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William Lutwiniak
New York Times, Saturday, May 6, 1978
Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.56, Missing: { B J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 60.4
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 C | 2 H | 3 E | 4 A | 5 T | 6 C | 7 L | 8 A | 9 S | 10 S | |||||
11 T | H | E | U | S | A | 12 H | A | V | A | N | 13 A | |||
14 T | H | E | P | R | I | M | 15 R | O | S | E | P | A | T | 16 H |
17 O | R | A | T | E | 18 P | E | R | E | S | 19 R | O | E |
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20 P | A | P | A | 21 L | E | P | E | R | 22 M | I | N | X |
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23 I | C | E | 24 F | O | R | U | S | 25 V | A | N | C | E |
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26 C | E | N | 27 S | U | R | E | D | 28 D | I | G | G | E | R |
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29 P | E | R | D | I | 30 T | I | O | N | ||||||
31 A | 32 W | 33 H | I | L | E | 34 A | R | C | L | I | 35 G | 36 H | 37 T |
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38 T | R | O | T | S | 39 S | T | I | E | S | 40 R | O | W |
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41 L | I | M | E | 42 N | A | I | A | D | 43 R | I | L | E |
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44 A | G | E | 45 S | A | T | O | N | 46 M | I | L | L | E |
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47 S | H | R | 48 I | N | K | I | N | G | 49 V | I | O | L | E | T |
50 T | U | R | E | E | N | 51 L | A | N | D | E | R | |||
52 N | E | E | D | Y | 53 E | N | D | E | D |
© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,493
Across
1
Gull : CHEAT
6
Yearbook group : CLASS
11
Les États-Unis : THEUSA
12
Seaport 90 miles SSW of Key West : HAVANA
14
Road to 29 Across : THEPRIMROSEPATH
17
Grandiloquize : ORATE
18
La Chaise et al. : PERES
19
Crustacean's spawn : ROE
20
Actor Waite in "The Waltons" : PAPA
21
Outcast : LEPER
22
Pert girl : MINX
23
Berg's makeup : ICE
24
"It is ___ the living ... " : FORUS
25
Sleuth Philo : VANCE
26
Found fault : CENSURED
28
Aussie of W.W. I : DIGGER
29
Hell or ruin : PERDITION
31
For a time : AWHILE
34
Street lamp : ARCLIGHT
38
Yonkers events : TROTS
39
Eyelid problems : STIES
40
To-do : ROW
41
Cuba libre juice : LIME
42
Young mayfly : NAIAD
43
Get one's goat : RILE
44
Years : AGE
45
Squelched : SATON
46
What the Romans' M stands for : MILLE
47
Timid one : SHRINKINGVIOLET
50
Soup-server : TUREEN
51
Lunar ___ : LANDER
52
Undersupplied : NEEDY
53
Over : ENDED
Down
1
Devaluate : CHEAPEN
2
Numerical prefix : HEPTA
3
Seine feeder : EURE
4
"Do ___ say ... " : ASI
5
Meddled : TAMPERED
6
Routine housework : CHORES
7
Engineer's beam : LASER
8
Rarae ___ : AVES
9
Vital fluid : SAP
10
Using a springe : SNARING
11
Balkan region : THRACE
13
Pronto : ATONCE
14
Exposition heading : TOPIC
15
Refusal of approval : REPUDIATION
16
Spell caster : HEXER
21
Filmdom heavy of yore : LORRE
22
Great: Prefix : MAGNI
24
Provides go-power : FUELS
25
Stringed instruments : VIOLS
27
Cattiness : SPITE
28
"Galloped the dominoes" : DICED
30
Geometric figure : TRIANGLE
31
Strong man : ATLAS
32
Name in aviation or architecture : WRIGHT
33
Base-clearer : HOMERUN
35
Questioned intensively : GRILLED
36
Gripe : HOLLER
37
Aviary sound : TWEET
39
Smooth and lustrous : SATINY
42
Unprotected : NAKED
43
___ Oro, Africa : RIODE
45
Snick and ___ : SNEE
46
Matter master : MIND
48
Infuriation : IRE
49
Forefront : VAN
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.
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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.