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Jack Luzzatto
New York Times, Friday, June 8, 1979
Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 30, Avg Word Len: 5.57, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 92, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 39.5
Jack Luzzatto has 293 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 D | 2 E | 3 A | 4 D | 5 P | 6 A | 7 N | 8 B | 9 L | 10 A | 11 I | 12 S | 13 E |
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14 E | M | B | A | R | G | O | 15 D | E | E | P | S | E | A |
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16 V | E | R | N | I | E | R | 17 O | R | A | T | O | R | S |
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18 O | R | A | N | G | 19 S | 20 P | U | R | N | 21 L | E | T |
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22 T | I | D | Y | 23 D | E | R | B | Y | 24 D | A | N | E |
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25 E | E | E | 26 C | O | M | E | T | 27 N | O | T | E | R |
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28 D | R | 29 E | A | D | E | D | 30 H | E | W | E | R | S |
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31 D | I | G | N | I | 32 F | I | E | S | ||||||
33 H | 34 U | 35 N | G | R | Y | 36 C | I | N | D | E | 37 R | 38 S | ||
39 A | L | I | E | N | 40 P | A | R | T | Y | 41 E | T | 42 C |
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43 N | U | N | S | 44 B | A | T | E | S | 45 S | P | A | R |
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46 O | L | E | 47 M | A | N | E | D | 48 M | A | T | I | E |
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49 V | A | M | 50 O | O | S | E | 51 O | 52 P | A | L | I | N | E |
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53 E | T | E | R | N | A | L | 54 G | E | N | T | L | E | D |
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55 R | E | N | T | A | L | 56 S | T | A | Y | E | R | S |
© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,804
Across
1
Expressionless : DEADPAN
8
Pascal : BLAISE
14
Restriction : EMBARGO
15
Blue water : DEEPSEA
16
Scale named for a French mathematician : VERNIER
17
Spellbinders : ORATORS
18
Borneo ape, for short : ORANG
19
Disdain : SPURN
21
Obstacle : LET
22
Well kept : TIDY
23
Track thriller : DERBY
24
Hamlet : DANE
25
Shoe width : EEE
26
Sky blazer : COMET
27
Observant one : NOTER
28
Awaited fearfully : DREADED
30
Axmen : HEWERS
31
Ennobles : DIGNIFIES
33
Ravenous : HUNGRY
36
Fragments from fires : CINDERS
39
Strange : ALIEN
40
Social affair : PARTY
41
Useful abbr. : ETC
43
St. Teresa's group : NUNS
44
Author of "America the Beautiful" : BATES
45
Ship pole : SPAR
46
Music to a matador's ears : OLE
47
Shaggy : MANED
48
Fat young herring : MATIE
49
"Get lost!" : VAMOOSE
51
Iridescent : OPALINE
53
Irving Stone's "Love Is ___" : ETERNAL
54
Stroked soothingly : GENTLED
55
Kind of library : RENTAL
56
Those with endurance : STAYERS
Down
1
Set apart solemnly : DEVOTE
2
Rubbed with a mineral substance : EMERIED
3
Tool for scraping : ABRADER
4
Ozark or Thomas : DANNY
5
Prissy person : PRIG
6
Application information : AGE
7
Vinland voyagers : NORSEMEN
8
Coffee bean, e.g. : BERRY
9
Angular : LEAN
10
Like le mot juste : APT
11
Deny contact : ISOLATE
12
More collected : SERENER
13
Spring times : EASTERS
15
Uncertainty : DOUBT
20
Assert : PREDICATE
23
Evasive : DODGY
24
Divine : DOWSE
26
Stone-heap marker : CAIRN
27
Deserving of welfare : NEEDY
29
Borders : EDGES
30
Slight helps : HINTS
32
Andirons : FIREDOGS
33
Victoria's house : HANOVER
34
Lament loudly : ULULATE
35
Diamond or court group : NINEMEN
37
Trouble in Paradise : REPTILE
38
He dyes for a living : STAINER
40
Wall decoration : PANEL
42
Codes of belief : CREEDS
44
Fundamental : BASAL
45
Smacking of the sea : SALTY
47
Woman who barely smiled : MONA
48
"Give a ___ horse ... " : MANA
50
Noted women's service org. : ORT
52
Display of temper : PET
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.