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Jack Luzzatto
Jack Luzzatto

New York Times, Friday, November 4, 1977

19-Across : Part of a nucleus

Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 300 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Jack Luzzatto has 293 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,310
Across
1
Jalopy : HEAP
5
F.D.R. work agcy. : WPA
8
You can't take it with you : ESTATE
14
Bushwhacks : AMBUSHES
16
More intimate : NEARER
17
Fidgety : RESTLESS
18
Weird sense of familiarity : DEJAVU
19
Part of a nucleus : PROTON
20
Swedish seaport : UMEA
22
Name or fame, for short : REP
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High good humor : GLEE
24
Crawford from Philadelphia : BROD
25
Dog wagon : CART
26
Vendetta : FEUD
27
Hamlet's cries of disgust : FIES
28
Terrible trio : FATES
29
Air Force Base at Colorado Springs : ENT
30
Kindergarten trophy : GOLDSTAR
32
Time-defying : ETERNAL
34
Greek fliers with women's faces : HARPIES
38
Harvard football classic : YALEGAME
40
Obsessed aficionado : NUT
41
Scatter : STREW
44
Lose stamina : TIRE
45
Population center : CITY
46
Mars, to Zeus and friends : ARES
47
Flexed : BENT
48
Moderate : BATE
49
Morsel : BIT
50
Popular fancies : FADS
51
Goes to pieces : PANICS
53
Like an egg : OVULAR
55
Correct a text : EMENDATE
57
Ranting outburst : TIRADE
58
Sense-numbing : NARCOTIC
59
Smoothed wood : SANDED
60
Workout spot : GYM
61
Kind of parallelogram: Abbr. : RECT
Down
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Celestial strings : HARP
2
Newborn, as a nation : EMERGENT
3
Thoroughgoing : ABSOLUTE
4
Shot for the cup : PUTTED
5
History teacher's query : WHEN
6
Footlike part : PES
7
Confident : ASSURED
8
Ran its course : ENDED
9
"To ___ world in a grain of sand": Blake : SEEA
10
Dervish's cap : TAJ
11
Port for Noah : ARARAT
12
Tiber, to the Romans : TEVERE
13
Explodes : ERUPTS
15
Plum for gin : SLOE
21
Kaufman's collaborator : MOSSHART
24
Lodged, as soldiers : BILLETED
25
Nit-pick : CARP
26
Lawyer's retainer : FEE
27
Newborn colt or filly : FOAL
28
Subway token : FARE
30
Chew at : GNAW
31
Unexciting : TAME
33
Baker's dozen, possibly : RYES
35
Start : INITIATE
36
Having maximum fusibility : EUTECTIC
37
Untidy place : STY
39
Herb used as a medicine in China : GINSENG
41
Peasant shoes : SABOTS
42
Info one may not care to know : TRIVIA
43
Comeback : RETURN
45
Plain truth : CANDOR
47
Revealed : BARED
48
Judge's bench : BANC
50
Lose brilliance : FADE
51
Hair job : PERM
52
Religious group : SECT
54
"A Shropshire ___": Housman : LAD
56
Hawthorn : MAY

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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