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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

New York Times, Thursday, February 5, 1976

10-Down : Arty trailblazers

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F }, Scrabble score: 313 (avg 1.66)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 48.9
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,672
Across
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Place for a lock : HASP
5
Platform : DAIS
9
Beanery coffee : JAVA
13
"The ___ Love" : ONEI
14
Expedition : HASTE
15
Microwave, for one : OVEN
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Family member : STEPMOTHER
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German philosopher : KANT
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Dramatis ___ : PERSONAE
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Proxies : AGENTS
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Neighbor of Ont. : QUE
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Leftward : APORT
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Secluded : SEQUESTERED
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Loquacity : GAB
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Together, in music : ADUE
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Go oystering : TONG
34
Marshy place : SWALE
36
V.O.A.'s outfit : USIA
37
Sing, in a way : YODEL
39
Heraldic bearing : ORLE
40
Ready-made ties : TECKS
42
Bonito : TUNA
43
River to the Baltic : ODER
44
Big game : ELK
45
Fibbers : TALETELLERS
48
Kind of strength : BRUTE
50
Green : RAW
51
Journalist : SCRIBE
53
Speculative : NOTIONAL
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Lowlife : HEEL
59
Introduce regularity : SYMMETRIZE
61
Spoken : ORAL
62
Youthful time : TEENS
63
Ending for cyclo : TRON
64
Aircraft add-ons : PODS
65
Rock: Prefix : SAXI
66
Wealthy one : HAVE
Down
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Med. facility : HOSP
2
___ bellum : ANTE
3
Prescient one : SEER
4
Insignificant one : PIPSQUEAK
5
Facts : DATA
6
Wimbledon champ : ASHE
7
Adherent: Suffix : ITE
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Poncho : SERAPE
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Part of the deck : JOKER
10
Arty trailblazers : AVANTGARDE
11
Airduct : VENT
12
Pismires : ANTS
14
Frankness : HONESTY
17
Grimace : MOUE
21
Aesir, e.g. : GODS
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Silvery : ARGENT
24
Recipe verb : SAUTE
25
Ford : EDSEL
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Bakery product : QUICKBREAD
27
Emulate a flutist : TOOTLE
28
Transfuse : ENDUE
30
Pis-___ (last resource) : ALLER
31
Tavern orders : BEERS
35
F. W. of store fame : WOOLWORTH
38
Ophelia's brother : LAERTES
41
___ a toe : STUB
46
Underground explosions : ATESTS
47
Café au ___ : LAIT
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Brooklets : RILLS
51
Mall feature : SHOP
52
Food fish : CERO
53
Neighbor of Colo. : NMEX
54
Prefix with scient or potent : OMNI
55
New Deal initials : NIRA
56
Eueopean sea : AZOV
57
Unaspirated : LENE
60
Vote for : YEA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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