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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

New York Times, Saturday, July 10, 1982

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 34.4 Grid has duplicate clues.
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,932
Across
1
Greek letters : CHIS
5
Not up ___ (ailing) : TOPAR
10
Mild expletive : EGAD
14
Connection : LINK
15
Chemical compound : AMINE
16
Chorister : ALTO
17
Part of a debtor's voucher? : AFFIRMATIVEVOTE
20
They go first : PIONEERS
21
Part of the underworld : EREBUS
22
Savile Row wkrs. : TLRS
23
Baseball Hall of Fame name : TRIS
24
Baltic sailing vessel : GALEAS
27
Alpine wind : BISE
28
The check : TAB
31
Pindar, e.g. : ODIST
32
Long narrative : SAGA
33
___ die : SINE
34
Part of a debtor's voucher? : FIFTEENTHLETTER
37
Singer Nancy : AMES
38
Swag : LOOT
39
___ plexus : SOLAR
40
Scale notes : RES
41
Laborer : PEON
42
Eyeball coating : SCLERA
43
Hashish source : HEMP
44
French psychotherapist: 1857–1926 : COUE
45
Mate : SPOUSE
48
Tactful phrase : PARDONME
52
Part of a debtor's voucher? : PERSONALPRONOUN
54
End of a Stein line : ALAS
55
Kin of 'twas : TWERE
56
Sunup direction : EAST
57
Refuse : DENY
58
Slowpoke : SNAIL
59
Women : SHES
Down
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Applaud : CLAP
2
Stereo must : HIFI
3
Lowdown : INFO
4
Allergist's procedure : SKINTESTS
5
They beard the lions : TAMERS
6
Sharif and Bradley : OMARS
7
Quarries : PITS
8
Cuckoo : ANI
9
Setback : REVERSAL
10
House feature : EAVES
11
Shapeless mass : GLOB
12
Aleutian island : ATTU
13
Deer : DOES
18
Interact : RELATE
19
Sight from Cleveland : ERIE
23
Miserly : TIGHT
24
Attain eminence : GOFAR
25
" ... can you spare ___?" : ADIME
26
"___ Handicap": Kipling : LIFES
27
Maestro's prop : BATON
28
Count, e.g. : TITLE
29
Lend ___ (heed) : ANEAR
30
Yankee coach : BERRA
32
Pry : SNOOP
33
___ thunder (outdid) : STOLEONES
35
Violent weather : ELEMENTS
36
Lisbon money : ESCUDO
41
Dinero unit : PESO
42
Sourwood : SORREL
43
Brazen woman : HUSSY
44
Island off Italy : CAPRI
45
Fokker foe in W.W. I : SPAD
46
Soccer great : PELE
47
Algerian port : ORAN
48
Kind of bargaining : PLEA
49
Ham's father : NOAH
50
Guiding spirit : MUSE
51
Tolkien beings : ENTS
53
Arista : AWN

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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