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Jordan S. Lasher
Jordan S. Lasher

New York Times, Tuesday, November 29, 1977

1-Across : Down-to-earth one

Author:
Jordan S. Lasher
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 27, Avg Word Len: 5.35, Missing: { G J Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 88, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Jordan S. Lasher has 60 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,335
Across
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Down-to-earth one : REALIST
8
Word in a letter : DEAREST
15
Permissive one : EXCUSER
16
One-sided : EXPARTE
17
Correspondence specialist? : DOCTOROFLETTERS
19
Iron-carbon alloy : STEEL
20
Air : LILT
21
Discharge : EMIT
22
Josh : KID
23
Gherkin's relative : DILL
25
Salad herb : ENDIVE
27
They cameth and wenteth : ICEMEN
29
River to the Seine : EURE
31
Thrice: Prefix : TER
32
Man-on-the-moon agcy. : NASA
33
Expense : COST
35
Prayer closings : AMENS
37
Trade : SWAP
39
Concerning : ASTO
41
Profundity : DEPTH
44
Parrot : ECHO
46
Khayyám : OMAR
50
Hogg or Dodo : IMA
51
2.54 centimeters : INCH
53
Star: Comb. form : ASTERO
55
He said: "What is truth?" : PILATE
57
Soup green : OKRA
59
Ethiopian prince : RAS
60
Digits in eleven : ONES
61
Subtly pervasive quality : AURA
63
Sop : BRIBE
65
C, D, E, I, R, T : LETTERSOFCREDIT
68
Cold-war palliative : ENTENTE
69
Most insightful : KEENEST
70
Music buffs' equipment : STEREOS
71
Musical movement : ANDANTE
Down
1
R.F.K. Stadium player : REDSKIN
2
Collection of strange plants : EXOTICA
3
Gives approval : ACCEDES
4
Guitar's predecessor : LUTE
5
Wagner's "Tristan und ___" : ISOLDE
6
To be: Sp. : SER
7
Dwarf of folklore : TROLL
8
Farmer's milieu : DELL
9
Early N.H. capital : EXETER
10
Likely : APT
11
X-___ : RATED
12
Recluse : EREMITE
13
Anagram for inverts : STRIVEN
14
Laboratory people : TESTERS
18
Office accumulation : FILES
24
Atahualpa was one : INCA
26
Shipshape : NEAT
28
Acorns on a forest floor : MAST
30
Beehive State : UTAH
34
Acronym for an oil-rich group : OPEC
36
Debatable : MOOT
38
Iota : WHIT
40
Go gliding : SOAR
41
TV antennas with pairs of equal rods : DIPOLES
42
Renowned : EMINENT
43
Board for Breughel : PALETTE
45
Brazilian band : CHORO
47
Silverware center near New Haven : MERIDEN
48
Certain Mideast scholar : ARABIST
49
Ornamental badge : ROSETTE
52
" ... so very ___ God": Paget : NEARTO
54
Wielded a sword : SABRED
56
Autumn bloomer : ASTER
58
"The Trial" author : KAFKA
62
Purposes : USES
64
Sand, in Sicilia : RENA
66
Dir. of Rennes from Paris : ENE
67
Time period: Abbr. : CEN

Answer summary:
2 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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