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Chet Currier
Chet Currier

New York Times, Friday, December 19, 1975

Author:
Chet Currier
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { G Q Z }, Scrabble score: 297 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 27.5
Chet Currier has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 6 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,624
Across
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Kind of fund : SLUSH
6
Trojan War hero : AJAX
10
Grating sound : RASP
14
Park linked to Edison : MENLO
15
City in N.J. : LODI
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Others, to Ovid : ALIA
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Subject of King Lear's lament : ATHANKLESSCHILD
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Affirms : AVERS
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Actor Edward : ASNER
22
Where Cairo is: Abbr. : ILL
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Persistent one : DIEHARD
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Chemical ending : ENE
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Soft mineral : TALC
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Entertainer Allen : STEVE
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Superlative endings : ESTS
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Faint : SWOON
35
Underground worker : MINER
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Start of a possible question by 17 Across : WHATHAVEYOU
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Red as ___ : ABEET
42
Vehicle for Steele or Mencken : ESSAY
45
Glance over : SCAN
48
Mennonite people : AMISH
51
Continental prefix : EURO
52
Record-player part : ARM
53
Cut to pieces : SLICEUP
55
Radiation unit : REM
56
Under, poetically : NEATH
58
Like nippy air : CRISP
60
Rest of question : DONEFORMELATELY
66
Actor Alan : ALDA
67
Achievement : DEED
68
Vikings' descendants : NORSE
69
Boat problem : LEAK
70
Shower with love : DOTE
71
Kilns : OASTS
Down
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Wee, in Glasgow : SMA
2
Allow : LET
3
Desecrate : UNHALLOW
4
Croat, e.g. : SLAV
5
Sharpened : HONED
6
Ready : ALLSET
7
DiMaggio : JOE
8
Classifieds : ADS
9
Greek letters : XIS
10
Fan sounds : RAHS
11
Works on wheels : ALINES
12
Kind of partner : SILENT
13
Chaplains : PADRES
18
Malay dagger : KRIS
19
Lout : CAD
22
"___ a bird ... " : ITS
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John or Bonar : LAW
25
Of the blood : HEMATIC
26
Tel ___ : AVIV
27
Descartes : RENE
30
Broadway showman : COHAN
32
Jagged : EROSE
34
Apprehend : NAB
36
Needle part : EYE
38
River duck : TEAL
39
Prefix for sphere : HEMI
40
Ones seizing power : USURPERS
43
Metric measure : ARE
44
___ Kippur : YOM
45
Beach wear : SANDAL
46
Bayou patois : CREOLE
47
Actress Blake : AMANDA
49
Leave a group : SECEDE
50
Pitch : HURL
53
Radio-wave abbr. : SHF
54
Literary ___ (typewriter) : PIANO
57
Deck wood : TEAK
59
Greek portico : STOA
61
Kind of job : ODD
62
Popular auto of 1920's : REO
63
Convened : MET
64
Naval craft: Abbr. : LST
65
Widely-sought response : YES

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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