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Chet Currier
Chet Currier

New York Times, Thursday, September 6, 1979

37-Across : Well-groomed customer's dessert request?

Author:
Chet Currier
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 46, Avg Word Len: 4.59, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 57, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 13.6
Chet Currier has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 6 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,894
Across
1
Saroyan's "My Name Is ___" : ARAM
5
Refuse to sign a bill : VETO
9
Foray on the refrigerator : RAID
13
Prepare apples for baking : CORE
14
Certain collar : ETON
15
Of a continent: Prefix : EURO
16
Realigns restaurant furniture? : TURNSTHETABLES
19
Narrow victory margin : ONEUP
20
Caesar or Waldorf : SALAD
21
Kin of blvds. : RDS
22
Nonsense : ROT
25
Butter unit : PAT
26
Word with bus or bat : BOY
29
Fast flier : SST
30
Taj Mahal site : AGRA
32
Calm : SERENE
34
Takes an oath : SWEARS
36
Nice summers : ETES
37
Well-groomed customer's dessert request? : APPLEPIEORDER
41
Hair style : AFRO
42
Does a restaurant job : SERVES
43
___ d'hôtel : MAITRE
46
Attachment by a banker : LIEN
47
Flat failure : DUD
50
Escort's offering : ARM
51
"___ to the West Wind" : ODE
53
Mark of a careless diner : ORT
54
Big bird : EMU
55
Nucleus : CADRE
57
Wyatt and kinfolk : EARPS
59
Order to a slow-moving counterman? : HURRYUPANDWAIT
63
Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1958 : AGEE
64
Prefix for meter or winkle : PERI
65
Milano money : LIRE
66
Outbuilding : SHED
67
Shade of blue : TEAL
68
Hill vehicle : SLED
Down
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People in parts : ACTORS
2
Bar orders : ROUNDS
3
Run in : ARREST
4
Bill of fare : MENU
5
Hero of "All Things Bright ... " : VET
6
Biblical suffix : ETH
7
Digits : TOES
8
"Beer ___" : ONTAP
9
Give back, as a discount : REBATE
10
___ lang syne : AULD
11
Anger : IRE
12
Square dancer's back : DOS
17
Urban ___ (city expansion) : SPRAWL
18
Word of woe : ALAS
23
Curved molding : OGEE
24
Carriages : TRAPS
26
___ noire : BETE
27
Lulu : ONER
28
Word to a "darling daughter" : YES
31
"Tempest" sprite : ARIEL
33
N.L. team : REDS
34
Tablecloth no-no : SPOT
35
Comic like Chaplin : SERIO
37
Distant : AFAR
38
Decorous : PRIM
39
Eggs-order word : OVER
40
Let : RENTED
41
Doctors' org. : AMA
44
"The Mouse That ___" : ROARED
45
Hazardous current : EDDY
47
Stop the iron horse : DERAIL
48
Diamond authority : UMPIRE
49
Sprinkled, in a way : DUSTED
52
Break out : ERUPT
55
American Indian : CREE
56
Fencing piece : EPEE
58
Punching tools : AWLS
59
Owns : HAS
60
Cry of disgust : UGH
61
Football's Parseghian : ARA
62
Zero : NIL

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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