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Betty Leary
Betty Leary

New York Times, Thursday, March 16, 1978

41-Across : Swerves

Author:
Betty Leary
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Betty Leary has 7 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,442
Across
1
Distort : WARP
5
Trattoria offering : PASTA
10
Upper edge of a hollow object : BRIM
14
Chinese isinglass : AGAR
15
Trod the boards : ACTED
16
Used a rickshaw : RODE
17
Watchmaker's transactions? : SECONDHANDDEALS
20
Lever : PRY
21
Arabian Sea gulf : ADEN
22
Goes slowly and laboriously : WADES
23
Frigid : COLD
24
Worms, at times : BAIT
26
Complain : GROUSE
29
Townsman : BURGHER
32
"He that ___ may read": Tennyson : RUNS
33
Mother of Isaac : SARAH
34
French pronoun : LUI
36
"Not ___" (no deal on the lecture circuit?) : ONSPEAKINGTERMS
40
Like Willie Winkie : WEE
41
Swerves : VEERS
42
Birthplace, in Denmark, of Jacob Riis : RIBE
43
Guided : STEERED
45
Tumult : UPROAR
47
Kind of machine : SLOT
48
Responsibility : ONUS
49
Concerned about trifles : PICKY
52
Coarse file : RASP
53
Health club : SPA
56
"No ___" (broken marionettes?) : STRINGSATTACHED
60
Lions or Tigers : TEAM
61
Young lover : ROMEO
62
Misanthrope's emotion : HATE
63
Feathered palm : SAGO
64
Line of cliffs : SCARP
65
March 15 : IDES
Down
1
Yellow jacket : WASP
2
Roman field : AGER
3
Risqué : RACY
4
N.B.A. player : PRO
5
Old-school means of discipline : PADDLE
6
Felt compassion : ACHED
7
Jazz maestro Kenton : STAN
8
XX - X : TEN
9
Use an abacus : ADD
10
Life; vitality : BREATH
11
Kerouac's milieu : ROAD
12
Unemployed : IDLE
13
Jumble : MESS
18
Greek shrine : NAOS
19
Harry's successor : DWIGHT
23
Point on the crown of a tooth : CUSP
24
Oscar winner in 1975 : BURNS
25
First of a Kipling trio : ARAG
26
Increase : GROW
27
Poems with mystical meanings : RUNES
28
Beginning : ONSET
29
"Father of television" : BAIRD
30
California town : ELRIO
31
Cugat specialty : RUMBA
33
Trapshooting sport : SKEET
35
Elbe tributary in Czechoslovakia : ISER
37
Soprano Lear of the Met : EVELYN
38
Prefix with plane or gram : AERO
39
Missteps : ERRS
44
Nanook of the North : ESKIMO
45
Remove a plug : UNSTOP
46
Between larva and imago : PUPA
48
Horse opera : OATER
49
Sounds seeking attention : PSTS
50
Virginia willow : ITEA
51
Tor : CRAG
52
Hindu mythological hero : RAMA
53
Hudson river fish : SHAD
54
Rozelle of pro football : PETE
55
Snack-bar drinks : ADES
57
Athenians: Abbr. : GRS
58
Org. : SOC
59
Ho ___ Minh : CHI

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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