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Norton Rhoades
Norton Rhoades

New York Times, Tuesday, January 25, 1977

53-Across : Ready to fire

Author:
Norton Rhoades
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 12, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Norton Rhoades has 24 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,027
Across
1
Sen. Hayakawa's headwear : TAM
4
Country singer Roy and family : ACUFFS
10
Stir-fry cookers : WOKS
14
Harem room : ODA
15
Informer : CANARY
16
Vasilievich : IVAN
17
Bents : TENDENCIES
19
Place to get corned beef : DELI
20
Away from the wind : ALEE
21
Brusque : CURT
22
Relative of 1 Across : BERET
23
1:30 A.M. doubles : LATELATESHOWS
26
Rake over the coals : PAN
27
Brings together : UNITES
30
Prepared : READY
33
Everybody's street : MAIN
36
Garroway : DAVE
37
Sea eagle : ERNE
38
Blue-ribbon classification : FIRST
39
Louis XIV's synonym for "moi" : ETAT
40
Quote : CITE
41
"Madam, I'm ___" : ADAM
42
Sprinter Jesse : OWENS
43
Confine : KEEPIN
45
U.S. Indian : OTO
46
It's usually a-winding : LONGLONGTRAIL
53
Ready to fire : ACOCK
55
One-sixth of a drachma : OBOL
56
Kind of storm : LINE
57
Ali's ___-a-dope : ROPE
58
Feigns : PRETENDSTO
60
"That's a great ___!" : IDEA
61
Williams's streetcar : DESIRE
62
Writer Deighton : LEN
63
Group: Abbr. : ASSN
64
Fly of Africa : TSETSE
65
Before : ERE
Down
1
Wreck a car completely : TOTAL
2
___ Rogers St. Johns : ADELA
3
Impressionist painter : MANET
4
Top honor : ACE
5
Dance : CANCAN
6
New book, sometimes : UNCUT
7
Laissez ___ : FAIRE
8
Guitar stops : FRETS
9
Method: Abbr. : SYS
10
Broad expanse : WIDEWIDEWORLD
11
Make too good a case : OVERSTATE
12
Cabbage : KALE
13
Huff : SNIT
18
Mariana Trench, e.g. : DEEPDEEPOCEAN
22
"___ appétit!" : BON
24
"___ of the Last Minstrel" : LAY
25
Fox or treasure : HUNT
28
Welsh name : EVAN
29
Collectors' goals : SETS
30
Consider, old style : RECK
31
Canal : ERIE
32
Pronghorns and elands : ANTELOPES
33
"___ pleasures and palaces" : MID
34
Parseghian : ARA
35
Belief : ISM
38
Phyllis's husband : FANG
42
Baseball Hall-of-Famer : OTT
44
___ a contract : INK
45
Leerers : OGLERS
47
Bodies of knowledge : LORES
48
Hefty : OBESE
49
Child's cry at play : NOTIT
50
Two on the ___ : AISLE
51
___ alia : INTER
52
Sierra ___ : LEONE
53
Solo : ARIA
54
Certain packages : CODS
58
West Coast clock setting : PDT
59
Born : NEE

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