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Sam Bellotto Jr.
New York Times, Saturday, March 26, 1983
Author:
Sam Bellotto Jr.
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 34.2
Sam Bellotto Jr. has 10 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 5 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 A | 2 B | 3 U | 4 G | 5 A | 6 L | 7 B | 8 S | 9 J | 10 F | 11 K |
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12 M | E | N | U | 13 S | 14 N | O | R | T | 15 E | 16 U | L | E |
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17 P | E | L | I | C | 18 A | N | T | O | R | S | 19 D | A | Y |
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20 S | P | I | N | E | S | 21 S | O | U | P | 22 C | O | N | S |
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23 S | T | E | N | C | 24 H | 25 D | C | I | I | |||||
26 A | T | H | O | 27 S | 28 K | E | V | 29 E | 30 L | 31 S |
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32 P | 33 O | 34 M | P | 35 A | M | O | 36 S | 37 D | I | V | O | T |
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38 A | L | I | I | 39 M | E | L | O | 40 N | 41 L | E | D | A |
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42 R | I | N | G | 43 S | 44 R | I | L | E | 45 W | R | E | N |
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46 R | O | D | E | O | 47 S | 48 D | O | R | 49 I | A | ||||
50 O | L | A | 51 F | 52 S | U | T | R | 53 A | 54 S | |||||
55 P | 56 R | 57 E | N | A | T | A | 58 L | 59 D | A | B | B | E | 60 D |
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61 I | A | L | 62 C | I | N | E | 63 M | A | L | L | A | R | D |
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64 X | Y | L | 65 E | R | N | S | T | 66 L | E | T | U | S |
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67 Y | E | S | 68 E | Y | E | S | 69 R | E | M | S |
© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,191
Across
1
Snug as ___ ... : ABUG
5
Vestments : ALBS
9
N.Y.C. airport : JFK
12
Diners' cartes : MENUS
14
Compass point, in Cancun : NORTE
16
Rubber tree : ULE
17
Web-footed choristers? : PELICANTORS
19
Pay or hey follower : DAY
20
Book backs : SPINES
21
Small portions : SOUPCONS
23
Mephitis : STENCH
25
Year in the reign of Gregory I : DCII
26
Comrade of d'Artagnan : ATHOS
28
Cudgels or cleats : KEVELS
32
Elgar subject : POMP
35
This precedes Obadiah : AMOS
37
Displaced turf on a course : DIVOT
38
Et ___ (plus, in a way) : ALII
39
Honeydew, e.g. : MELON
41
Mother of Castor and Pollux : LEDA
42
Places for kayos : RINGS
44
Aggravate : RILE
45
Songbird : WREN
46
Cowboy meets : RODEOS
48
Andrea ___ : DORIA
50
Tryggvesson : OLAF
52
Brahman precepts : SUTRAS
55
Prior to birth : PRENATAL
59
Used a powder puff : DABBED
61
Suffix with baron : IAL
62
Daffy Duck? : CINEMALLARD
64
Wood: Comb. form : XYL
65
Director Lubitsch : ERNST
66
"___ pray" : LETUS
67
Reply to Virginia : YES
68
Cyclone centers : EYES
69
Dream states : REMS
Down
1
A.C. amounts : AMPS
2
Horn signals : BEEPS
3
Not fired : UNLIT
4
Test-tube turbit? : GUINEAPIGEON
5
Actress Sothern : ANN
6
Draw ___ (decide) : LOTS
7
Mope : BROOD
8
Held a job action : STRUCK
9
Martial art : JUDO
10
Tart : FLAN
11
Ivories : KEYS
13
Get wind of : SCENT
15
Detected : ESPIED
18
He tutored Queen Elizabeth I : ASCHAM
22
Extinct Dixie redstart? : CIVILWARBLER
24
Slugger's quest : HOMER
27
Unanimous : SOLID
29
Word with green or glade : EVER
30
Mine mother : LODE
31
Ollie's pal : STAN
32
Samlet : PARR
33
Hodgepodge : OLIO
34
Matter's master : MIND
36
Goes it alone : SOLOS
40
Chilean Nobelist: 1971 : NERUDA
43
Relief : SOLACE
47
Trenchant wit : SATIRE
49
"The Thrill of ___," Doris Day film : ITALL
51
Marcel Pagnol comedy : FANNY
53
Let up : ABATE
54
Whey of milk : SERUM
55
Fairy : PIXY
56
Martha from Butte : RAYE
57
Lowell has three : ELLS
58
___-majesté : LESE
60
Drillers' degs. : DDSS
63
Rocky elevs. : MTS
Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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