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Chet Currier
Chet Currier

New York Times, Friday, March 19, 1976

Author:
Chet Currier
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 46, Avg Word Len: 4.71, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 23.5
Chet Currier has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 6 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,715
Across
1
Sour : ACERB
6
Shed feathers : MOLT
10
Batting stats : RBIS
14
Louisiana sight : BAYOU
15
Love, to Catullus : AMOR
16
Sea bird : ERNE
17
Scotland Yard items : CLEWS
18
Data, for short : INFO
19
Force : DINT
20
Like some jokes : SIDESPLITTING
23
Highway: Abbr. : RTE
24
Speed : HIE
25
Landscape debris : EYESORES
30
Mythical gods' blood : ICHOR
34
___ Friday : GAL
35
Flower part : PETAL
37
Cattle of old : KINE
38
Common interjection : AHAH
40
Shakespeare's Katharina : SHREW
42
Obstacle : SNAG
43
Cooked : DONE
44
Juniper : SAVIN
46
Numbered cube : DIE
47
Ice-cream and baking : SODAS
49
Facial décor : SIDEBURN
51
Livingston, Seuss et al. : DRS
53
Southern power org. : TVA
54
Annoyance : PAININTHENECK
61
Stylish : CHIC
63
Metropolitan or disaster : AREA
64
Ship-mast gear : RADAR
65
Profanity : OATH
66
Sincere : REAL
67
Kansas town : ONAGA
68
Angler's aim : BITE
69
This, in Madrid : ESTE
70
Scorecard entries : NAMES
Down
1
Basics : ABCS
2
City of Colombia : CALI
3
Regarded : EYED
4
Boatmen : ROWERS
5
Inge play : BUSSTOP
6
Kind of man or order : MAIL
7
Prefix with present or bus : OMNI
8
Hit a high fly : LOFT
9
Marital pledge : TROTH
10
Relatives of hillbillies : REDNECKS
11
Jail afloat : BRIG
12
Travelers' rest : INN
13
Work with type : SET
21
French parents : PERES
22
After Jr. : III
25
Golly's relatives : EGADS
26
"Gulliver's Travels" figure : YAHOO
27
African antelope : ELAND
28
Numerical suffixes : ETHS
29
Poet Teasdale et al. : SARAS
31
Native of India : HINDU
32
Walking ___ (elated) : ONAIR
33
Bavarian river : REGEN
36
Son of Jacob : LEVI
39
Worry : HEADACHE
41
Shoe-buyer's concern : WIDTH
45
"___ Sunday" : NEVERON
48
Title used by 31 Down : SRI
50
Kind of split or boat : BANANA
52
Trap : SNARE
54
English statesman : PITT
55
Provokes : IRES
56
Uncluttered : NEAT
57
Narrative : TALE
58
Dutch cheese : EDAM
59
" ... nor iron bars a ___" : CAGE
60
Plateau of Yugoslavia : KRAS
61
Part of a golden ear : COB
62
"Bali ___" : HAI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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