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Mike Leifer
Mike Leifer

New York Times, Saturday, October 23, 1976

Author:
Mike Leifer
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.08, Missing: { F J X Z }, Scrabble score: 288 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 83, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 16.1
Mike Leifer has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,933
Across
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Gardener's bane : CRABGRASS
10
Matrons : DAMES
15
Forms anew : RECREATES
16
Chris of the courts : EVERT
17
Personified : INCARNATE
18
___ Wences : SENOR
19
Brewing grain : MALT
20
Roman 151 : CLI
21
Diatribe : TIRADE
22
Ivy Leaguer : ELI
23
Haggard's "___" : SHE
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Public law: Abbr. : ORD
25
Mountain ___ : DEW
26
___-believe : MAKE
28
Used a lever : PRIED
30
Showing no chagrin : UNABASHED
33
Kind of active : RADIO
37
Lucifer : SATAN
38
"We ___ one" : ARE
39
Bitter : ACERB
40
Well rounded : OBESE
41
Exaggerates : STRETCHES
43
"The Good ___" : EARTH
45
Wharf : QUAY
46
Hat or banana : TOP
49
Bauble : TOY
50
Kind of steer or rap : BUM
51
Corgi, e.g. : DOG
54
Deemed : OPINED
56
Agreeable French word : OUI
57
Novelist Shirley Ann : GRAU
58
Asian land : NEPAL
59
Come to pass : EVENTUATE
61
Mountain ridge : ARETE
62
Reveres : VENERATES
63
Roman spirits : LARES
64
Obliteration : ERASEMENT
Down
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Police target : CRIME
2
Of the kidney : RENAL
3
Adapt : ACCLIMATE
4
Nasty child : BRAT
5
Ruhr native: Abbr. : GER
6
Western holdings : RANCHES
7
"___ of Two Cities" : ATALE
8
Bristle: Prefix : SETI
9
Compass reading : SSE
10
Something wanted : DESIDERATUM
11
Affirm : AVER
12
Greek nymph: Var. : MENAD
13
Impair : ERODE
14
Scatter : STREW
21
Numerical prefix : TRI
23
Finger Lake : SKANEATELES
24
Arrangement : ORDER
27
Lower : ABASE
28
___ Amboy : PERTH
29
Bangladesh capital : DACCA
30
Entertainment org. : USO
31
Arrest : NAB
32
Kind of pudding : HASTY
34
Lose moisture : DEHYDRATE
35
Wrath : IRE
36
Outmoded: Abbr. : OBS
42
Horses : EQUINES
44
Laver of tennis : ROD
46
Of sound : TONAL
47
It's usually grand : OPERA
48
Tom's father : PIPER
50
___ Vista : BUENA
52
Containing a grain : OATEN
53
Visitor : GUEST
55
Nickname for Hale : NATE
56
Above's companion : OVER
57
Pacific island of W.W. II : GUAM
59
Arden : EVE
60
Three, in Parma : TRE

Answer summary:
3 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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