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Hugh McElroy
Hugh McElroy

New York Times, Saturday, March 16, 1974

18-Across : ___ de combat

Author:
Hugh McElroy
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Min Word Len: 4, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
Hugh McElroy has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 8,981
Across
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Pond film : SCUM
5
Alphabet vanguard : ABCD
9
Plant deep : EMBED
14
Verboten : TABU
15
Wild plum : SLOE
16
Running knot : NOOSE
17
Pal for Andy : AMOS
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___ de combat : HORS
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Relative of a hex : CURSE
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Words written by a saintly man : IPATRICKASINNER
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" ... as those that will ___" : NOTSEE
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Insincere talk : CANT
25
Sea birds : ERNS
28
Lugubrious one : MOANER
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Sharp blow : WHACK
36
Seeker of Moby Dick : AHAB
38
City in Kansas : IOLA
39
Costly : HIGH
40
Irish river : AVOCA
41
Missile : NIKE
42
River to the Baltic : ODER
43
Lab-slide item : GERM
44
Cow barns, in England : BYRES
45
Breed of sheep : MERINO
47
___ trap for : SETA
49
Miss Teasdale : SARA
51
Sulking : INAPET
56
When green ties sell well : ONSTPATRICKSEVE
61
Knot again : RETIE
62
Skinny : LANK
63
Farm cart : WAIN
64
Lend ___ : ANEAR
65
Yorkshire river : AIRE
66
Deed: Fr. : ACTE
67
Comic Bruce : LENNY
68
Coaster : SLED
69
Tidy : NEAT
Down
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Color, as glass : STAIN
2
Argentine plain : CAMPO
3
German sub : UBOAT
4
"Have-to" chores : MUSTS
5
More pallid : ASHIER
6
Political group : BLOC
7
City, county or stopper : CORK
8
Cul-___ : DESAC
9
Los Angeles suburb : ENCINO
10
Like much of Erin's coast : MOUNTAINY
11
"___ Free" : BORN
12
Actual being : ESSE
13
Bambi, for one : DEER
21
Fume : REEK
22
Latin dance : SAMBA
26
Church part : NAVE
27
Toots and family : SHORS
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Rouge et ___ : NOIR
30
Actress Sommer : ELKE
31
Arctic explorer et al. : RAES
32
Pronoun : WHOM
33
___ nor hair : HIDE
34
Worker on radio tubes : AGER
35
Modern era : CHRISTIAN
37
Highest point : ACME
40
Market place : AGORA
44
Ground by a river : BANK
46
Table linens : NAPERY
48
Made clock sounds : TICKED
50
Strong one : ATLAS
52
Dam site : ASWAN
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Dove's quest : PEACE
54
Name for Perón's wife : EVITA
55
Dogma : TENET
56
Voiced : ORAL
57
Hawaiian goose : NENE
58
British gun : STEN
59
Marsh bird : RAIL
60
Pertaining to : INRE

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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