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Sara V. Tuckerman
Sara V. Tuckerman

New York Times, Thursday, February 20, 1975

Author:
Sara V. Tuckerman
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 35.7
Sara V. Tuckerman has 40 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,322
Across
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Balkan native : SLAV
5
"House of Seven Gables" site : SALEM
10
Indistinctness : BLUR
14
Stood : ROSE
15
Yellowish brown : ALOMA
16
Gagarin : YURI
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Trifle : IOTA
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Pull a ___ : BONER
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Fluent : GLIB
20
Seats for certain maids : MILKINGSTOOLS
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Byway : LANE
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Fleming : IAN
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Threadlike : FILOSE
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Glittery : TINSELED
33
Olive genus : OLEA
34
Old cry of grief : OIMEE
35
Miss Arden : EVE
36
Some get-togethers : COFFEEKLATSCHES
40
Insect : ANT
41
Ship's-plank curves : SNIES
42
Frolic : LARK
43
Infants' outfits : LAYETTES
45
Newspaper section : SPORTS
47
Household god : LAR
48
Latin-lesson word : AMAT
49
Party fare : TEASANDWICHES
55
Kind of magazine : PULP
56
Perfume ingredient : NEROL
57
Cuzco native : INCA
59
"___ do is dream ... " : ALLI
60
Marsh bird : CRAKE
61
Blore of movies : ERIC
62
Honey drink : MEAD
63
Keen : EAGER
64
Peasant of India : RYOT
Down
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___ Lanka : SRI
2
Impend : LOOM
3
___ spumante : ASTI
4
Lunch meat : VEALLOAF
5
Ancient Italian : SABINE
6
"One ___" : ALONE
7
Huey : LONG
8
Scottish uncles : EMES
9
Strict disciplinarian : MARTINET
10
Past : BYGONE
11
Soothe : LULL
12
U.S. novelist : URIS
13
Kind of roast : RIB
21
Dutch cupboard : KAS
22
Stopover spots : OASES
25
___ point (center of interest) : FOCAL
26
Miss Massey : ILONA
27
Baseball's Gomez : LEFTY
28
Game pieces : TILES
29
Miss Hogg and others : IMAS
30
Composer Franz : LEHAR
31
Chris of tennis : EVERT
32
Lecterns : DESKS
34
Steinbeck character : OKIE
37
These: Sp. : ESTAS
38
Charm : ENTRANCE
39
Dealer in menswear : CLOTHIER
44
Snake of a venomous family : ELAPID
45
Snapshot poser, often : SMILER
46
Soft shoe : PAC
48
Roused : AWOKE
49
Bulrush : TULE
50
Miss Fitzgerald : ELLA
51
Tiber tributary : NERA
52
Kind of race : DRAG
53
Certain king, to cockneys : ENRY
54
I know: Lat. : SCIO
55
Card game : PAM
58
Play part : ACT

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

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