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David Crosatto
David Crosatto

New York Times, Saturday, October 19, 1974

Author:
David Crosatto
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 288 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 27.5 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
David Crosatto has 9 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,198
Across
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Famed ballet-set designer : BAKST
6
Salver : TRAY
10
Toy-pistol ammo : CAPS
14
Mr. Heep : URIAH
15
Spanish shout : HOLA
16
State : UTAH
17
Door holder : HINGE
18
Boisterous play : ROMP
19
Grimace : MOUE
20
Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge : LAKEPOETS
22
Seaweed : DULSE
23
Mr. Marner : SILAS
24
Young hen : PULLET
25
Vestment : ALB
28
Kennedy : TED
29
Body of an organism : SOMA
30
___ Bay, Ore. : COOS
32
Renunciation : ABJURATION
37
Devilfish : MANTA
39
Kind of mail : AIR
40
Fabric : SERGE
41
Author of "Giant" : EDNAFERBER
44
Room in a casa : SALA
45
Mah-jongg piece : TILE
46
___ off (cheat) : FOB
48
Final : NET
49
Kind of grave : WATERY
52
Snake : COBRA
54
Corpulent : OBESE
55
Converted one : PROSELYTE
59
Rich soil : LOAM
60
Match : BOUT
61
"Robin ___" : ADAIR
62
Actress Eleonora : DUSE
63
River in Sussex : OUSE
64
Author Lagerlof : SELMA
65
Gun : STEN
66
Engendered : BRED
67
Aligns : TRUES
Down
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Style of furniture decoration : BUHL
2
Melody : ARIA
3
Rope flaw : KINK
4
Wise ones : SAGES
5
Frank Norris novel : THEPIT
6
Hackneyed : THREADBARE
7
Rhizomes, etc. : ROOTS
8
Charity : ALMS
9
Jabber : YAP
10
Piles up : CUMULATES
11
Bikini, for one : ATOLL
12
Caesura : PAUSE
13
Kind of music or lightning : SHEET
21
Olive genus : OLEA
22
French author : DUMAS
24
Through: Sp. : POR
25
Peak : ACME
26
Get a gun ready : LOAD
27
Beethoven's birthplace : BONN
29
Like a mountain goat : SUREFOOTED
31
Metternich et al. : STATESMEN
33
Sail : JIB
34
Tabriz's country : IRAN
35
Amorous stare : OGLE
36
Adroit : NEAT
38
Burning : AFIRE
42
Nevada city : ELY
43
Pilfers : ROBS
47
Face boldly : BREAST
49
Open tracts : WOLDS
50
Circa : ABOUT
51
Vex : TEASE
52
Small jar for oil, etc. : CRUSE
53
Shrub or tree : ALDER
55
Rain hard : POUR
56
Asian border river : YALU
57
"___ on my hands" : TIME
58
Epochs : ERAS
60
Shilling, in Soho : BOB

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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