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Mel Taub
Mel Taub

New York Times, Saturday, June 26, 1971

Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J X Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 24.0
Mel Taub has 44 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 10 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1971, The New York TimesNo. 7,987
Across
1
City district : WARD
5
Printer's stroke : SERIF
10
Easy mark : DUPE
14
Lily plant : ALOE
15
Menander's Muse : ERATO
16
Old enough : ENOW
17
___ Ha-shanah : ROSH
18
Forty-___ : NINER
19
Honshu city : KURE
20
Lincoln Center figure : MUSICIAN
22
Name in tennis : KRAMER
24
Paulo and others : SAOS
25
Old Greek coin : OBOL
26
Game played for kicks : SOCCER
29
Put Bradley in the line-up? : PLAYBILL
33
Extrinsic : ALIEN
34
Low pitch, for one : BALL
35
Latest: Prefix : NEO
36
Homers, e.g. : HITS
37
Hackneyed : BANAL
38
Japanese wrestling : SUMO
39
"___ got you under my skin" : IVE
40
Flock belles : EWES
41
Color: Prefix : CHROM
42
Social event at army post? : BASEBALL
45
Part of N. Y. City : QUEENS
46
Entre ___ : NOUS
47
Jefferson's V.P. : BURR
48
Target weapon : PISTOL
51
Game for Redskins and Cowboys : FOOTBALL
55
Allege : AVER
56
Dunderhead : IDIOT
58
Hazlitt's contemporary : ELIA
59
Poet Teasdale : SARA
60
British sister : NURSE
61
Thumb and others : TOMS
62
Easy job : SNAP
63
Exploits : GESTS
64
Tiff : SPAT
Down
1
Ready to pitch : WARM
2
Baseball brothers : ALOU
3
Betsy : ROSS
4
Bursts, as a plant pod : DEHISCES
5
Pro-football draft bait : SENIOR
6
Silkworms : ERIAS
7
___ of Kutch : RANN
8
Resident: Suffix : ITE
9
Certain pitch : FORKBALL
10
Washington's German colleague : DEKALB
11
Word on a dollar bill : UNUM
12
Think deeply : PORE
13
Pitcher : EWER
21
City on the Orne : CAEN
23
Yankee's White : ROY
25
Bulging jars : OLLAS
26
Master, in India : SAHIB
27
A. L. batting champ in 1964–5 : OLIVA
28
Refers to : CITES
29
TV group : PANEL
30
Habituate : INURE
31
Florida product : LEMON
32
Appears faintly : LOOMS
34
Weeps noisily : BAWLS
37
Possible word for sport of single girls? : BEAULING
38
Frozen desserts : SHERBETS
41
Flood of baseball : CURT
43
Snare : ENTRAP
44
Scary sound : BOO
45
States, as prices : QUOTES
47
Push up : BOOST
48
Namath specialty : PASS
49
Terrible tsar : IVAN
50
Antitoxins : SERA
51
Douglas and others : FIRS
52
Askew : ALOP
53
S. A. city : LIMA
54
Endure : LAST
57
Payable : DUE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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