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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Saturday, August 21, 1982

53-Across : Deletions

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { Q }, Scrabble score: 338 (avg 1.81)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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P
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F
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C
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S
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C
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U
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M
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J
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A
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C
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K
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A
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L
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O
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U
S
A
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A
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D
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R
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N
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C
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N
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K
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J
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N
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R
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T
V
S
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E
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T
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T
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W
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O
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A
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S
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K
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D
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S
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A
C
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H
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G
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D
O
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J
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C
K
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D
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R
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Z
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D
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M
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S
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F
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E
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E
C
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C
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J
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A
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N
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T
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B
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O
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X
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S
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N
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L
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P
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P
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R
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A
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A
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K
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A
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S
L
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D
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M
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Y
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L
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E
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,974
Across
1
Some G.I.'s : PFCS
5
___ grano salis : CUM
8
Mean, voracious lackey : JACKAL
14
Oeillade : OGLE
15
U.N. member : USA
16
In : ATHOME
17
East Indian food : DHAL
18
Scud : RUN
19
Pompadour, to Louis XV : CHERIE
20
Manatee or dugong : SIRENIAN
22
Composers Bernhard and Bruno : KLEINS
23
Ignis fatuus : JACKOLANTERN
25
They're in 98% of Amer. homes : TVS
26
Use up : EAT
27
Brace : TWO
30
Invited : ASKED
33
___ Coeur, Paris : SACRE
35
Hampshire, e.g. : HOG
36
Adequately cooked : DONE
37
Schoolyard game : JACKS
38
Gloomy : DOUR
39
Playwright Akins : ZOE
40
Knights' counterparts : DAMES
41
Actress Minnie Maddern : FISKE
42
La saison chaude : ETE
43
Silver five-franc piece : ECU
44
Type of lettuce : COS
45
Burglar's tool : JACKINTHEBOX
51
Fishline leaders : SNELLS
53
Deletions : ERASURES
55
Tether for a grazing horse : LARIAT
56
Infant's food : PAP
57
___ avis : RARA
58
Place to spend liras : ANKARA
59
Lifetime : AGE
60
Monoski, e.g. : SLED
61
Actor in "East of Eden" : MASSEY
62
Diamond ___ : LIL
63
Being, to Aquinas : ESSE
Down
1
Schools of seals : PODS
2
E-K connection : FGHIJ
3
A Schumann : CLARA
4
One caught in a draft : SELECTEE
5
Rare bric-a-brac : CURIOS
6
Customary : USUAL
7
Unexpected plenty : MANNA
8
Sailors : JACKTARS
9
Jenner, for one : ATHLETE
10
"The best of healers is good ___": Pindar : CHEER
11
Corinth, to a native : KORINTHOS
12
Deposed Ugandan ruler : AMIN
13
Dregs : LEES
21
O.G.P.U. successor : NKVD
24
Narrow strips of land : NECKS
28
Novelist Herman : WOUK
29
Man-eating giant : OGRE
30
Carpenter's tool : ADZE
31
Fireplace residue : SOOT
32
Involuntary reactions : KNEEJERKS
33
Island in the Gulf of Siam : SAMUI
34
Pip : ACE
37
Part of a ship's rigging : JACKSTAY
38
Pay out : DISBURSE
40
Reveal to a customs inspector : DECLARE
41
Arduin and Henry II : FOES
44
Oratory : CHAPEL
46
Cover-up name : ALIAS
47
Everest borders it : NEPAL
48
Prefix with comedy : TRAGI
49
Certain tests : ORALS
50
Town for which sherry was named : XERES
51
Bridge coup : SLAM
52
Nursemaid : NANA
54
Hebrew letter : SADE

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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