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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

New York Times, Saturday, August 7, 1982

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { G K Q }, Scrabble score: 322 (avg 1.67)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 33.8 Grid has duplicate clues.
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,960
Across
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Towering : TALL
5
Vegetable silk : FLOSS
10
Hared : SPED
14
Sierra Madre valley : OJAI
15
Poker ploy : RAISE
16
Hawaiian granny or grandpa : TUTU
17
Hornswoggled : BAMBOOZLED
19
Pound : EZRA
20
Business deduction : EXPENSES
21
Like Mets fans in '69 : AMAZED
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Goes bad : ROTS
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To any extent : ATALL
25
Lacquers : JAPANS
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Supervised : OVERSEEN
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Virtue : ARETE
32
Carapace : SHELL
33
Memorable Oriental : MAO
34
___ Straits, rock group : DIRE
35
Adjective for the Minotaur : SCARY
36
Dinero unit : PESO
37
Sixth sense, for short : ESP
38
Goes a round : SPARS
39
Noxious things : BANES
40
Pres. Hayes's birthplace in Ohio : DELAWARE
42
Scott's "___ Dangerous" : CASTLE
43
Heroic accounts : EPICS
44
Accretion : RUST
45
Focus the eyes on : FIXATE
47
Employers of "stews" : AIRLINES
51
Ending with axiom : ATIC
52
Mystification : BAFFLEMENT
54
Stone: Comb. form : LITH
55
Swinburne's "___ of Balen" : ATALE
56
Wagnerian role : ERDA
57
"Such __ have sown ... ": Lydgate : ASYE
58
Harder to find : RARER
59
Fuliginous substance : SOOT
Down
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Start of a soliloquy : TOBE
2
Tragedy by Sophocles : AJAX
3
Light source : LAMP
4
Free : LIBERATE
5
Adds icing : FROSTS
6
Takes it easy : LAZES
7
Edward Hopper's medium : OILS
8
Wind direction : SSE
9
In unruffled style : SEDATELY
10
Peculates : STEALS
11
Mystification : PUZZLEMENT
12
Peut-___ (maybe, in Metz) : ETRE
13
Couple : DUAD
18
"A linen stock ___ leg ... ": Shak. : ONONE
22
Crumbly earth : MARL
24
Says it is so : AVERS
25
Worn-out : JADED
26
Emanate : ARISE
27
Bewilderment : PERPLEXITY
28
Ill. airport : OHARE
29
Display item : EASEL
30
Springe catch : NOOSE
32
Catfaces : SCARS
35
Typewriter part that sounds way out : SPACEBAR
36
Hobbies : PASTIMES
38
Loretta from Passaic : SWIT
39
Older name of a Swiss city : BASLE
41
Athapascan Indian : APACHE
42
Worker in a felt-hat plant : CURLER
44
Springfield, e.g. : RIFLE
45
Part song : FALA
46
"How sweet ___!": Gleason : ITIS
47
Miles away : AFAR
48
"Quo Vadis?" character : NERO
49
Inner: Prefix : ENDO
50
A facsimile, for short : STAT
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___ standstill : ATA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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