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Alfio Micci
Alfio Micci

New York Times, Wednesday, August 3, 1977

63-Across : Old oath

Author:
Alfio Micci
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J K Q W }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Alfio Micci has 91 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 11 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,217
Across
1
Round of applause : HAND
5
Number after "siete" : OCHO
9
Ease; subside : ABATE
14
Table fat : OLEO
15
Cartoonist Addams : CHAS
16
Eatery : DINER
17
Heavy on the bromides : PLATITUDINIZING
20
Swift's forte : SATIRE
21
Streetcar : TRAM
22
___ Canals : SOO
23
Turner or Cole : NAT
24
Towel word : HIS
25
Courteous bloke : GENT
26
Property divider, sometimes : HEDGE
29
Nun, for one : VESTAL
31
Ethiopian river : OMO
32
Diamond ___ : LIL
33
Lizard in a T. Williams title : IGUANA
37
People who think and act alike : BIRDSOFAFEATHER
41
Gilded metal : ORMOLU
42
Patriotic org. : SAR
43
Mine deposit : ORE
44
Slender poles : STILTS
46
Famed Minnesota medics : MAYOS
48
Weaken : FADE
51
Producer Hurok : SOL
52
Trouble : AIL
53
Past : AGO
54
Corn lily : IXIA
55
Russian peninsula : CRIMEA
59
Walks once taken by Truman : CONSTITUTIONALS
62
Figure of speech : TROPE
63
Old oath : EGAD
64
Selves : EGOS
65
Butterfly : SATYR
66
The sumacs : RHUS
67
Force : DINT
Down
1
Ale ingredient : HOPS
2
Nazimova : ALLA
3
Uncluttered : NEAT
4
Like many a granny : DOTING
5
Musical combo : OCTET
6
___ Teh, early Mao comrade : CHU
7
Triumphed, in a way : HADTHELASTLAUGH
8
Egyptian god of the underworld : OSIRIS
9
Take ___ view of (be skeptical) : ADIM
10
Show ___ : BIZ
11
Aromatic plant : ANISE
12
Fitted joint : TENON
13
Rye fungus : ERGOT
18
"Dies ___," ancient hymn : IRAE
19
Less cordial : NASTIER
25
Overeat : GLUT
26
Bindle stiff : HOBO
27
Eastern ruler : EMIR
28
Relative of a frat house : DORM
29
Lively, in Paris : VIF
30
___ Khan : AGA
32
French monarch (foe of Charles the Bold) : LOUISXI
34
Nautical cry : AHOY
35
Famed fiddler : NERO
36
"Scourge of mortals": Homer : ARES
38
Medicinal unit : DOSE
39
Precipitation: Abbr. : SLT
40
Scale notes : FAS
45
Dawdle : LOITER
46
Spanish author: 1879-1930 : MIRO
47
Straightened : ALINED
48
Data : FACTS
49
Marketplace : AGORA
50
"I ___ choose to run": Coolidge : DONOT
52
Amino and others : ACIDS
54
Roman road : ITER
56
Crèche figures : MAGI
57
N.C. college : ELON
58
Aide: Abbr. : ASST
60
Hari, for one : SPY
61
Letter after sigma : TAU

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 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.

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