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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Monday, September 19, 1988

13-Down : Frenzied

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q V X }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 62.2 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,195
Across
1
Like the American eagle : BALD
5
Athirst : EAGER
10
Eastern church title : ABBA
14
"I cannot tell ___" : ALIE
15
Turned rigid with fear : FROZE
16
Topsoil : LOAM
17
Preprandial reading : BILLOFFARE
19
___ Domini : ANNO
20
Raiment : ATTIRE
21
Larch : TAMARACK
23
Entry : GATE
25
Close a deal : SEWUP
26
Smokers' gadgets : LIGHTERS
30
Acted violently : RAMPED
33
Incensed : IRATE
34
Long-limbed : RANGY
36
Cassowary's kin : EMU
37
Londoner's tax : CESS
38
Kind of knife : BOWIE
39
Street sign : STOP
40
Part of I.L.O. : INT
41
A suburb of Boston : SALEM
42
Beat, old style : SMITE
43
More pithy : TERSER
45
Intervals of rest : RESPITES
47
Sharif and others : OMARS
49
Prophet : SEER
50
Contrite : PENITENT
53
Clergyman or college bigwig : RECTOR
57
Organic compound : ENOL
58
Not à la carte : TABLEDHOTE
60
Composer Harold : ROME
61
Give instruction to : TRAIN
62
Nobelist Wiesel : ELIE
63
Secondhand : USED
64
Hair-raising : EERIE
65
Orlop, for one : DECK
Down
1
Ali chaser : BABA
2
Touched down : ALIT
3
Spirited song : LILT
4
Joys : DELIGHTS
5
Worn-out : EFFETE
6
Sandy's comment : ARF
7
Nanny : GOAT
8
Pound and Stone : EZRAS
9
Crop up again : REEMERGE
10
Call to arms, to Shakespeare : ALARUM
11
Waiter's friendly words : BONAPPETIT
12
Judge's bench : BANC
13
Frenzied : AMOK
18
Declaim : ORATE
22
Out of town : AWAY
24
Flynn of flicks : ERROL
26
Permissible : LICIT
27
A Forsyte : IRENE
28
Gourmet : GASTRONOME
29
Carpenter, at times : SAWER
31
Mug : EMOTE
32
Hoodwinks : DUPES
35
Southern French city : NIMES
38
Hair clasp : BARRETTE
39
Tarnished : SMIRCHED
41
Kind of belt : SEAT
42
Career : SPEED
44
Beamed : SMILED
46
Tranquil : SERENE
48
Noose : SNARE
50
Andean nation : PERU
51
A son of Seth : ENOS
52
Skier's transport : TBAR
54
Lacquered metalware : TOLE
55
Auricular : OTIC
56
Strong odor : REEK
59
XXVI doubled : LII

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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