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Allan Blackman
Allan Blackman

New York Times, Friday, June 27, 1975

45-Across : Faroe winds

Author:
Allan Blackman
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 11, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 29.5
Allan Blackman has 17 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,449
Across
1
Rush-hour scarcity : SEAT
5
Natives of Perth : SCOTS
10
Kind of man : BEST
14
Fasten tightly : LASH
15
Alaskan native : ALEUT
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Literary river : AVON
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Play part : ACTI
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Color, in Italy : TINTA
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Pungent : TART
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Scene of a 1947 miracle : THIRTYFOURTHST
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Make tracks : DART
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Golfer's need : TEE
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Gen. Creighton ___ : ABRAMS
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Winchell's Orange Juice Gulch : BROADWAY
33
Golf shot : DRIVE
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___-de-lis : FLEUR
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Prior to : ERE
36
Overhang : EAVE
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Like China's wall : GREAT
38
Family member : MAMA
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Biblical wife : EVE
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Fail to be alert : SLEEP
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U.M.W. member : MINER
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Mrs. Lincoln : MARYTODD
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Sways : TOSSES
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Faroe winds : OES
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Coal region : SAAR
47
Traffic-jam ingredients : CROSSTOWNBUSES
54
Iranian V.I.P. : SHAH
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"Full speed ___" : AHEAD
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Frog maneuver : LEAP
57
Italian river : RENO
58
Turbulent : ROILY
59
Or ___ : ELSE
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"Tell ___ the judge" : ITTO
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Holiday times : YULES
62
Gorge : SATE
Down
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Louver : SLAT
2
" ... to ___ according to his needs" : EACH
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Wine city : ASTI
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Intersector of 20 Across : THIRDAVE
5
Prurient ones : SATYRS
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Actor Montgomery : CLIFT
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Wine: Prefix : OENO
8
Short skirt : TUTU
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Begin : STARTOUT
10
Suffused, as with sunlight : BATHED
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Le Gallienne et al. : EVAS
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___ of (rather) : SORT
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Explosive : TNT
21
Subdue : TAME
22
Kind of sheet or gas : TEAR
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Satisfy a legacy : ADEEM
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Greeting for a soprano : BRAVA
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Harlem or Hudson : RIVER
28
Feel anguish : BLEED
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Gather : REAP
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Reconciles to a loss : WEANS
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Napoleon's command : ARMEE
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Thirty ___ War : YEARS
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Allen or Stone : FRED
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Dictionary's relative : GLOSSARY
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Governs badly : MISRULES
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Holy women: Abbr. : STES
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Old land near Dead Sea : MOAB
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Shout for attention : YOOHOO
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Actress Jessica and family : TANDYS
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Small swamp : SWALE
47
Huntley : CHET
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___ and rave : RANT
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Quaker word : THOU
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Trompe l'___ : OEIL
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Burmese rice : SELA
52
Side of New York : EAST
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Graf ___ : SPEE
54
Hindu title : SRI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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