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William Lutwiniak
New York Times, Thursday, July 20, 1978
Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { V Z }, Scrabble score: 299 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 53.9
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 A | 2 S | 3 T | 4 I | 5 H | 6 A | 7 L | 8 T | 9 U | 10 L | 11 A | 12 R |
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13 B | U | R | L | 14 O | M | A | H | 15 A | 16 N | O | R | A |
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17 I | C | E | L | 18 R | A | D | A | R | 19 F | R | I | T |
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20 T | H | E | F | 21 O | R | S | Y | T | E | 22 S | A | G | A | |
23 A | M | O | S | 24 S | A | T | I | N | ||||||
25 R | 26 I | 27 T | T | E | R | 28 W | E | R | E | 29 N | 30 T |
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31 A | S | H | E | N | 32 S | 33 Q | 34 U | A | W | 35 T | O | W |
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36 L | O | R | D | 37 P | I | E | T | Y | 38 A | T | L | I |
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39 P | L | O | 40 T | A | R | D | E | 41 S | M | E | L | T |
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42 H | A | W | 43 S | E | R | 44 L | A | P | S | E | S |
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45 S | P | E | A | 46 K | 47 A | O | N | E | ||||||
48 J | O | H | N | G | A | 49 L | S | W | O | R | 50 T | 51 H | 52 Y |
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53 H | O | P | I | 54 O | P | I | N | E | 55 A | A | A | A |
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56 A | D | E | N | 57 N | U | D | E | S | 58 G | I | R | L |
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59 L | Y | N | X | 60 T | O | R | T | 61 E | L | E | E |
© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,568
Across
1
___ spumante : ASTI
5
Cease : HALT
9
Suffix with pop or cell : ULAR
13
Actor Ives : BURL
14
D-Day beach : OMAHA
16
Mrs. Helmer : NORA
17
Reykjavik's country: Abbr. : ICEL
18
"M*A*S*H" role : RADAR
19
Materials for making glass : FRIT
20
Trilogy re three generations : THEFORSYTESAGA
23
Freeman Gosden role : AMOS
24
Glossy fabric : SATIN
25
Thelma or Tex : RITTER
28
Common contraction : WERENT
31
Pallid : ASHEN
32
Sacajawea was one : SQUAW
35
Haul : TOW
36
Peerage type : LORD
37
Devoutness : PIETY
38
Gudrun's husband : ATLI
39
Arafat's org. : PLO
40
Juan's afternoon : TARDE
41
Food fish : SMELT
42
Mooring line : HAWSER
44
Follies : LAPSES
45
Utter : SPEAK
47
Tops : AONE
48
Author of 20 Across : JOHNGALSWORTHY
53
Pueblo Indian : HOPI
54
Air a view : OPINE
55
Good student's report card quartet : AAAA
56
Indian Ocean gulf : ADEN
57
Certain works of art : NUDES
58
Lass : GIRL
59
Wildcat : LYNX
60
A wrongful act, to a lawyer : TORT
61
Robt. ___ : ELEE
Down
1
Wait-___ (thorny plant) : ABIT
2
"___ men are dangerous" : SUCH
3
Teil or carob : TREE
4
Star-crossed : ILLFATED
5
Dread : HORROR
6
Accumulate : AMASS
7
"Tramp" in a 1937 song : LADY
8
"___ Amore" : THATS
9
Not equitable : UNFAIR
10
Eyeglasses mounted on handles : LORGNETTES
11
Sills's forte : ARIA
12
Turncoat : RAT
15
Basement access : AREAWAY
21
Straw in the wind : OMEN
22
Swivet or tizzy : STEW
25
Bellamy from Chicago : RALPH
26
Ischia is one : ISOLA
27
Removes restrictions from : THROWSOPEN
29
___ prosequi (court-record entry) : NOLLE
30
Needles : TWITS
32
Eden or Olivier : SIR
33
Euclidean abbr. : QED
34
All-purpose truck : UTE
37
Model of excellence : PARAGON
38
Strength of an electrical current : AMPERAGE
40
Numerical ending : TEEN
41
Sound, in Seville : SANO
43
Enigmatic one : SPHINX
44
At the nadir : LOWEST
46
Gone phfft : KAPUT
47
He plays Lou Grant on TV : ASNER
48
Powell of the White House : JODY
49
Adriatic resort : LIDO
50
Shadow : TAIL
51
Leveret : HARE
52
Ivy League member : YALE
53
Holbrook from Cleveland : HAL
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.
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