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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

New York Times, Thursday, December 22, 1977

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.36, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 311 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 12, XRef: 0, Spans: 5, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 101.1
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,358
Across
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Where bachelors become benedicts : ALTAR
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"___ corny as Kansas ... " : IMAS
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Refluxes : EBBS
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Harbor craft : BARGE
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Whence poi comes : TARO
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Kind of trooper : PARA
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"Hair" or "Grease" : BROADWAYMUSICAL
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Sweet potato : YAM
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Farm feature : SILO
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Prolix : TALKY
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Pixilated : BATTY
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Gog and ___ : MAGOG
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Appetite stimulants : AROMAS
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H.S.T. or D.D.E. : MONOGRAM
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Purport : TENOR
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Inlet : COVE
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Magnetite, e.g. : ORE
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Pro hockey team : THESTLOUISBLUES
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Chance : HAP
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Bulwer-Lytton heroine : IONE
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___ seed (lose vigor) : RUNTO
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Like some snapshots : ENLARGED
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Famed pond : WALDEN
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Get ___ of (hear): Slang : ALOAD
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Caulking material : OAKUM
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Rebel against Queen Mary: 1553–54 : WYATT
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Ernie Kovac's widow : EDIE
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___ tree (in trouble) : UPA
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1965 Oscar-winning movie : THESOUNDOFMUSIC
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Employment : WORK
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Announce loudly : ROAR
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Ukase : EDICT
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Greek peak : OSSA
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Stately trees : ELMS
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Straits : NECKS
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"Dear ___" : ABBY
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Zhivago's love : LARA
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Seventy-six musicians : TROMBONEPLAYERS
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Moslem potentate : AGA
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Songbird : REDSTART
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Whence Chianti comes : ITALY
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Famed clinic : MAYO
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"Thou hast a mighty ___": Psalm 89 : ARM
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Cassocks : SOUTANES
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Concluding section : EPILOG
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Movie ingredient : BACKGROUNDMUSIC
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Rude sound : BRAY
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Mineo : SAL
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Faculties : WITS
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Kind of palm : SAGO
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Hebrew prophet : AMOS
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Lumet opus : MOVIE
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"The year's ___ spring": Browning : ATTHE
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Popular actress in the Gay Nineties : REHAN
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Tumulus : MOUND
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Rugged crest : ARETE
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Unstable nuclear particle : MESON
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Sounded dovish : COOED
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Bond : LIGATURE
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Railroad workers : BRAKEMEN
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Humdinger : LULU
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Where the Tanana flows : ALASKA
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Newspaper section, for short : ROTO
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Lost sheep : WAIF
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Bouquets : ODORS
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"___ Who" : WHOS
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Dutch export : EDAM
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Use a plectrum : PICK
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Stein's "Four Saints in Three ___" : ACTS
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Dyadic group : TWO
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Cambodia's Lon ___ : NOL
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Ulan ___, city in Russia : UDE

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

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