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Carl H. Winston
Carl H. Winston

New York Times, Monday, January 21, 1974

62-Across : Movie light

Author:
Carl H. Winston
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { F Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Carl H. Winston has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 8,927
Across
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Smeltery leavings : SLAG
5
Pillages : LOOTS
10
Carry on : WAGE
14
Kangaroo feature : TAIL
15
___ nous : ENTRE
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Hamilton, for short : ALEX
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Strong hint : INDICATION
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Straight : NEAT
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Observed the seventh day : RESTED
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Anti-fly weapons : SWATTERS
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Asian weight : TAEL
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Old promenade : STOA
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German china city : DRESDEN
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Shade of pale green : ONDINE
33
Poet Marianne : MOORE
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Isle of romance : CAPRI
36
Relative : SON
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Responsibility : ONUS
38
Slip-ons : SHOES
39
Lump : CLOD
40
Scottish explorer : RAE
41
Musical subject : THEMA
42
Fontaine and Crawford : JOANS
43
Dempsey's successor : TUNNEY
45
Welcome words from a bartender : ITSONME
47
Slippery ones : EELS
49
Slash : SLIT
50
Result of power shortage : BROWNOUT
54
Make improvements : ENRICH
58
Opera role : AIDA
59
In a praiseworthy way : CREDITABLY
61
Souvenir of a fracas : SCAR
62
Movie light : KLIEG
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Attired : CLAD
64
Polio name : SALK
65
Slender one : SYLPH
66
Newcastle's river : TYNE
Down
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Move slightly : STIR
2
Bowling area : LANE
3
Lends support : AIDS
4
Sparkles : GLITTERS
5
Spaced out, as newspaper lines : LEADED
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Can. province : ONT
7
Bustard genus : OTIS
8
Believes, old style : TROWS
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Son of 43 Across et al. : SENATORS
10
Classified item : WANTAD
11
On the safer side : ALEE
12
Equipment : GEAR
13
Phone adjuncts: Abbr. : EXTS
18
___ fire : CEASE
22
Little Antoinette : TONI
24
Milk, in Madrid : LECHE
26
Vienna's river, to natives : DONAU
27
City on the Seine : ROUEN
28
Ruth's mother-in-law : NAOMI
30
Eastern faith : ISLAM
31
"___ but you" : NOONE
32
Goals : ENDS
33
Sahl : MORT
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Fuels : PEATS
38
Shakespearean man and others : SHYLOCKS
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Shrink : CONTRACT
41
___ age : TEEN
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Clip ___ : JOINT
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Neighbor of New York : NEWARK
46
Vehicle : SLEIGH
48
Bad-tempered : SURLY
50
Type of voice : BASS
51
Wealthy: Sp. : RICA
52
Early land holding : ODAL
53
Linden tree : TEIL
55
Adverbial suffix : IBLY
56
Social unit : CLAN
57
Stevenson's Mr. : HYDE
60
Travel-board abbr. : DEP

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 8 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.

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