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Samuel K. Fliegner
Samuel K. Fliegner

New York Times, Monday, April 4, 1977

49-Across : Cutting tooth

Author:
Samuel K. Fliegner
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { J K X Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Samuel K. Fliegner has 36 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,096
Across
1
Boohoo : BAWL
5
Certain trailers, for short : SEMIS
10
Eject; emit : SPEW
14
Jumble : OLIO
15
Dionne girl : QUINT
16
Arizona city : YUMA
17
"Don't be silly!" : ACTYOURAGE
19
Hubbub : STIR
20
Romberg-Gershwin work : ROSALIE
21
Put back : RESTORE
23
Guided : LED
24
Snitch : TELLON
25
Good will : AMITY
28
___-relief : BAS
29
Gladden : ELATE
32
Very thin : BONY
33
Carried the ball : RAN
34
Eye or can follower : OPENER
35
Uffizi display : ART
36
Does a charade : ACTSOUT
38
Memorabilia : ANA
39
Vast arid tract : SAHARA
41
D.C. collection agcy. : IRS
42
Bagpiper, for one : SCOT
43
Resin : ELEMI
44
Assembled : MET
45
Milan subway : METRO
46
Lets up : ABATES
48
"6 Rms ___ Vu" (B'way play) : RIV
49
Cutting tooth : INCISOR
51
Football guard or tackle : LINEMAN
55
Chomp : BITE
56
Beau geste of a sort : ACTOFGRACE
58
Sacred figure : ICON
59
Pyongyang counterpart : SEOUL
60
Precinct : AREA
61
Handy : DEFT
62
Metaphor, e.g. : TROPE
63
For fear that : LEST
Down
1
Wild hog : BOAR
2
Tropical dog : ALCO
3
Brain power : WITS
4
Allegiance : LOYALTY
5
Bait for tuna : SQUID
6
Stream at Chartres : EURE
7
Farrow : MIA
8
Corot contemporary : INGRES
9
Kind of wool : STEEL
10
Heartbeat action : SYSTOLE
11
Feign : PUTONANACT
12
Qatar potentate : EMIR
13
Pottery : WARE
18
Composer Speaks : OLEY
22
"Washington ___ here" : SLEPT
24
Silverweeds : TANSIES
25
Lower in status : ABASE
26
Aesopian ending : MORAL
27
Red-handed : INTHEACTOF
28
Slugger's weapon : BAT
30
Drift : TENOR
31
One of the Muses : ERATO
33
N.Y.C. building : RCA
34
Full of: Suffix : OUS
36
Songs for the Met set : ARIAS
37
Morsel for Fido : ORT
40
Surrounding : AMBIENT
42
Divers : SEVERAL
44
"Laura" lyricist : MERCER
45
Vase, dynasty or tree : MING
47
Glass-raiser : TOAST
48
G.I. issue : RIFLE
49
In the same place : IBID
50
French resort : NICE
51
Half mask : LOUP
52
Stable belle : MARE
53
"Easy ___," old radio favorite : ACES
54
Far from dowdy : NEAT
57
As well : TOO

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

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