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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Monday, September 23, 1991

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Grid flow: 33.1
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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B
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,294
Across
1
Scored on a serve : ACED
5
Cheer : RAH
8
Takes a breather : RESTS
13
Explorer Vasco da ___ : GAMA
14
Gen. R. ___ : ELEE
16
Diplomat Root : ELIHU
17
Mashie : IRON
18
Kind of party : STAG
19
Gdansk natives : POLES
20
Marquand novel, with "The" : LATEGEORGEAPLEY
23
Printemps follower : ETE
24
Orient : EAST
25
Foulard : TIE
26
Buddy : PAL
27
Atomic physicist Niels ___ : BOHR
29
___ Plaines, Ill. : DES
32
Drudgery : LABOR
35
A neighbor of Kuwait : IRAN
36
German philosopher : KANT
37
Forster novel : APASSAGETOINDIA
40
Interlock : MESH
41
Flightless birds of yore : MOAS
42
All set : READY
43
Question : ASK
44
Scrapple ingredient : PORK
45
Slapstick staple : PIE
46
Old French coin : SOU
47
Weeding tools : HOES
49
Lager's relative : ALE
52
Hugo novel, with "The" : TOILERSOFTHESEA
57
Wading bird : EGRET
58
Stringed instrument : LUTE
59
Encircle : RING
60
Rice or Gantry : ELMER
61
North Sea feeder : YSER
62
Post : MAIL
63
Substantial : MEATY
64
Pennsylvania trio : ENS
65
Actress Meara : ANNE
Down
1
Nimble : AGILE
2
Jeweler's weight : CARAT
3
Sentimentalize : EMOTE
4
Odense native : DANE
5
Close tightly again : RESEAL
6
Choir section : ALTOS
7
G. B. Shaw play : HEARTBREAKHOUSE
8
Overhaul : REPAIR
9
Wed in haste : ELOPE
10
Window part : SILL
11
Poet's pronoun : THEE
12
___-Q (dance step) : SUSY
15
___ on (goad) : EGG
21
Toothed wheels : GEARS
22
Race: Comb form. : ETHNO
26
Elegant, in London : POSH
28
Fodder for Hansel : OATS
29
Art cult : DADA
30
Novelist Bagnold : ENID
31
Sojourn : STAY
32
Tibetan monk : LAMA
33
Gibbons : APES
34
Lie in the sun : BASK
35
Stravinsky : IGOR
36
Limb joint : KNEE
38
Love affair : AMOUR
39
___ Free State : IRISH
44
Shelley's forte : POETRY
45
Roberta ___, famed soprano : PETERS
46
Icy precipitation : SLEET
48
Repeatedly : OFTEN
49
Mongol, for one : ASIAN
50
Russian leader in 1917 : LENIN
51
Golfer's feat : EAGLE
52
Swarm : TEEM
53
Stare flirtatiously : OGLE
54
"___ la Douce" : IRMA
55
Cunning : SLY
56
Writer Bombeck : ERMA

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