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Mel Rosen
Mel Rosen

New York Times, Saturday, October 1, 1977

5-Across : Wherewithal

Author:
Mel Rosen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 Grid has duplicate clues.
Mel Rosen has 24 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 14 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,276
Across
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Golden ___ (riches) : CALF
5
Wherewithal : MEANS
10
Check : DAMP
14
Et ___ : ALII
15
Negate : ANNUL
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Table spread : OLEO
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Mountain lake : TARN
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One of the Ionian Islands : ZANTE
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Cut of meat : LOIN
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Pirates' lucre : TREASURE
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Terry and Burstyn : ELLENS
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Doe or Roe : NAME
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Humane org. : SPCA
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Man who got a "message" : GARCIA
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Divert attention : DISTRACT
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Bay window : ORIEL
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Director Forman : MILOS
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Salt : TAR
36
Danish money in Anglo-Saxon England : ORAS
37
Ex-Secretary of the Treasury : SIMON
38
Prefix with chute : PARA
39
River in Sweden : DAL
40
"Treasure Island" pirate : BONES
41
Raises one's hackles : RILES
42
Heart contractions : SYSTOLES
44
Adam Smith's "The ___ of Nations" : WEALTH
45
Shakespeare's "green sickness" : ENVY
46
Baseball's Speaker : TRIS
47
Word with Rio or Casa : GRANDE
50
Bills bearing Jackson's likeness : TWENTIES
54
Bird with a weird cry : LOON
55
Persian water wheel : NORIA
57
Advantage : EDGE
58
Osprey's cousin : ERNE
59
Money substitute : CHECK
60
Gather the fruit of labor : REAP
61
Watchful one : EYER
62
Coupling devices : YOKES
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Make one's ___ (earn money) : SALT
Down
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Suffragist Carrie Chapman : CATT
2
Resembling a wing : ALAR
3
Via Veneto money : LIRE
4
Pecuniary resources : FINANCES
5
Moola : MAZUMA
6
Finnish lake : ENARE
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Boleyn : ANNE
8
Fanatic : NUT
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Thinks it over : SLEEPSON
10
"Almighty" item : DOLLAR
11
Lily plant : ALOE
12
"___ Kampf" : MEIN
13
Nero's bridge : PONS
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Ride in a cat : SAIL
23
D-day craft : LCTS
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Fodder vats : SILOS
26
Merchandise : GOODS
27
Impressive show : ARRAY
28
Money in Iran : RIALS
29
Phone-booth money : DIMES
30
In any way : ATALL
31
Galley symbol : CARET
32
His purse, to Iago : TRASH
34
Between meeny and mo : MINEY
37
Moneyed condition : SOLVENCY
38
Money in Turkey, Cyprus, etc. : PIASTERS
40
Money substitute : BOND
41
Saddler's product : REIN
43
"Sawbuck" : TENNER
44
Inflicts : WREAKS
46
Two times : TWICE
47
Kind of club : GLEE
48
Actor Calhoun : RORY
49
Top rating : AONE
50
Hard journey : TREK
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Thinker's reward : IDEA
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All the same, in Paris : EGAL
53
Fall mo. : SEPT
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Cry of surprise : OHO

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 6 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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