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David Crosatto
David Crosatto

New York Times, Saturday, August 17, 1974

60-Across : More washed-out

Author:
David Crosatto
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.51, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 81, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
David Crosatto has 9 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,135
Across
1
Lengthy tale : SAGA
5
British resort : BATH
9
Author of "Hyperion" : KEATS
14
Exam : ORAL
15
"Visi d'Arte," for one : ARIA
16
Inspire : IMBUE
17
Trivial finery : FALLALERY
19
Opera's Nellie : MELBA
20
Composer Harold : ARLEN
21
Bodily : CORPOREAL
23
Antelope of Siberia : SAIGA
24
Thais or Chinese : ASIANS
25
Hindu scripture : VEDA
27
Flagged : DROOPED
31
Elms, catalpas, etc. : SHADETREES
35
Zola novel : NANA
36
Kind of pal : PEN
37
Teachers, in Troyes : MAITRES
39
Van Winkle : RIP
40
Wiles : ARTS
42
Wall fixtures of a kind : MOOSEHEADS
44
Mobile dinner for dobbin : NOSEBAG
46
Bayh and Kennedy: Abbr. : SENS
47
Author Korzeniowski : CONRAD
50
"May I show you you to ___?" : ASEAT
53
Foe : ADVERSARY
56
Lithuanian city : VILNA
57
General at Gettysburg : MEADE
58
Silent : NOISELESS
60
More washed-out : PALER
61
Force : DINT
62
Son of Seth : ENOS
63
Huskies' burdens : SLEDS
64
Irritable : EDGY
65
Sand hill, in England : DENE
Down
1
Couches : SOFAS
2
Macaw : ARARA
3
Traipses : GALLIVANTS
4
Word for a suspect : ALLEGED
5
___ masqué : BAL
6
Palm : ARECA
7
Weather satellite : TIROS
8
People on a certain outing : HAYRIDERS
9
Robe for Madame Butterfly : KIMONO
10
Essayist-poet : EMERSON
11
Competent : ABLE
12
Band instrument : TUBA
13
Decide irrevocably : SEAL
18
Poetic wreath : ANADEM
22
Zoroastrians : PARSEES
26
Cossack leaders : ATAMANS
28
Mock moon : PARASELENE
29
Oklahoma city : ENID
30
Drops bait on water : DAPS
31
Nine inches : SPAN
32
Merriwell, for one : HERO
33
El Paso's river : RIOGRANDE
34
W. W. II acronym : ETO
38
Grooved pulley wheel : SHEAVE
41
What Texas did on Feb. 1, 1861 : SECEDED
43
Stored fodder : ENSILED
45
Plant pests : BORERS
48
Sweet flag or calla lily : AROID
49
___ swan : DYING
51
Hall-of-Famer Cap : ANSON
52
Cup, at Maxim's : TASSE
53
Elec. units : AMPS
54
Raw or New : DEAL
55
Farewell: Lat. : VALE
59
Eyelid swelling : STY

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

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