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William Lutwiniak
New York Times, Saturday, August 3, 1985
Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.50, Missing: { F J Q W X }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 14, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 56.7
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 A | 2 M | 3 B | 4 E | 5 R | 6 C | 7 H | 8 A | 9 T | 10 S | |||||
11 S | M | A | L | T | I | 12 L | A | T | H | E | 13 S | |||
14 I | N | B | R | O | A | D | 15 D | A | Y | L | I | G | H | 16 T |
17 D | E | A | L | T | 18 D | I | R | E | 19 N | O | T | A |
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20 R | E | G | S | 21 B | A | S | E | D | 22 V | I | P |
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23 I | Z | E | 24 T | I | N | C | T | 25 P | 26 R | I | C | E |
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27 S | E | S | 28 T | E | R | C | E | 29 B | R | E | A | K | S |
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30 E | N | T | E | R | 31 T | A | I | N | ||||||
32 D | 33 A | 34 L | E | T | H | 35 N | O | I | S | E | 36 T | 37 T | 38 E |
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39 I | V | A | N | S | 40 S | M | O | T | E | 41 R | A | P |
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42 R | A | Y | 43 D | U | E | L | S | 44 C | O | M | O |
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45 A | T | E | 46 E | 47 I | N | N | S | 48 S | L | U | E | D |
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49 C | A | R | D | 50 S | O | N | T | H | 51 E | T | A | B | L | E |
52 R | E | D | O | N | E | 53 E | V | E | N | L | Y | |||
54 D | A | T | E | D | 55 D | E | N | S | E |
© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,052
Across
1
Caution signal : AMBER
6
Songbirds : CHATS
11
Mosaic pieces : SMALTI
12
Turnery equipment : LATHES
14
Openly, and not nocturnally : INBROADDAYLIGHT
17
Did business : DEALT
18
Urgent : DIRE
19
Part of N.B. : NOTA
20
Mil. units : REGS
21
Stationed : BASED
22
Brass hat : VIP
23
Ending with real : IZE
24
" ... syrops, ___ with cinnamon": Keats : TINCT
25
Charge : PRICE
27
Coin for Cato : SESTERCE
29
Separations : BREAKS
30
Have in mind : ENTERTAIN
32
Letter after gimel : DALETH
35
Morsel of meat : NOISETTE
39
Lendl and Turgenev : IVANS
40
Struck hard : SMOTE
41
What fall guys take : RAP
42
Devilfish : RAY
43
Goes one-on-one with : DUELS
44
Durable Perry : COMO
45
To ___ (just so) : ATEE
47
___ of the Court : INNS
48
Pivoted : SLUED
49
Put one's ___ (conceal nothing) : CARDSONTHETABLE
52
Amended extensively : REDONE
53
With justice : EVENLY
54
Old hat : DATED
55
Slow-witted : DENSE
Down
1
Secret ways of action : AMBAGES
2
Friable soils : MARLS
3
Soak up : BLOT
4
Sked abbr. : ETA
5
This is often good : RIDDANCE
6
Red Bordeaux : CLARET
7
Did a farm job : HAYED
8
Part of NATO : ATL
9
Unconvincing : THIN
10
Famed guitarist : SEGOVIA
11
___ at (take lightly) : SNEEZE
13
Attention-getting device : SHTICK
14
Libyan king : IDRIS
15
Acumen : DISCERNMENT
16
Items broken by some victors : TAPES
21
Beginning : BIRTH
24
Bivouac sights : TENTS
25
Word on the Expos' scoreboard : PRISE
26
___ Coty : RENE
28
Cardinal-number ending : TEEN
29
Harasses : BAITS
31
Farm structure : TOOLSHED
32
Nobelist in Physics: 1933 : DIRAC
33
Reincarnation : AVATAR
34
Stratiform : LAYERED
36
Vex : TROUBLE
37
Without pizzazz : TAMELY
38
Verse form : EPODE
40
Basked : SUNNED
43
Saturn satellite : DIONE
44
Coteries' cousins : CLANS
46
Soprano Moser : EDDA
48
"Nana" star : STEN
50
Wino : SOT
51
Trevor ___, British actor : EVE
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 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.