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Jordan S. Lasher
Jordan S. Lasher

New York Times, Friday, November 10, 1978

40-Across : Storied pachyderm

Author:
Jordan S. Lasher
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.36, Missing: { F J Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 83, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Jordan S. Lasher has 60 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,594
Across
1
Swiss painter: 1879-1940 : KLEE
5
Tallow sources : SUETS
10
Porsena : LARS
14
Ensuing : NEXT
15
Visual : OPTIC
16
Invention seed : IDEA
17
Nevil Shute book (with 34 and 52 Across, a summer observation) : ONTHEBEACH
19
Ray Guy specialty : PUNT
20
Last place, in sports : BASEMENT
21
"Purple Dust" playwright : OCASEY
23
Incursion : RAID
24
Dean Martin, frequently : ROASTER
25
Open to view : PATENT
28
Medical measurement : PULSE
29
Violinist Stern : ISAAC
30
Tapioca source : SALEP
31
Past : AGO
34
Sky formation : THELITTLEDIPPER
37
Rhode Island Red : HEN
38
Whittled : PARED
39
Stage designer Bernstein : ALINE
40
Storied pachyderm : BABAR
41
Genuflects : KNEELS
42
Without being spoken : TACITLY
45
Black-fin snapper : SESI
46
Orbital extremity : APOGEE
47
Line drive : SCREAMER
51
"The King and I" sound effect : GONG
52
Loses purposely : TAKESADIVE
54
Yen : URGE
55
"Mother ___": Kipling : OMINE
56
Zeno of ___ : ELEA
57
Rigel or Altair : STAR
58
Hamburger serving : PATTY
59
Mail : SEND
Down
1
Handle of a sort : KNOB
2
Yakutsk's river : LENA
3
Second phones: Abbr. : EXTS
4
Heavenly : ETHEREAL
5
"Amen!" : SOBEIT
6
Bowl over : UPEND
7
Coup d'___ : ETAT
8
Nervous twitch : TIC
9
Like a Ph.D. : SCHOOLED
10
Digestive enzyme : LIPASE
11
Parched : ADUST
12
Actress Taylor : RENEE
13
Wanton deity : SATYR
18
Unfetter : EMANCIPATE
22
Sight from Baku : CASPIANSEA
24
Like some paper : RULED
25
Crux : PITH
26
She wrote "Moths" : ASHE
27
Captured, to Cowper : TAEN
28
Less colorful : PALER
30
Digress : STRAY
31
" ... baked in ___" : APIE
32
D.D.E. was one : GENL
33
Smeltery fodder : ORES
35
Type of photograph : TABLETOP
36
The seven daughters of Atlas : PLEIADES
40
Two, vis-à-vis one : BIGGER
41
Coarse woolen cloth : KERSEY
42
Iberian river : TAGUS
43
To the left, at sea : APORT
44
Line dance : CONGA
45
Perfume : SCENT
47
Short parody : SKIT
48
Miss's proverbial equivalent : MILE
49
Balanced : EVEN
50
Have an audition : READ
53
Candlenut tree : AMA

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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