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Sara V. Tuckerman
Sara V. Tuckerman

New York Times, Wednesday, October 19, 1977

Author:
Sara V. Tuckerman
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { F J Q X Y }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 24.7
Sara V. Tuckerman has 40 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,294
Across
1
Audacious : BOLD
5
Ironically extravagant : CAMP
9
Cutting tool : ADZE
13
Shipworm or boll weevil : BORER
14
Plant with fleshy leaves : ALOE
15
Bird with a weird cry : LOON
16
Capital of Guam : AGANA
17
Loch's relative : TARN
18
Set right : MEND
19
Useless search : WILDGOOSECHASE
22
___ Antilles : LESSER
23
Spare : LEAN
24
Old oath : EGAD
27
Inhalant : VAPOR
31
Salmagundi : OLIO
35
Comstock ingress : ADIT
37
Yellow pigment : OCHRE
38
Houseleeks : HENSANDCHICKENS
41
Prime minister who resigned after Cornwallis's surrender : NORTH
42
O'Casey or O'Kelly : SEAN
43
Sultanate of Babe Ruth : SWAT
44
Burdens: Lat. : ONERA
45
Main veins of leaves : RIBS
47
Pay up : ANTE
50
Novelist Welty : EUDORA
55
Play ___ with (squander) : DUCKSANDDRAKES
59
Rajah's spouse : RANI
60
Parisian's "Help!" : AMOI
61
Rub out : ERASE
62
Track figures : ODDS
63
Small recess : NOOK
64
Dark brown shade : SEPIA
65
TV studio device : BOOM
66
Poet Sexton : ANNE
67
One of triplets : TRIN
Down
1
Apparition : BOGIE
2
Certain tests : ORALS
3
Imparts : LENDS
4
Sugarcoated nut : DRAGEE
5
Roman consul : CATO
6
Word of regret : ALAS
7
Mushroom : MOREL
8
The "d" in l.s.d. : PENCE
9
Franklin's annual compilations : ALMANACKS
10
Suffices : DOES
11
Kind of defense, in sports : ZONE
12
Tackle's neighbor : END
13
Bellow : BAWL
20
Church fixture : ORGAN
21
"Cry '___!' and let slip the dogs of war": Shak. : HAVOC
25
Increases : ADDS
26
Las Vegas patron : DICER
28
Hot-weather word : PHEW
29
Trieste wine measure : ORNA
30
Musical sign : REST
31
"Decidedly not!" : OHNO
32
Biographer Edel : LEON
33
Dictator's phrase : INRE
34
Fate of one sent to Coventry : OSTRACISM
36
Bangkok man : THAI
39
" ... and ___ of hair": Kipling : AHANK
40
"___ We Cry," book by Ilka Chase : INBED
46
Most certain : SUREST
48
Ethiopian Lake, source of the Blue Nile : TSANA
49
De Valera : EAMON
51
Venturesome one : DARER
52
Giraffelike animal : OKAPI
53
Violinist's need : RESIN
54
In Neptune's realm : ASEA
55
Pedestal part : DADO
56
Loosen : UNDO
57
When both hands are up : NOON
58
Flood fighter's barrier : DIKE
59
What footpads do : ROB

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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