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Young
Young

New York Times, Monday, June 20, 1977

Author:
Young
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { B F Q Z }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 29.0
Young has 6 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,173
Across
1
Rural place : DALE
5
Region of France : ANJOU
10
One more time : ANEW
14
And wife: Lat. abbr. : ETUX
15
Night sights : NEONS
16
Lead or heavy : ROLE
17
Fellow countryman : COMPATRIOT
19
Herbert Hoover, e.g. : ROSE
20
Take advantage of : IMPOSEON
21
Did Tuesday's job : IRONED
23
Genus of shrubs : RHUS
24
Welcome sight at Stowe : SNOW
25
Part of a shoe : INSTEP
28
Sign at a crossing : STOP
29
Speaker O'Neill : TIP
32
Morning, in Paris : MATIN
33
Longshoreman : STEVEDORE
35
Home of a "Sweet Swan" : AVON
36
Fakes : SHAMS
37
Augments (with "out") : EKES
38
Racketeers : GANGSTERS
40
Exhausted : SPENT
41
English cathedral city : ELY
42
Safari : TREK
43
Benzenes : PHENES
44
Elegist or odist : POET
45
Feathered fisheater : LOON
46
Repudiate : DISOWN
49
Airborne descent : PARADROP
53
Into which went Gretel's witch : OVEN
54
Group on the rii of Venezia : GONDOLIERI
56
Observe : NOTE
57
Brings to bay : TREES
58
"Our ___," Gershwin musical : NELL
59
Geologists record five of these : ERAS
60
What a playwright counts : HOUSE
61
Happiness : GLEE
Down
1
Tenth part: Prefix : DECI
2
Physicist's topic : ATOM
3
Sugar cube : LUMP
4
Shipping abroad : EXPORTING
5
Put in a stake : ANTEUP
6
Peter and Wolfe : NEROS
7
Army recruiter's verb : JOIN
8
"Sail ___ Union ... " : ONO
9
Actor Peter and family : USTINOVS
10
Weapon in "Deliverance" : ARROW
11
Eight bells : NOON
12
In addition : ELSE
13
Devil's paintbrush, for one : WEED
18
Pale : ASHEN
22
Product from sisal : ROPE
24
Parts of corncobs : STEMS
25
P.R. man's creation : IMAGE
26
Word in U.S.N.R. : NAVAL
27
Hardhearted : STONY
28
Bleak : STARK
29
Outward sign : TOKEN
30
Role for Debbie Reynolds : IRENE
31
Nuisances : PESTS
33
Scandal ___ : SHEET
34
Contingent upon : DEPENDING
36
Fortitude : STRENGTH
39
Put away : STOW
40
Marine hazard : SHOAL
43
Full of holes : POROSE
44
Dixie dishes : PONES
45
Packs or dips : LADES
46
Finished : DONE
47
Composer Novello : IVOR
48
___ precedent : SETA
49
Parisian motorist's tire : PNEU
50
Bobbin : REEL
51
Heraldic border : ORLE
52
Nap : PILE
55
Sierra gold : ORO

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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