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Albert E. Lytle
Albert E. Lytle

New York Times, Tuesday, February 3, 1981

61-Across : "Give us the ___ ... ": Churchill

Author:
Albert E. Lytle
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 4.89, Missing: { J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Albert E. Lytle has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,410
Across
1
Theme for a sermon : TEXT
5
Police alerts, for short : APBS
9
Spice : MACE
13
Finished : OVER
14
Quell, as fears : ALLAY
15
Affirm : AVER
16
Short skirt, for short : MINI
17
Raises : REARS
18
Expensive : DEAR
19
Romeo-Juliet secret : ELOPEMENT
21
Succinct : TERSE
22
Grenoble father : PERE
23
Rend : TEAR
25
Spread to dry : TED
26
Tough tree : ASH
28
Supplement : ADDENDUM
31
Clodhopper : BOOR
33
Increase : ADDITION
36
Protein in milk and eggs : ALBUMIN
39
Felix Adler's ___ Culture movement : ETHICAL
41
Champion : DEFENDER
43
"___ Lovely Day Today," 1950 song : ITSA
44
Argumentative : FORENSIC
47
Devoured : ATE
48
Opposite of fore : AFT
51
Tuesday : WELD
52
___ Kingman, noted watercolorist : DONG
54
Sholokhov's "And Quiet ___ the Don" : FLOWS
56
Overbearing : IMPERIOUS
60
Ruckus : TODO
61
"Give us the ___ ... ": Churchill : TOOLS
62
Within: Comb. form : ENTO
63
Church calendar : ORDO
64
Assault : ONSET
65
Site of the tomb of William the Conqueror : CAEN
66
Capitol Hill responses : NAYS
67
This, in Taxco : ESTA
68
Otherwise : ELSE
Down
1
Weighty volume : TOME
2
Apt anagram for vile : EVIL
3
One who fears foreigners : XENOPHOBE
4
Rubbish : TRIPE
5
Away from the ocean's winds : ALEE
6
Did some sowing : PLANTED
7
They should be good mixers : BARTENDERS
8
An acre has 4,840: Abbr. : SYS
9
Produced : MADE
10
Ward off : AVERT
11
Discontinue : CEASE
12
Miscalculated : ERRED
14
Kind of band : ARMED
20
Horse and buggy, e.g. : ERA
21
Veracity : TRUTH
24
Mine access : ADIT
26
Arabian garment : ABA
27
Convinced : SOLD
29
Flowering weeds : DANDELIONS
30
Year in the reign of Henry II of Germany : MIII
32
Lace collar : RUFF
34
Eight-sided : OCTAGONAL
35
First to draw Santa as he looks today : NAST
37
Grimalkin's complaints : MEOWS
38
Concerning : INRE
40
New Guinea seaport : LAE
42
Adjective for a caboose : ENDMOST
45
That is: Lat. : IDEST
46
Heart : COR
48
"___ Water," Burns poem : AFTON
49
Ecologist's concern : FLORA
50
Hot drink containing alcohol : TODDY
53
Relative : NIECE
55
Courts : WOOS
57
Solicitation : PLEA
58
Shoshoneans : UTES
59
Unit of loudness : SONE
61
Low digit : TOE

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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