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Richard N. Platt, Jr.
Richard N. Platt, Jr.

New York Times, Wednesday, October 22, 1980

5-Down : Kind of test

Author:
Richard N. Platt, Jr.
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 46, Avg Word Len: 4.59, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 259 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 57, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Richard N. Platt, Jr. has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,306
Across
1
Rotating machine parts : CAMS
5
Physician's org. : AMA
8
Prefix for body or tank : ANTI
12
African lilies : ALOES
14
Male swan : COB
15
Makes tracks : FLEES
16
Green item : BERET
17
Highest mountain in Crete : IDA
18
False ___ : ALARM
19
Ike and Monty : COMRADESINARMS
22
Maglie or Mineo : SAL
23
Siberian river : LENA
24
Fool : ASS
27
Gruntling : PIG
29
Ready for the pitch : ATBAT
33
Boundary : METE
35
Perfume bottle : VIAL
38
Type of Greek architecture : IONIC
40
Bonnie and Clyde : PARTNERSINCRIME
43
Office worker, for short : STENO
44
Van Gogh's brother : THEO
45
Surrounded by : AMID
46
Footwear for W. C. Fields : SPATS
48
Dallas univ. : SMU
50
U. S. humorist: 1866-1944 : ADE
51
Pupil's neighbor : IRIS
54
Unit of energy : ERG
56
Tom and Huck : BOONCOMPANIONS
63
Pool owner's bane : ALGAE
64
Issue weapons : ARM
65
Zodiac sign : ARIES
67
Brown seaweeds : KELPS
68
Actress Zetterling : MAI
69
"___, Dolly!" : HELLO
70
Employs : USES
71
Prefix meaning "along with" : SYN
72
Gwyn or Quickly : NELL
Down
1
Calloway : CAB
2
Waugh or Guinness : ALEC
3
Subject of Katz's "Days of Wrath" : MORO
4
Appears : SEEMS
5
Kind of test : ACID
6
Cover girl : MODEL
7
Lower in esteem : ABASE
8
___ breve, in music : ALLA
9
Approach : NEAR
10
Two years in the House : TERM
11
Distinctive doctrines : ISMS
13
Kind of hanger : STRAP
15
Enthusiast : FANATIC
20
Brisk : ALIVE
21
Wycherley's "Love ___ Wood" : INA
24
Elec. measurements : AMPS
25
What parties vie for : SEATS
26
___ throat : STREP
28
Encircled : GIRT
30
Dry, cold wind : BORA
31
Inner self : ANIMA
32
Mousy : TIMID
34
Sicilian volcano : ETNA
36
Hardwood : ASH
37
Epitaph verb : LIES
39
Grant : CEDE
41
Bulletin-board items : NOTICES
42
Name, to Cicero : NOMEN
47
Sign outside a hit : SRO
49
Heep : URIAH
52
Moslem rulers : IMAMS
53
"Let us ___," firemen's slogan : SPRAY
55
Bridge expert : GOREN
56
U.S.S.R. oil city : BAKU
57
Corrida cries : OLES
58
Amorous glance : OGLE
59
Fabric surfaces : NAPS
60
Refugee from Uganda : AMIN
61
Blue or White : NILE
62
This may be hard or soft : SELL
66
One hundred centavos, in Peru : SOL

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle.

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