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Jack Luzzatto
Jack Luzzatto

New York Times, Saturday, September 15, 1979

25-Across : Small bird

Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.40, Missing: { F J K W X Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 52.2
Jack Luzzatto has 293 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,903
Across
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"Get lost!" : SCRAM
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Garment often carrying a message : TSHIRT
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Artist's ruler : TSQUARE
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Teaser : BAITER
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" ... ___ spite": Hamlet : OCURSED
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Footstool : OTTOMAN
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Spoken : ORAL
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Simpleton : NINNY
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Was conveyed : RODE
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Chess champion: 1960–61 : TAL
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Spuds : TATERS
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Small bird : TIT
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Stunning stories : EPICS
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Ordinal number endings : THS
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Fragrant : OLENT
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Subtracted : DEDUCTED
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World problem : ENERGY
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Criterion for making a decision : GUIDELINE
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Perfumes or their bases : ATTARS
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Produce : GENERATE
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Video for a price : PAYTV
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Sky Altar : ARA
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Cast constantly in related roles : TYPED
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Prince Valiant's son : ARN
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Lawn tools : EDGERS
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In medias ___ : RES
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Each, in Ecuador : CADA
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Combat area : ARENA
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Home for pigeons : COTE
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Lightweight cotton : ETAMINE
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Put on a list for jury duty : IMPANEL
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Building wing : ALETTE
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Cowboys, at times : NOOSERS
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Got the drift : SENSED
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Dehisced : GAPED
Down
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Like the mean streets : SQUALID
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Spiral : CURL
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Title Selassie held : RAS
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Verbal negative contraction : ARENT
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Interposed between those opposed : MEDIATED
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"High steaks" : TBONES
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Nymph chaser : SATYR
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Popular favorite : HIT
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"Believe ___ Not": Ripley : ITOR
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Less immediate : REMOTER
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Off-season baseball action : TRADING
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Blew one's horn : TOOTED
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Escapade : SCRAPE
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Meshy : NETTY
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The ultimate : NTHDEGREE
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Shakespearean poem : SONNET
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Maestro Xavier : CUGAT
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Sinuous figure : SCURVE
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Suspicious : LEERY
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"___ the season ... " : TIS
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Berliner's article : EIN
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Erudition : LEARNING
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Without delay : APACE
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N.Z. evergreens : TARATAS
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Reformer executed for heresy in 1536 : TYNDALE
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Clad for cooking : APRONED
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Wobble : TEETER
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Lemons on wheels : EDSELS
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Seeing eye to eye : AGREED
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Poet painted by Giotto : DANTE
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Subject of a book by Margaret Mead: 1928 : SAMOA
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Preacher's last word : AMEN
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Job for Mason or Trent : CASE
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Porter's "___ De-lovely" : ITS
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Kind of corn or art : POP

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2 unique to this puzzle, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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