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Norton Rhoades
Norton Rhoades

New York Times, Friday, April 19, 1974

4-Down : Defends

Author:
Norton Rhoades
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { B J Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 21.9
Norton Rhoades has 24 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,015
Across
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Village : DORP
5
Last ___ : GASP
9
Bank-holiday money : SCRIP
14
Employer : USER
15
___ podrida : OLLA
16
Tropical American animal : COATI
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Regarding : ASTO
18
Rapier : FOIL
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Of a grain : OATEN
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Arguer's goal : LASTWORD
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Modern affliction : STRESS
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Slips : ERRS
24
Dahs' associates : DITS
25
Shore bird : AVOCET
28
Actor's jury : AUDIENCE
32
Famous saloon : LASTCHANCE
34
Long time : EON
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Search, as a suspect : FRISK
36
Creek : RIA
37
Behave irrationally : GOAPE
39
Caesar's "hail" : AVE
40
Famed mural : LASTSUPPER
42
Under-the-window routine : SERENADE
45
"___ It" (Porter song) : LETSDO
46
___ Verde : MESA
47
Thus: It. : COSI
48
Popular school period : RECESS
51
Departure-time words : LASTCALL
55
Awake : ALERT
56
Do a Monday job : WASH
57
Pelvic bones : ILIA
58
Stave : RANGE
59
French play part : ACTE
60
Lemon and orange : ADES
61
Bet : ANTED
62
Document : DEED
63
U. S. cartoonist : NAST
Down
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___ purpose (having two uses) : DUAL
2
Pelion's companion : OSSA
3
Soaks flax : RETS
4
Defends : PROTECTS
5
Look for adventure : GOFORTH
6
Then: Fr. : ALORS
7
Skidded : SLID
8
Buddy : PAL
9
Antonio of opera : SCOTTI
10
Unrefined : COARSE
11
Interest or first : RATE
12
Followers: Suffix : ITES
13
Wrestles to a win : PINS
21
Georgia Tech man, in song : WRECK
22
Aspect : SIDE
24
Coin for Portia : DUCAT
25
African grasses : ALFAS
26
Layer of silt : VARVE
27
Willow : OSIER
28
Flavor : ANISE
29
Low tides : NEAPS
30
Met the crisis : COPED
31
January, in Lima : ENERO
33
Plowed land : ARADA
37
Poet Edgar : GUEST
38
Man for lenses : OPTICIAN
40
Girl : LASS
41
Made watery progress : SLOSHED
43
Come out : EMERGE
44
Made a home : NESTED
47
Brahman, e.g. : CASTE
48
___ avis : RARA
49
Verve : ELAN
50
Not worth a ___ : CENT
51
Tatting : LACE
52
Alan or Robert : ALDA
53
___ low (hides out) : LIES
54
Shoe form : LAST
56
Roll of money : WAD

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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