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DeWitt Anderson
DeWitt Anderson

New York Times, Wednesday, March 9, 1977

Author:
DeWitt Anderson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { Q W X }, Scrabble score: 307 (avg 1.66)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 19.9
DeWitt Anderson has 17 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,070
Across
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Burma's neighbor : LAOS
5
Seraglio : HAREM
10
Kind of tire or foot : FLAT
14
Singer Paul : ANKA
15
Certain Arabian : OMANI
16
Exude : OOZE
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Comic sketch : SKIT
18
Amphibians : TOADS
19
Pahlavi's land : IRAN
20
Andersen opus : THEUGLYDUCKLING
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Heyerdahl boat : RAI
24
Is sorrowful : RUES
25
Horizontal molding : CORNICE
29
Poetic time : EEN
30
Held court : SAT
33
Thine: Fr. : ATOI
34
Krazy ___ : KAT
36
Savalas : TELLY
38
Coffee seed : BEAN
39
Zeno follower : STOIC
42
Stir : JAIL
43
City on the Rhone : ARLES
45
Alphabetic trio : MNO
46
___ homo : ECCE
47
Tel Aviv airport : LOD
48
Exclamations : AHS
51
Sly laugh : SNICKER
53
Kind of school : PREP
54
Examine expertly : VET
55
Burdick-Lederer opus : THEUGLYAMERICAN
63
Cornucopia : HORN
64
Sam of N.C. : ERVIN
65
Bacchanalia : ORGY
66
Literary event : EPIC
67
Clamor : NOISE
68
Zero : NONE
69
Great Lake State: Abbr. : MICH
70
Dunces : ASSES
71
Neck of land : SPIT
Down
1
Wear well : LAST
2
Egyptian cross : ANKH
3
Thirties' migrant : OKIE
4
Gloomy or sullen : SATURNINE
5
Benny Goodman improvisations : HOTLICKS
6
Port in S.E. China : AMOY
7
Electric catfish : RAAD
8
Tolerate : ENDURE
9
Slip : MISCUE
10
Outwits : FOILS
11
Nocturnal mammal : LORI
12
Moslem call to prayer : AZAN
13
Burmese measure : TENG
21
Merry, in Metz : GAI
22
Ohio college town : KENT
25
Conspiracy : CABAL
26
Alamogordo's county : OTERO
27
Amundsen : ROALD
28
Dine : EAT
30
Loose : SLACK
31
"Tiny ___" : ALICE
32
Wat or John : TYLER
35
Fun-loving Rover Boy : TOM
37
Ousters : EJECTIONS
40
Kind of policy: Abbr. : INS
41
Assembles : CONVENES
44
U.S. illustrator : SARG
49
Western capital : HELENA
50
Film-executive Skouras : SPYROS
52
Comparative suffix : IER
53
Vigor : PUNCH
55
Oates book : THEM
56
Snake-dance specialist : HOPI
57
Hoffer : ERIC
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Rara ___ : AVIS
59
___ en scène : MISE
60
Harvest : CROP
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Lambs, to Lucullus : AGNI
62
U.N. veto : NYET

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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