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Weil
Weil

New York Times, Thursday, May 10, 1979

Author:
Weil
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.37, Missing: { B J K X Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 84, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 17.1
Weil has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,775
Across
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Like many a salad : TOSSED
7
Negligent : REMISS
13
Artist's quarters : ATELIER
15
Spanish court star : ORANTES
17
Kind of idol : MATINEE
18
Rome tourist site : LATERAN
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Grip's concern : PROP
20
Vital sign : PULSE
22
Gibbon : APE
23
Writer Rand : AYN
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Beard with an appropriate name : GOATEE
26
Wretched : VILE
27
Legal relinquishment of a right : WAIVER
28
Soviet region, for short : TATAR
29
Mean or worth follower : WHILE
30
Kind of triangle : SCALENE
32
Invent : CREATE
34
Portended : OMENED
35
The good doctors : HEALERS
37
Small birds : WRENS
38
More fitting : APTER
39
Exit : EGRESS
41
Memorable Cowardly Lion : LAHR
42
One of the small fry : SQUIRT
43
Not anti : FOR
46
High dudgeon : IRE
47
Spring or source : FOUNT
48
Kind of grouse or hen : SAGE
49
Color called animal rouge : CARMINE
51
Antagonistic : HOSTILE
54
The ___ City (Rome) : ETERNAL
55
Registered : ENTERED
56
Lemons once shipped from Mich. : EDSELS
57
Lunchroom : EATERY
Down
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___ Bay, N.F.L. team : TAMPA
2
Eared seal : OTARY
3
American saint : SETON
4
Space between wharves : SLIP
5
German article : EIN
6
Sandra or Ruby : DEE
7
Hair curlers : ROLLERS
8
Obliterate : ERASE
9
Starbuck, in "Moby Dick" : MATE
10
Suffix for hero or Joseph : INE
11
Restricts; hampers : STRAITENS
12
Flying boat : SEAPLANE
14
Do road work : REPAVE
16
Looked cynical : SNEERED
21
Salt Lake City player : UTE
24
Relative of a romeo : GAITER
25
Engine tender on a tanker : OILER
26
Roman emperor: 364–378 : VALENS
27
Hunter deplored by cetologists et al. : WHALER
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Least feral : TAMEST
29
Successfully endured exposure : WEATHERED
31
K.P. utensil : CORER
32
Church vessel : CHALICE
33
Peace treaty verb : REPARATE
36
Follow-ups : SEQUELS
37
Contort or distort : WRITHE
40
Bren or Sten : GUN
42
Of sound : SONAL
43
Laissez-___ : FAIRE
44
Romance is in his glance : OGLER
45
Frail : REEDY
47
Court levy : FINE
48
"No dele" : STET
50
Robinson or Miniver : MRS
52
Bill : ONE
53
Depot: Abbr. : STA

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

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