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William Lutwiniak
New York Times, Wednesday, July 31, 1974
Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { none — this is a pangram }, Scrabble score: 305 (avg 1.63)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 30.3
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 W | 2 R | 3 E | 4 N | 5 S | 6 W | 7 U | 8 M | 9 S | 10 P | 11 A | 12 S |
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13 H | O | L | E | 14 S | P | O | R | E | 15 H | E | R | E |
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16 O | B | S | E | 17 Q | U | I | O | U | S | 18 A | J | A | X |
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19 S | E | A | D | U | C | K | S | 20 S | 21 I | M | O | N | Y |
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22 L | I | K | E | 23 A | G | E | R | |||||||
24 R | 25 E | 26 S | E | T | S | 27 P | 28 A | G | O | D | A | 29 S | ||
30 E | N | C | R | E | 31 A | L | T | E | R | 32 T | E | 33 N |
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34 O | N | U | S | 35 A | N | A | I | S | 36 J | I | V | E |
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37 S | U | R | 38 S | C | A | N | T | 39 H | I | V | E | S |
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40 I | R | 41 K | U | T | S | K | 42 P | O | T | E | N | T |
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43 I | N | R | E | 44 M | A | R | T | |||||||
45 A | 46 L | L | I | E | D | 47 G | A | R | D | E | 48 N | 49 I | 50 A |
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51 G | O | O | F | 52 F | 53 L | A | T | T | E | R | I | N | G |
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54 A | G | U | E | 55 O | O | Z | E | S | 56 E | N | N | A |
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57 L | E | S | S | 58 R | T | E | S | 59 D | O | O | R |
© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,118
Across
1
Songbird : WREN
5
Backstroked : SWUM
9
Resorts : SPAS
13
Putt's objective : HOLE
14
Reproductive body : SPORE
15
"___ today ... " : HERE
16
Servile : OBSEQUIOUS
18
Trojan War hero : AJAX
19
Eider and scoter : SEADUCKS
20
Church crime : SIMONY
22
Counterpart : LIKE
23
Teen-___ : AGER
24
Adjusts : RESETS
27
Eastern temples : PAGODAS
30
Ink: Fr. : ENCRE
31
Modify : ALTER
32
Lacrosse team : TEN
34
"Have mercy ___" : ONUS
35
Writer Nin : ANAIS
36
Swing music : JIVE
37
Big ___, Calif. : SUR
38
In short supply : SCANT
39
Homes of certain queens : HIVES
40
City on the Angara : IRKUTSK
42
Efficacious : POTENT
43
Legal phrase : INRE
44
Trading center : MART
45
Working together : ALLIED
47
Garden bloomer : GARDENIA
51
Faux pas : GOOF
52
Sycophantic : FLATTERING
54
Chills and fever : AGUE
55
Mires : OOZES
56
City of Sicily : ENNA
57
Minus : LESS
58
Hwys. : RTES
59
Entryway : DOOR
Down
1
___ who : WHOS
2
Apparel item : ROBE
3
One "born free" : ELSA
4
People with sharp tongues : NEEDLERS
5
Put out of commission : SPIKE
6
Goes a-courting : WOOS
7
Neighbor of Arg. : URU
8
Deliveries to Garcia et al. : MESSAGES
9
Disgraced : SHAMED
10
Disparaging : PEJORATIVE
11
Island off Ireland : ARAN
12
Like many novels : SEXY
14
Uses a straw : SUCKS
17
Wholly : QUITE
21
Stravinsky : IGOR
24
Old cars : REOS
25
Boredom : ENNUI
26
Calumnious : SCURRILOUS
27
Political convention output : PLANK
28
Have ___ (go after) : ATIT
29
Dice throw : SEVEN
31
Miscellanies : ANAS
33
Aerie : NEST
35
Played proxy : ACTEDFOR
36
Was nervous : JITTERED
38
Guaranteed : SURE
39
Swarm : HORDE
41
Slashes : KNIFES
42
Takes leave of : PARTS
44
Wins at the board : MATES
45
Bedouin headcord : AGAL
46
Theater seat : LOGE
47
Steady look : GAZE
48
Tijuana child : NINO
49
___ way : INNO
50
Culture medium : AGAR
53
Realty unit : LOT
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.