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Jordan S. Lasher
Jordan S. Lasher

New York Times, Tuesday, November 4, 1975

62-Across : Athrob

Author:
Jordan S. Lasher
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.24, Missing: { J Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
Jordan S. Lasher has 60 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,579
Across
1
Baseball cover : COWHIDE
8
Premiums : BONUSES
15
River of Hades : ACHERON
16
Of a radioactive element : URANOUS
17
Wall of Jerusalem : WAILING
18
Ecstasy : RAPTURE
19
Distress call : SOS
20
One of the hemispheres : EASTERN
22
Part of U.S.D.A.: Abbr. : DEPT
24
Put an ___ (stop) : ENDTO
25
Call it ___ : ADAY
28
Chop : AXE
29
Actor Ray : ALDO
30
Pudding ingredient : RAISIN
32
Kind of carriage : HORSELESS
35
Dwarf of folklore : GNOME
36
More frigid : ICIER
37
Robin Hood, e.g. : THIEF
39
Actor Sal : MINEO
41
Abel, to Eve : SECONDSON
45
Big champagne bottle : MAGNUM
47
Locomotive sound : CHUG
48
Equal: Prefix : ISO
49
Famed exile spot : ELBA
50
"___ Is Born" : ASTAR
52
Part of K.K.K. : KLUX
53
Construction : ERECTOR
55
Garden tool worker : HOE
56
States of excitement : DELIRIA
58
Erudite : LEARNED
62
Athrob : PULSING
63
Intertwined : ENLACED
64
Ship-loading duty : LASTAGE
65
Pitting devices : STONERS
Down
1
Crow's cry : CAW
2
Wood sorrel : OCA
3
Annual plant of California : WHISPERINGBELLS
4
Spartan serf : HELOT
5
Eye part : IRIS
6
___ Quixote : DON
7
Begets : ENGENDERS
8
Fly apart : BURST
9
Speechifier : ORATOR
10
Scruff : NAPE
11
Disobedient, as a pet : UNTRAINED
12
Song from "The Graduate" : SOUNDSOFSILENCE
13
Continent: Abbr. : EUR
14
Compass point : SSE
21
Stirs : ADOS
22
Code signal : DAH
23
Outside: Prefix : EXO
24
She, in France : ELLE
26
Zero in on : AIM
27
Chemical ending : YNE
29
The vowels : AEIOU
31
Mellowing, as wine : AGING
33
Certain screenwriter : SCENARIST
34
Louisiana parish : STCHARLES
38
Witching, for one : HOUR
39
French title : MME
40
Adjective suffix : IAL
42
Prefix for plasm : ECTO
43
Columbus campus : OSU
44
Night goddess : NOX
46
Clubbing : MACING
51
Put on : STAGE
52
Moslem holy book : KORAN
54
Silkworm : ERIA
55
Circle of light : HALO
56
Graduate's certificate: Abbr. : DPL
57
U.S.A., in France : EUA
59
Doorway: Abbr. : ENT
60
Poetic contraction : EER
61
Dentist's degree : DDS

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 8 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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