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Paul R. Barnes
New York Times, Thursday, July 1, 1976
Author:
Paul R. Barnes
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 73,
Cheaters: 0,
FITB: 6,
XRef: 0,
Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7,
Grid flow: 24.3
Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
1 F | 2 I | 3 D | 4 O | | 5 S | 6 A | 7 N | 8 D | 9 Y | | 10 F | 11 A | 12 L | 13 A |
14 I | T | E | M | | 15 E | R | A | S | E | | 16 I | R | E | S |
17 F | I | L | I | | 18 P | R | I | M | O | | 19 N | E | A | T |
20 I | N | S | C | 21 H | O | O | L | | 22 M | 23 A | I | A | N | A |
| | | 24 R | A | Y | E | | 25 H | A | N | S | | | |
26 P | 27 A | 28 R | O | L | S | | 29 L | O | N | G | H | 30 A | 31 U | 32 L |
33 L | E | O | N | E | | 34 B | A | R | R | E | | 35 S | T | U |
36 U | S | O | S | | 37 D | A | I | S | Y | | 38 A | T | I | C |
39 T | O | N | | 40 P | E | S | K | Y | | 41 S | T | I | C | K |
42 O | P | E | 43 R | E | T | T | A | | 44 D | E | L | R | A | Y |
| | | 45 A | G | E | E | | 46 E | R | M | A | | | |
47 F | 48 L | 49 A | G | O | N | | 50 A | G | A | I | N | 51 S | 52 A | 53 M |
54 R | A | N | I | | 55 T | 56 R | A | G | I | | 57 T | O | L | U |
58 E | V | E | N | | 59 E | U | L | E | N | | 60 E | A | S | T |
61 D | A | W | G | | 62 S | T | U | D | S | | 63 S | P | O | T |
© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,819
Across
1
Common name for a dog :
FIDO5
Orphan Annie's dog :
SANDY10
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
22
24
25
26
29
33
34
Vermont granite city :
BARRE35
36
Servicemen's clubs :
USOS37
38
Suffer ___ (have spasms) :
ATIC39
40
41
T.R. carried a big one :
STICK42
44
45
Pulitzer author of 1958 :
AGEE46
47
50
Bogart never said "Play it ___" :
AGAINSAM54
55
___comic (half serious, half not) :
TRAGI57
58
59
60
61
Hi and Lois's canine :
DAWG62
63
Name for a Dalmatian :
SPOT
Down
1
Dog in "Bringing Up Father" :
FIFI2
"Stick ___ your ear!" :
ITIN3
Convention people: Abbr. :
DELS4
5
6
Indonesian island group :
ARROE7
Manicurist's target :
NAIL8
9
10
11
12
Jack Sprat's choice :
LEAN13
Dog of Nick and Nora :
ASTA21
23
French heavenly being :
ANGE25
Like the polo crowd :
HORSY26
27
28
Arledge of TV sports :
ROONE29
30
31
City on the Mohawk :
UTICA32
Fortunate dog of comics :
LUCKY34
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38
40
41
43
44
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
Dog for Jeff's friend :
MUTT56
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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