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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Friday, July 26, 1985

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 26.4
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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S
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A
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V
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E
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B
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F
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F
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S
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D
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A
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W
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N
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O
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C
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I
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B
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S
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C
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O
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T
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M
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A
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N
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A
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H
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A
M
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B
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A
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M
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Y
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S
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O
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A
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N
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F
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T
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R
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G
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R
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O
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R
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J
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F
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H
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D
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R
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O
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,044
Across
1
Goalie's feat : SAVE
5
Fairway boo-boos : BAFFS
10
Kind of patrol : DAWN
14
Avocado's shape : OVAL
15
Professeur's milieu : ECOLE
16
Netman Nastase : ILIE
17
Salvation Army official : FIRSTLIEUTENANT
20
Zoo features : AVIARIES
21
Author Repplier : AGNES
22
Poet's contraction : EER
23
Frontier country : BUSH
25
British burglar : SECONDSTOREYMAN
33
Acclimatize : ADAPT
34
Down at the ___ : HEEL
35
First-year-Latin verb : AMO
36
Shade of blue : BICE
37
Conservationist Cleveland : AMORY
39
Originate : STEM
40
Slugger Mel : OTT
41
Gulf of the Arabian Sea : ADEN
42
Railway warning signal : FUSEE
43
Injury sometimes caused by an arsonist : THIRDDEGREEBURN
47
Cashier : OUST
48
Wing of a sort : ELL
49
Of a region : AREAL
52
Slatted structure : JALOUSIE
57
Time, to Einstein : FOURTHDIMENSION
60
Singular : RARE
61
Engine-room helper : OILER
62
Part of A.D. : ANNO
63
Repute : ODOR
64
Item in a register : ENTRY
65
___ up (squeal on oneself) : FESS
Down
1
Lounge furniture : SOFA
2
Tel ___ : AVIV
3
Ruffed lemur : VARI
4
Designer Schiaparelli : ELSA
5
Misrepresented : BELIED
6
Quaker grays : ACIERS
7
Hannibal and Scipio : FOES
8
Respiratory ailment : FLU
9
Solidify : SET
10
Lifeboat on a yacht : DINGHY
11
Poet Seeger : ALAN
12
Marsala or Málaga : WINE
13
Knicks' rivals : NETS
18
England's third-longest river : TRENT
19
Artist's need : EASEL
23
South African citizen : BOER
24
Nobelist in Chemistry: 1934 : UREY
25
Wooden shoe : SABOT
26
Piaf or Head : EDITH
27
Prickly pears, e.g. : CACTI
28
Uncover, to a bard : OPE
29
Whiplash : THONG
30
Chinese island : MATSU
31
Moslem title of honor : AMEER
32
Name : NOMEN
37
Appends : ADDS
38
Converge : MEET
39
Prefix with merge : SUB
41
Fully developed : ADULT
42
Criminal : FELON
44
Lion, often : ROARER
45
Kitchen utensil : REAMER
46
Queen of whodunits : ELLERY
49
Kind of American : AFRO
50
Byway : ROAD
51
Large kangaroo : EURO
52
Leave a lover in the lurch : JILT
53
Mil. arm : USAF
54
___ qua non : SINE
55
Subatomic particles : IONS
56
Biblical patriarch : ENOS
58
Get rid of weeds : HOE
59
Racket : DIN

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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