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Jack Luzzatto
New York Times, Saturday, September 29, 1979
Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.62, Missing: { H J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 263 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 55.9
Jack Luzzatto has 293 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 T | 2 R | 3 A | 4 V | 5 I | 6 S | 7 O | 8 F | 9 F | 10 E | 11 R | ||||
12 E | R | E | M | I | T | E | 13 N | I | E | P | A | 14 S | ||
15 D | E | F | E | N | S | I | 16 V | E | D | R | I | V | E | 17 R |
18 D | A | R | N | S | 19 D | A | L | E | 20 C | A | N | A |
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21 I | D | A | S | 22 C | E | C | I | L | 23 G | I | G |
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24 E | L | I | 25 A | L | L | A | N | 26 S | 27 T | E | L | E |
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28 S | E | N | 29 O | R | A | 30 T | E | 31 E | T | E | R | E | D |
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32 R | E | P | 33 A | I | R | M | A | N | ||||||
34 S | 35 A | 36 R | G | A | S | S | O | 37 I | T | S | 38 E | 39 L | 40 F |
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41 O | B | E | Y | S | 42 C | N | 43 O | T | E | 44 T | A | R |
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45 P | E | S | 46 P | E | E | N | S | 47 R | O | T | I |
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48 O | L | E | 49 O | 50 I | N | R | E | 51 L | I | N | E | N |
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52 R | E | C | K | 53 L | E | S | S | D | 54 R | I | V | I | N | G |
55 S | T | R | A | T | O | 56 A | U | R | E | A | T | E |
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57 S | A | T | Y | R | 58 Y | E | A | R | N | S |
© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,917
Across
1
Alamo commander : TRAVIS
7
Proposal : OFFER
12
Loner by choice : EREMITE
13
Valuable East Indian trees : NIEPAS
15
Careful motorist : DEFENSIVEDRIVER
18
Makes patches : DARNS
19
Hill's partner : DALE
20
Town of water-into-wine miracle : CANA
21
One of Jason's Argonauts : IDAS
22
De Mille of film fame : CECIL
23
Band date : GIG
24
Clockmaker Terry : ELI
25
Poe name : ALLAN
26
Column : STELE
28
Spanish wife : SENORA
30
Wobbled : TEETERED
32
Mr. Fixit : REPAIRMAN
34
Sea of the Bermuda Triangle : SARGASSO
37
The very thing : ITSELF
41
Comes to heel : OBEYS
42
$100 bill : CNOTE
44
Sticky liquid : TAR
45
Foot, to Fabius : PES
46
Flattens by hammering : PEENS
47
French roast : ROTI
48
Kitchen spread : OLEO
50
Concerning : INRE
51
Material from flax : LINEN
52
Good reason for a citation : RECKLESSDRIVING
55
Prefix for sphere : STRATO
56
Golden hued : AUREATE
57
Lecherous man : SATYR
58
Hankers : YEARNS
Down
1
Pedal : TREADLE
2
Desist : REFRAIN
3
Closing words : AMENS
4
Sauterne and Beaujolais : VINS
5
"Beauty is ___ own excuse for being" : ITS
6
Beer glass : SEIDEL
7
Youngman gag : ONELINER
8
He ousted Fulgencio : FIDEL
9
___-de-lance : FER
10
Heroic : EPIC
11
Despoiler : RAVAGER
12
Small whirls : EDDIES
14
Like some nonagenarians : SENILE
16
Groups in summer jams : VACATIONERS
17
Vented fury : RAGED
22
Sounds from claques : CLAPS
25
Districts : AREAS
26
Kind of highway : STATE
27
Halves of a score : TENS
29
Specialty of Dionysus : ORGY
31
Issues : EMITS
33
Steep funicular railway : ASCENSOR
34
Deep sleep : SOPOR
35
White poplars : ABELES
36
Pares surgically : RESECTS
38
British schoolboy : ETONIAN
39
Undeveloped fingerprints : LATENTS
40
Surrey topper : FRINGE
43
Sometime : ONEDAY
46
Devoutness : PIETY
47
Moon or Spoon : RIVER
49
Gumbo vegetable : OKRA
51
Money in Milan : LIRA
53
Long. partner : LAT
54
Muse regretfully : RUE
Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 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.