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George Laczko
George Laczko

New York Times, Wednesday, January 30, 1963

20-Across : Balance sheet item.

Author:
George Laczko
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7 Grid has duplicate clues.
George Laczko has 37 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1963, The New York TimesNo. 4,940
Across
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On ___ (taking a risk): Slang. : SPEC
5
Resource. : ASSET
10
American Indian. : MAYA
14
Hawaiian port. : HILO
15
Section of a Vanguard. : STAGE
16
Black. : EBON
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Whirring sound: Var. : SKIR
18
European finish. : SERIN
19
Defeat. : ROUT
20
Balance sheet item. : EARNINGSFIGURE
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Classic villain. : IAGO
24
Choler. : IRE
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Equine ailment. : SPAVIN
28
Cash or stock. : DIVIDEND
33
Intrigue. : CABAL
34
Geometrical terms. : SINES
35
Rustic sound. : MOO
36
Bedouin's head cord. : AGAL
37
Merry times. : LARKS
38
Lots of money. : PILE
39
Rent. : LET
40
Contrary. : BALKY
41
Weapons of the pampas. : BOLAS
42
Buildings, grounds, etc. : PREMISES
44
Part of a jack. : DETENT
45
Business letter abbreviation. : ATT
46
Hour: Sp. : HORA
47
Designating certain stock transactions. : OVERTHECOUNTER
54
Detective: Slang. : DICK
55
"Without ___," Youmans tune. : ASONG
56
Norwegian king. : OLAV
58
Show fatuous fondness (with "on"). : DOTE
59
Appear bright and gay. : LAUGH
60
Island off Tuscany. : ELBA
61
Deer track. : SLOT
62
Finical. : FUSSY
63
Leave port. : SAIL
Down
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Curtain-going-up sounds. : SHS
2
Toll road. : PIKE
3
Roast pig dissertator. : ELIA
4
Competitor. : CORRIVAL
5
Designate. : ASSIGN
6
Shorthand worker, for short. : STENO
7
Famous puppeteer. : SARG
8
Auspices. : EGIS
9
Teller's count. : TENFIVES
10
Coalesced. : MERGED
11
Eastern name. : ABOU
12
___ Honor. : YOUR
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Part of A.M. : ANTE
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Tack. : NAIL
22
Spring bloom. : IRIS
25
Early American trophy. : SCALP
26
Bellboy, on occasion. : PAGER
27
Diminish. : ABATE
28
Daggers. : DIRKS
29
Black. : INKY
30
"South Pacific" hero. : EMILE
31
The "man without a country." : NOLAN
32
Biblical verb. : DOEST
34
Wash or short ___. : SALE
37
July through December. : LASTHALF
38
Commodity. : POTATOES
40
Nautical fastener. : BITT
41
City on the Aar. : BERN
43
Buyers' or sellers' ___. : MARKET
44
Pasty. : DOUGHY
46
Factories, in China or Japan. : HONGS
47
Advantage. : ODDS
48
Contrabass, for instance. : VIOL
49
Outside: Prefix. : ECTO
50
Rebecca's hairy son. : ESAU
51
Herb of northwestern U.S. : COUS
52
She: Sp. : ELLA
53
Nobel prize physicist. : RABI
57
French lace. : VAL

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

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