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Laufer
Laufer

New York Times, Saturday, July 12, 1986

Author:
Laufer
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.72, Missing: { J Q X Y }, Scrabble score: 300 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 36.9
Laufer has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,395
Across
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Canaan ___, President of Zimbabwe : BANANA
7
Extinct ratite : MOA
10
Constellation Cygnus : SWAN
14
Declared : AVOWED
15
Fuss : ADO
16
Sharpen : HONE
17
Rattlesnake or missile : SIDEWINDER
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This plus a fungus equals a lichen : ALGA
20
Noted British painter of birds : EDE
21
Rorqual : SEI
22
Aide : STAFFER
24
Underwater apparatus : SCUBA
26
Lore of some bachelors : ARTS
27
Lake ___, N.Z. : HAWEA
30
Navy V.I.P. : SNO
32
Savory jelly : ASPIC
35
Shocked : AGHAST
37
Between, in Bologna : TRA
39
Printers' org. : ITU
40
Large amphibian : GIANTSALAMANDER
44
" ... ___ the Marbles," Falk film : ALL
45
One of the New Hebrides : EPI
46
Prefaces : PROEMS
47
Brooklyn hero, once : REESE
50
Lyrist Hillman : ROC
52
Of a dark grayish blue : PERSE
53
Slough : SHED
55
Man with a bang-up idea? : NOBEL
57
Moral : ETHICAL
60
Tick or beetle, to an Aussie : WOG
61
Siamang : APE
64
Part of some tables : LEAF
65
Like this puzzle's theme : ZOOLOGICAL
68
Starr of football : BART
69
Old English fricative : EDH
70
Associates of fibulas : TIBIAS
71
Conducts an interview : ASKS
72
Not Ind. or Rep. : DEM
73
Actress Locke : SONDRA
Down
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Ignoble : BASE
2
Eager : AVID
3
Central point : NODE
4
Loch ___, Scotland : AWE
5
Brokaw presentation : NEWSCAST
6
Farewell, in Fargues : ADIEU
7
Non compos mentis : MAD
8
Parabases : ODES
9
Blood line, in a way : AORTA
10
Arrows : SHAFTS
11
Tarantula : WOLFSPIDER
12
Gabriel, to Gabrielle : ANGE
13
Nigh : NEAR
18
His ___, the V.I.P. : NIBS
23
Macaw : ARA
24
Actor Connery : SEAN
25
Grown-up doodlebug : ANTLION
27
Comic strip Viking : HAGAR
28
Nimble : AGILE
29
Large, harmless fish : WHALESHARK
31
Mouths, to Marius : ORA
33
Agenda parts : ITEMS
34
Malediction : CURSE
36
Half a fly : TSE
38
Stereo component : AMP
41
Taxing mo. : APR
42
Chord having successive notes : ARPEGGIO
43
One of Byron's names : NOEL
48
Chemises : SHIFTS
49
Common Market letters : EEC
51
Monk's hood : COWL
54
Stunned : DAZED
56
Car trunks, in Truro : BOOTS
57
Isle of exile : ELBA
58
Bancha and cachar : TEAS
59
Kind of star or stone : LODE
61
This turns litmus red : ACID
62
Late night TV pioneer : PAAR
63
Famed lioness : ELSA
66
Resistance measure : OHM
67
___-Saud : IBN

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

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