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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Saturday, June 25, 1983

37-Down : Firedogs

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 24.7 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,282
Across
1
Mescal is one : CACTUS
7
"Oh, my," in Mainz : ACH
10
Immovable : FAST
14
Maltreat : ILLUSE
15
Scarf : BOA
16
"Deep calleth ___ deep ... ": Psalm 42:7 : UNTO
17
"___ Mater," well-known hymn : STABAT
18
Photographer's gear : ENLARGER
20
Swill : TOPE
21
Guides of a sort : ADVISORS
22
Mine vehicle : TRAM
25
Boat part : KEEL
26
A summer baby : LEO
27
___ Sunday : SHROVE
29
Remnants : ENDS
30
Chump : ASS
31
Condiments : SEASONERS
33
Uses up : EXPENDS
34
Plantations : ESTATES
41
Rhythm instruments : CASTANETS
43
Suffix with poet or hero : ICS
46
Ireland's ___ Islands : ARAN
48
Spirit away : ABDUCT
49
Crop : MAW
50
Goof, for Guidry : BALK
51
Petition : SUIT
52
" ... the forest ___": Longfellow : PRIMEVAL
54
City on the Mohawk : ROME
57
Fitting : APPOSITE
58
Expiator : ATONER
60
F.F.V. group : LEES
61
Frost's "The Road ___ Taken" : NOT
62
Altercations : RUNINS
63
Says further : ADDS
64
Forage plant : ERS
65
Grass type : FESCUE
Down
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Ancient Roman receptacle : CIST
2
___ sax : ALTO
3
Showy and cheap : CLAPTRAP
4
Mexican flower : TUBEROSE
5
NATO member : USA
6
Determined : SET
7
"Bring me ___ of wine": Aristophanes : ABEAKER
8
Makes more compact : CONDENSES
9
Shared equally : HALVED
10
Point Barrow apparel : FURS
11
Neighbor of Zambia : ANGOLA
12
Cordwood measures : STERES
13
Unfinished works of art : TORSOS
19
Troubles : AILS
23
Names of three English rivers : AVON
24
Patch : MEND
27
Ottawa-N.Y.C. dir. : SSE
28
Jinx : HEX
32
Kind of clause : ESCALATOR
35
PBS members : STAS
36
Proscribed : TABU
37
Firedogs : ANDIRONS
38
German : TEUTONIC
39
To Grecophiles, this is KTL : ETC
40
Fleet flier : SST
42
Short socks : ANKLETS
43
Simba's prey : IMPALA
44
Did some nagging : CARPED
45
Pinched : SWIPED
46
Burrows et al. : ABES
47
Hollow : RAVINE
53
Caribou's food : MOSS
55
Preprandial reading : MENU
56
Gaelic : ERSE
58
Line from "Annie" : ARF
59
Tiu's day: Abbr. : TUE

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

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