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Jack Luzzatto
Jack Luzzatto

New York Times, Friday, June 8, 1979

27-Down : Deserving of welfare

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
Jack Luzzatto has 292 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,804
Across
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Expressionless : DEADPAN
8
Pascal : BLAISE
14
Restriction : EMBARGO
15
Blue water : DEEPSEA
16
Scale named for a French mathematician : VERNIER
17
Spellbinders : ORATORS
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Borneo ape, for short : ORANG
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Disdain : SPURN
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Obstacle : LET
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Well kept : TIDY
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Track thriller : DERBY
24
Hamlet : DANE
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Shoe width : EEE
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Sky blazer : COMET
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Observant one : NOTER
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Awaited fearfully : DREADED
30
Axmen : HEWERS
31
Ennobles : DIGNIFIES
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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
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Those with endurance : STAYERS
Down
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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
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Deserving of welfare : NEEDY
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Borders : EDGES
30
Slight helps : HINTS
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Andirons : FIREDOGS
33
Victoria's house : HANOVER
34
Lament loudly : ULULATE
35
Diamond or court group : NINEMEN
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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
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"Give a ___ horse ... " : MANA
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Noted women's service org. : ORT
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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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