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Kenneth Haxton
Kenneth Haxton

New York Times, Saturday, January 21, 1978

14-Across : Daft

Author:
Kenneth Haxton
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Kenneth Haxton has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,388
Across
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Long, swinging stride : LOPE
5
Author Gardner : ERLE
9
Was indebted : OWED
13
"The Flowers of ___": Baudelaire : EVIL
14
Daft : LOONY
16
"The Prisoner of Zenda" author : HOPE
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"Light in August" author : WILLIAMFAULKNER
20
White House initials : DDE
21
Nutrition regimen : DIET
22
Cargo placer : LOADER
23
City near Lake Tahoe : RENO
24
Color again : REDYE
25
Pyknic : OBESE
27
Venus de ___ : MILO
28
Monogram of "The Sage of Concord" : RWE
31
Sacred image : ICON
32
Agent: Suffix : ATOR
33
"The Brave Bulls" author : LEA
34
"This Side of Paradise" author, familiarly : SCOTTFITZGERALD
39
Aquatic bird : AUK
40
White-tailed flier : ERNE
41
Tolkien's tree herders : ENTS
42
F.D.R. measure : NRA
43
Boy from Barcelona : NINO
44
Beau Brummell : DANDY
46
Eggs, to Aussies : GOOGS
48
Zona ___, U.S. writer : GALE
49
Brown pigment : SIENNA
51
Poet Teasdale : SARA
52
Inquire : ASK
55
"To Have and Have Not" author : ERNESTHEMINGWAY
58
Down: Prefix : CATA
59
Like Poe's tales : EERIE
60
Oil power : IRAN
61
Dick or Schick : TEST
62
"Death in Venice" author : MANN
63
Governess in a Brontë novel : EYRE
Down
1
Lascivious : LEWD
2
"Metamorphoses" author : OVID
3
Atomic reactor : PILE
4
Added wing : ELL
5
Lily maid of Astolat : ELAINE
6
One of the Montagues : ROMEO
7
Attic : LOFT
8
Spanish queen : ENA
9
Gershwin musical: 1926 : OHKAY
10
Lewis Carroll's dreamworld : WONDERLAND
11
Sword : EPEE
12
Earl ___ Biggers : DERR
15
Christmas adjunct : YULELOG
18
Bad time for Caesar : IDES
19
Mary Shelley novel : LODORE
23
Collector's item : RENT
24
Comedy team of brothers : RITZ
25
Happen : OCCUR
26
Certain salesmen : BOOKAGENTS
27
San ___, Calif. : MATEO
29
"Delta Wedding" author : WELTY
30
St. Louis bridge : EADS
31
"God ___ Englishman": Delderfield : ISAN
35
Joining pins : TENONS
36
"There is no ___ like a book": Dickinson : FRIGATE
37
Tabard and Wayside : INNS
38
Story by Chateaubriand : RENE
44
Where Keats placed Cortez : DARIEN
45
Author Paton : ALAN
47
___ a time (singly) : ONEAT
48
Urchin : GAMIN
49
Mennonites, e.g. : SECT
50
"Dies ___" : IRAE
51
Evening, in Roma : SERA
52
Out of kilter : AWRY
53
German industrial area : SAAR
54
"Cappy Ricks" author : KYNE
56
Turned edge of a garment : HEM
57
" ... the giftie ___ us": Burns : GIE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 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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