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Gurner
Gurner

New York Times, Friday, March 31, 1978

Author:
Gurner
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 24.7
Gurner has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,457
Across
1
Maiden : LASS
5
"Do Not Go Gentle ___ That Good Night" : INTO
9
Sprit : MAST
13
Lively dance : GALOP
14
Singer Vikki : CARR
15
Hautboy : OBOE
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"Melodie d'___," 1957 song : AMOUR
17
Bug or peek ending : ABOO
18
Fire Island sight : DUNE
19
210 lines of poetry : FIFTEENSONNETS
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___ Brown, Chesterton detective : FATHER
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Teem : POUR
24
Caesar and Luckman : SIDS
27
Clothe : ENDUE
31
Rhyme scheme : ABAA
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Attractive : CUTE
37
"Twelfth Night" heroine : VIOLA
38
78 bagels, rolls, or doughnuts : SIXBAKERSDOZENS
41
Crocuses : IRIDS
42
Italian actress Virna : LISI
43
Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
44
Journalist Joseph or Stewart : ALSOP
45
Favorites : PETS
47
Mutton, e.g. : MEAT
50
Abusive speech : TIRADE
55
288 baseball players : THIRTYTWONINES
59
Horse color : ROAN
60
Soprano Gluck : ALMA
61
Eye sparkle : GLINT
62
Charles Lamb's pen name : ELIA
63
Problem in D.C. or at sea : LEAK
64
Maurois biography of George Sand : LELIA
65
Beef-witted : DULL
66
Relative of a gannet : ERNE
67
Peepers : EYES
Down
1
Vampire : LAMIA
2
In the air : ALOFT
3
Bridge position : SOUTH
4
Lively frolics : SPREES
5
"Yes, ___," Davis autobiography : ICAN
6
Catches : NABS
7
Scoutmaster's charges : TROOP
8
University town in Maine : ORONO
9
Remodel : MODERNIZE
10
Have contiguous borders : ABUT
11
"___ and Lovers" : SONS
12
Golfer's need : TEE
13
Hook for landing large fish : GAFF
20
City in Oklahoma : ERICK
21
New, in Navarra : NUEVO
25
Tilt for two : DUEL
26
Las Vegas area : STRIP
28
Activist : DOER
29
Arm bone : ULNA
30
An opponent of 3 Down : EAST
31
Part of the Eastern Hemisphere : ASIA
32
Do a logrolling stunt : BIRL
33
Indian deer : AXIS
34
Ventral : ABDOMINAL
36
To be, to Brutus : ESSE
39
Unit of value in Ankara : ASPER
40
The same : DITTO
46
Base hit : SINGLE
48
"___ of Two Cities" : ATALE
49
President before Polk : TYLER
51
The Hoosier Poet : RILEY
52
Old-womanish : ANILE
53
Patron saint of France : DENIS
54
"Cómo ___ Vd.?" : ESTA
55
Resin used in perfumes : TOLU
56
Call a cab : HAIL
57
Government agent : TMAN
58
Ship's trail : WAKE
59
Blushing : RED

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

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