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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

New York Times, Thursday, January 17, 1980

51-Across : Unattractive

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { F J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 313 (avg 1.64)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,027
Across
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Writer Wister : OWEN
5
Thank-you-___ : MAAM
9
Open patios : ATRIA
14
Togo's capital : LOME
15
Radamès's love : AIDA
16
Ginza signs : NEONS
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Roman boy : PUER
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Pop's pappy : GRANDDADDY
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Put on : ENROBE
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Girl in a Cohan song : MARY
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Have a look : EYE
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Poet Thomas et al. : DYLANS
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Lout : GAWK
28
Feature of many a living room : PICTUREWINDOW
33
Wee, as a bairn : SMA
35
Moolah : KALE
36
" ... ravell'd ___ of care": Macbeth : SLEAVE
37
Hebrew letters : KAPHS
39
Org. serving servicemen : USO
41
Founder of Pravda : LENIN
42
Visionary goals : IDEALS
44
City of Rumania : IASI
46
Proscribed pesticide : DDT
47
Beautician's specialty : PERMANENTWAVE
50
Part of the Occident: Abbr. : SPAM
51
Unattractive : HOMELY
53
A DiMaggio : DOM
56
Decorous : PRIM
58
Legendary Gaelic poet : OSSIAN
60
China's approximate population : ONEBILLION
63
Archconservative : TORY
64
___ à clef : ROMAN
65
As to : INRE
66
Leaves off : ENDS
67
Hatrack feature : PRONG
68
O.T. book : EXOD
69
Sum, ___, fui : ESSE
Down
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Wine flask : OLPE
2
Trauma : WOUND
3
Abrasive : EMERYPAPER
4
Oil from orange flowers : NEROLI
5
Purplish red : MAGENTA
6
Make known : AIR
7
Furniture style : ADAM
8
Run : MANAGE
9
Singer from Wall Lake, Iowa : ANDYWILLIAMS
10
"___ for Two" : TEA
11
Took the train : RODE
12
___ 500 : INDY
13
"___ sow, so ... " : ASYE
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Ties : DRAWS
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Effusive display of approval : BACKSLAPPING
25
Pacific sea : SULU
27
Crook in a branch : KNEE
29
Gugal or sandarac : RESIN
30
Cosmopolitan weeds : DANDELIONS
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"Metamorphoses" poet : OVID
32
Left : WENT
33
Omit : SKIP
34
Compelled : MADE
38
Bad actors : HAMS
40
___ of allegiance : OATH
43
Traffic tie-up : SNARL
45
Passed out : SWOONED
48
A Dionne : EMILIE
49
Dickey : VESTEE
52
Compounds : YARDS
53
Village, Afrikaner style : DORP
54
___ about : ONOR
55
Exec's note : MEMO
57
Pert girl : MINX
59
Wall St. fixture : NYSE
61
Taboo : BAN
62
Spanish gold : ORO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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