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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Friday, September 6, 1985

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 65.0
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,086
Across
1
Thrall : SLAVE
6
Mince : CHOP
10
One of the Feds : TMAN
14
Fictional salesman : LOMAN
15
Gwen Verdon role : LOLA
16
Rumanian round dance : HORA
17
Letter-shaped fastener : UBOLT
18
Arab garments : ABAS
19
The old sod : ERIN
20
Hugo novel, with "The" : TOILERSOFTHESEA
23
Libido : EROS
24
Tangles : RAVELS
25
Sustained, with "up" : BUOYED
28
Aplomb : POISE
30
Ancient Hebrew priest's garb : EPHOD
31
Army supply center : BASE
32
Provender for Spend a Buck : OATS
36
Nun's cap : COIF
37
Moves in ripples : PURLS
38
Mass of Arctic ice : FLOE
39
Gordian ___ : KNOT
40
Nobelist Wallach : OTTO
41
Lexicographer's concern : USAGE
42
Rash : HASTY
44
Choice : OPTION
45
Tension : STRESS
48
Immunizing agents : SERA
49
Beaumont-Fletcher play : THEMAIDSTRAGEDY
55
Cartoonist Peter : ARNO
56
"___ Monday," Domino song : BLUE
57
River through Pakistan : INDUS
58
Printing process, for short : ROTO
59
Como coin : LIRA
60
Mackerel fisherman's need : SEINE
61
Nifty : KEEN
62
Undergrad's bugbear : EXAM
63
Organic compound : ESTER
Down
1
Hussy : SLUT
2
Timber wolf : LOBO
3
Mine, to Brigitte : AMOI
4
London novel, with "The" : VALLEYOFTHEMOON
5
Pierced : ENTERED
6
Style : CLASS
7
Bindlestiff : HOBO
8
Norway's patron saint : OLAF
9
Napoleon and others : PASTRIES
10
Keats poem : THEEVEOFSTAGNES
11
Samuel Finley Breese : MORSE
12
One of the Durants : ARIEL
13
Nursemaids : NANAS
21
Gat : ROD
22
Is afflicted by : HAS
25
Call's companion : BECK
26
Fairy tale's second word : UPON
27
Where the Miami flows : OHIO
28
Shower, for one : PARTY
29
Site of the Nobel Institute : OSLO
31
Laughingstock : BUTT
33
Russian range : ALAI
34
A neighbor of Ghana : TOGO
35
Homophone for scene : SEEN
37
"But with God all things are ___": Matt. 19:26 : POSSIBLE
41
Elevate : UPRAISE
43
___ Yoelson : ASA
44
"___ the ramparts ... " : OER
45
Utter : STARK
46
Sudden pang : THROE
47
Nice income : RENTE
48
Exhalation : STEAM
50
Year in the reign of Clotaire I : DLIX
51
Koran chapter : SURA
52
What diaskeuasts do : EDIT
53
A 1984 film : DUNE
54
Belgian canal connector : YSER

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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