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Peter Swift
New York Times, Tuesday, March 15, 1988
Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 49.1
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 T | 2 H | 3 A | 4 N | 5 T | 6 A | 7 C | 8 H | 9 E | 10 H | 11 O | 12 R | 13 A |
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14 I | O | N | I | A | 15 R | A | I | D | 16 A | L | A | D |
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17 P | U | T | T | I | 18 N | O | N | T | H | 19 E | R | I | T | Z |
20 R | E | A | L | I | S | T | S | 21 L | E | V | E | E |
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22 S | P | E | W | 23 C | A | M | E | L | S |
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24 G | 25 O | 26 T | 27 U | P | 28 E | 29 D | E | N | S | |||||
30 I | R | A | N | I | 31 T | B | A | R | 32 K | 33 I | 34 M |
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35 B | E | G | I | N | 36 T | H | E | B | E | 37 G | 38 U | I | N | E |
39 E | L | S | 40 R | E | F | S | 41 I | S | L | A | M |
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42 S | 43 P | E | A | R | 44 D | E | N | S | E |
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45 E | 46 L | 47 A | T | E | S | 48 I | 49 R | 50 E | D | |||||
51 S | O | N | A | R | 52 M | E | A | T | I | 53 E | 54 S | 55 T | ||
56 S | I | N | G | I | 57 N | I | N | T | H | E | R | A | I | 58 N |
59 E | R | I | E | 60 O | L | D | E | 61 S | M | I | L | E |
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62 N | E | E | D | 63 B | O | S | S | 64 T | A | L | L | Y |
© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,007
Across
1
U.N.'s U ___ : THANT
6
Suffer : ACHE
10
Rumanian dance : HORA
14
Part of ancient Greece : IONIA
15
Foray : RAID
16
"When I was ___ ... " : ALAD
17
Irving Berlin song: 1929 : PUTTINONTHERITZ
20
Pragmatic ones : REALISTS
21
River quay : LEVEE
22
Shoot out : SPEW
23
Saharan sights : CAMELS
24
Arose : GOTUP
28
Anthony and Clarissa : EDENS
30
Shiraz native : IRANI
31
Skier's lift : TBAR
32
Hunter or Stanley : KIM
35
Cole Porter song: 1935 : BEGINTHEBEGUINE
39
Quintet in "La, La, Lucille" : ELS
40
N.F.L. employees : REFS
41
Imam's faith : ISLAM
42
Asparagus stalk : SPEAR
44
Compact : DENSE
45
Delights : ELATES
48
Teed off : IRED
51
The British call this asdic : SONAR
52
Most substantial : MEATIEST
56
Freed-Brown song: 1929 : SINGININTHERAIN
59
Pa. city : ERIE
60
Word with shoppe : OLDE
61
Beam : SMILE
62
Desideratum : NEED
63
Tweed was one : BOSS
64
Keep score : TALLY
Down
1
Waiter's expectation : TIP
2
Word with glass or hand : HOUR
3
Kick in, in poker : ANTE
4
Naldi of silents : NITA
5
Airplane's swift descent : TAILSPIN
6
Originated : AROSE
7
James-Swift song: 1929 : CANTWEBEFRIENDS
8
Most of Mercer's songs : HITS
9
Old English letter : EDH
10
Seraglios : HAREMS
11
Shade of green : OLIVE
12
Honey badger : RATEL
13
Woodworkers' tools : ADZES
18
Tuck's companion : NIP
19
Gusto : ELAN
23
Part of a parrot's beak : CERE
24
Scoff : GIBE
25
City on the Oka : OREL
26
Aglets : TAGS
27
Prefix with form or sex : UNI
29
Pecks at : DABS
31
"Take ___ Train" : THEA
32
Ceramist's need : KILN
33
Actresses Claire and Balin : INAS
34
Same, in Somme : MEME
36
___ bien : TRES
37
Most frivolous : GIDDIEST
38
Take advantage of : USE
42
Produced for public viewing : STAGED
43
Lovely woman : PERI
45
City near Düsseldorf : ESSEN
46
France's longest river : LOIRE
47
Sharpshooter Oakley : ANNIE
49
Upbraids : RATES
50
Biblical verb ending : ETH
52
Venus de ___ : MILO
53
Writer Bombeck : ERMA
54
Lateen or mizzen : SAIL
55
Money compartment : TILL
57
Head: Slang : NOB
58
French marshal under Napoleon : NEY
Answer summary:
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