist: 1922 : BOHR
40
Like many manuscripts : TYPED
41
Certain oar : SCULL
43
Judges' rappers : GAVELS
44
Book of the Bible : ISAIAH
47
Complacent : SMUG
48
Now's partner : HERE
49
Nuncupative : ORAL
50
"Comin' ___ the Rye" : THRO
51
Cobbling tools : AWLS
52
Make out : ESPY
53
Kind of bag : TOTE
54
___ about : ONOR
56
___ qual (just as they come) : TAL
57
Legendary English king : LUD

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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