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John Chervokas
John Chervokas

New York Times, Monday, July 23, 1979

6-Down : Get rid of

Author:
John Chervokas
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 4.89, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 259 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 82, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 9.2
John Chervokas has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,849
Across
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Concord : PEACE
6
National women's org. : DAR
9
___ Ike : ALIBI
14
Former German coin : TALER
15
"Was ___ vision ... ?": Keats : ITA
16
Violently intense : RABID
17
Ski center in Colo. : ASPEN
18
Sullen : SATURNINE
20
Novelist-poet Hermann : HESSE
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Map; blueprint : PLAN
22
Dog-day drinks : ADES
23
Western showdown : SHOOTOUT
26
"Piece of cake" : SNAP
30
Thessalonian peak : OSSA
31
Hearsay : RUMOR
35
City SE of Milan : LODI
36
Nudnick : PEST
37
Start of a golf match : DRIVE
38
Good-looking Greek : ADONIS
40
Con games : BUNCOS
41
No-nos : TABUS
42
Half of Hamlet's dilemma : TOBE
45
___ Stanley Gardner : ERLE
46
Caught forty winks : SLEPT
47
Irish exclamation : ARRA
48
Taro, for example : ROOT
49
Description of 29 Down : GORGEOUS
52
Romantic isle : BALI
55
Vapor: Comb. form : ATMO
56
Choreographer Twyla : THARP
61
Racial segregation : APARTHEID
63
Angry one : RAGER
64
Uncle Miltie : BERLE
65
Hot-pot drink : ALE
66
Straighten : ALINE
67
Obliterate : ERASE
68
Weather forecast: Abbr. : MLD
69
Bandleader Herman : WOODY
Down
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Egyptian god : PTAH
2
Comfort : EASE
3
Italian, Swiss or French group : ALPS
4
Average grades : CEES
5
Sea birds : ERNES
6
Get rid of : DISPOSE
7
Bewildered : ATALOSS
8
Relative of knock-knock : RATATAT
9
O'Hare abbr. : ARR
10
"Sweater Girl" of yesteryear : LANATURNER
11
Footnote abbr. : IBID
12
Shoot : BINE
13
Roman date : IDES
19
Before due : UNO
24
Beer ingredient : HOPS
25
An official language of Pakistan : URDU
26
Strips of wood : SLATS
27
Near a swollen joint : NODAL
28
Hacienda material : ADOBE
29
Barracks belles : PINUPGIRLS
32
Teeny-weeny: Prefix : MICRO
33
Curved molding : OVOLO
34
Place again : RESET
39
Ratio words : ISTO
40
Actor Bridges : BEAU
42
Pair of wrestlers : TAGTEAM
43
Building for native minerals : OREMILL
44
Dwelt moodily on a subject : BROODED
50
Autumn sound : RAH
51
Kind of berry or boss : STRAW
52
Herman of baseball : BABE
53
Mimic : APER
54
Pasternak heroine : LARA
57
Sign of sainthood : HALO
58
Trade discount : AGIO
59
Tear violently : REND
60
The hunted : PREY
62
Equipment for 37 Across : TEE

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

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