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A. J. Santora
New York Times, Saturday, July 9, 1977
Author:
A. J. Santora
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.46, Missing: { F J K Q V X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 59.0
A. J. Santora has 185 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 68 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
1 H | 2 A | 3 I | 4 L | 5 R | 6 U | 7 T | 8 H | 9 A | 10 D | 11 L | 12 E | 13 R |
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14 U | L | N | A | 15 O | S | E | E | 16 M | I | A | M | I |
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17 M | E | A | D | 18 B | E | S | T | 19 W | I | S | H | E | S |
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20 I | N | C | I | 21 S | O | R | S | 22 A | T | E | R | R | E |
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23 D | E | C | E | I | T | S | 24 T | H | I | S | ||||
25 U | S | N | 26 A | R | I | E | T | 27 T | 28 A | |||||
29 M | 30 U | R | I | E | 31 L | 32 M | A | N | S | A | R | D | 33 S |
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34 O | R | A | N | 35 A | 36 D | A | M | E | 37 B | A | R | T |
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38 E | N | T | W | 39 I | N | E | S | 40 S | 41 E | L | M | A | S |
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42 S | E | A | N | C | E | S | 43 D | I | P | |||||
44 I | T | E | M | 45 E | 46 N | I | S | L | 47 E | 48 D |
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49 E | 50 L | 51 A | T | E | R | 52 A | N | A | T | H | E | M | A |
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53 R | O | B | I | N | S | 54 E | G | G | S | 55 I | S | E | R |
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56 I | C | O | N | S | 57 G | A | L | A | 58 N | O | S | E |
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59 S | I | N | G | E | 60 O | R | E | L | 61 G | N | A | R |
© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,192
Across
1
Salute : HAIL
5
Old Testament book : RUTH
9
Colleague of Freud : ADLER
14
Armbone : ULNA
15
Form of "Hosea" : OSEE
16
Orange Bowl site : MIAMI
17
Anthropologist Margaret : MEAD
18
Felicitations : BESTWISHES
20
Some teeth : INCISORS
22
Pied-___ (lodging) : ATERRE
23
Frauds : DECEITS
24
"Do you take ___ woman ... " : THIS
25
Where an Ens. serves : USN
26
Short solo : ARIETTA
29
Mrs. Humphrey : MURIEL
32
Garrets : MANSARDS
34
Algerian port : ORAN
35
" ... nothing like ___" : ADAME
37
Starr of Green Bay : BART
38
Wraps around : ENTWINES
40
Nobelist Lagerlöf et al. : SELMAS
42
Eerie sittings : SEANCES
43
Immerse : DIP
44
Article : ITEM
45
Marooned : ENISLED
49
Click beetle : ELATER
52
Imprecation : ANATHEMA
53
Light-blue items in a nest : ROBINSEGGS
55
River to the Elbe : ISER
56
Sacred figures : ICONS
57
Fun affair : GALA
58
Kind of cone : NOSE
59
Burn slightly : SINGE
60
City on the Oka : OREL
61
Angry-dog sound : GNAR
Down
1
Vaporous : HUMID
2
Coeur d'___ (resort lake) : ALENE
3
Faulty : INACCURATE
4
Palace help : LADIESINWAITING
5
Mechanical man : ROBOT
6
Customers : USERS
7
Dick Tracy's wife : TESS
8
___ up (excited) : HET
9
Friendships : AMITIES
10
Withdrawing support, as from a church : DISESTABLISHING
11
Comic Bert : LAHR
12
Retired: Abbr. : EMER
13
Stand up : RISE
19
Hilo girls : WAHINES
21
Function, in trig : SINE
24
Cable car : TRAM
26
Gather : AMASS
27
Tyrannizes : TRAMPLESON
28
Port of Spain : ADRA
29
One of the "Stooges" : MOE
30
Coffeemakers : URNS
31
Cavalry, of old : LANCERS
33
Aves. : STS
36
Think : DEEM
39
Fierce : INTENSE
41
Redact : EDIT
45
"Worn Earth" poet : ENGLE
46
Twangy : NASAL
47
City of old Syria : EMESA
48
He bells the cat : DARER
49
Apple-tossing goddess : ERIS
50
Points; places : LOCI
51
___ marché (cheap) : ABON
52
Solidifying agent : AGAR
54
Kind of trip : EGO
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 6 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.