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Whitworth
Whitworth

New York Times, Thursday, February 15, 1979

Author:
Whitworth
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F J V W Y }, Scrabble score: 288 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 23.7
Whitworth has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,691
Across
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Grate : RASP
5
Greenhouse plant : CALLA
10
Famed N.Y.C. street : MOTT
14
Ending meaning "little one" : ELLA
15
Grotto nymph : OREAD
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Reverberate : ECHO
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Place to give a rap : DOOR
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"___ yon crimson tree": Bryant : NEATH
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Cauterize : SEAR
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Leisters : SPEARS
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Dish sometimes served under glass : PHEASANT
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Rod Carew's weapon : BAT
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Kin of minks : ERMINES
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Ravage : SPOLIATE
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Long, indefinite period : EON
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Aster or peony : PERENNIAL
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Postponed going to bed : SATUP
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"Like Niobe, ___ tears": Hamlet : ALL
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Playing card for a seer : TAROT
41
Collection : ANA
42
Man has 32 : TEETH
45
College official : REGISTRAR
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Be repentant : RUE
50
Showing good manners and taste : DECOROUS
51
Gives out homework : ASSIGNS
55
Nepalese native : KHA
56
Will property : BEQUEATH
58
Fall forward : TOPPLE
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Astringent : ALUM
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Formula for beliefs : CREDO
65
Ardor : ELAN
66
Rebuff : SLAP
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Poisonous : TOXIC
68
Cipher : ZERO
69
Estonian : ESTH
70
Paddle : SPANK
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Engineer for whom a St. Louis bridge was named : EADS
Down
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Morgan, Foster et al. : REDS
2
Like Pisa's tower : ALOP
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Shrub with a sour fruit : SLOE
4
Short allegorical tale : PARABLE
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Not changing : CONSTANT
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"Lafayette, we ___ here" : ARE
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Caper : LEAP
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Shaping tool : LATHE
9
Stick : ADHERE
10
Scene of Nazis' last stand in Sicily : MESSINA
11
Great quantity : OCEAN
12
Man in the van of a clan : THANE
13
Civil wrongs : TORTS
21
Play based on a Maugham story : RAIN
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Shepherd prophet : AMOS
26
Honeymoon spoiler : SPAT
27
Former Cosmo : PELE
28
Shield border : ORLE
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Crown: Poetic : TIAR
30
Auriculate : EARED
33
Theater section : LOGE
35
Polynesian staple : TARO
36
Tropical sloth : UNAU
37
So-so scores for Gary Player : PARS
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Music to a horologist's ears : TICKTOCK
43
Earn a laurel wreath : TRIUMPH
44
Like the Colosseum : HUGE
46
Where Karl Marx once lived : SOHO
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Spot for a certain artist : TRAPEZE
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Legislates : ENACTS
51
Humble : ABASE
52
Peddles : SELLS
53
Crouch : SQUAT
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Sharpen a razor : STROP
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Six: Comb. form : HEXA
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Entreaty : PLEA
60
Fat : LARD
61
Seth's son : ENOS
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Uproar : DIN

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

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