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Gurner
Gurner

New York Times, Tuesday, March 20, 1979

59-Across : Asian fiber

Author:
Gurner
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 310 (avg 1.66)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Gurner has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,724
Across
1
Cadence : LILT
5
Gets ready for an exam : PREPS
10
Irish port : COBH
14
Portico in Athens : STOA
15
White oak : ROBLE
16
Eye part : UVEA
17
Blondie's breadwinner : DAGWOODBUMSTEAD
20
Calms down : SEDATES
21
Utah range : UINTA
22
Electric-current regulator, for short : RHEO
23
Harold of old comics : TEEN
25
___ bicarbonate : SODIUM
28
Famed painter of N.M. ranch hands : HURD
29
Jeff Davis's org. : CSA
32
___ in one's bonnet : ABEE
33
Dictator's action against dissidents : PURGE
34
Capek's classic : RUR
35
Capp's strip within a strip : FEARLESSFOSDICK
39
Land mass: Abbr. : ISL
40
"I loved ___": G. Wither : ALASS
41
Ahab's father : OMRI
42
___ Moines : DES
43
Showy flower : LILY
44
Dirty kid in "Peanuts" : PIGPEN
46
Largest of the Marianas : GUAM
47
Tar's nightcap : GROG
48
Fragment : SCRAP
51
Life preserver : MAEWEST
54
Hans or Fritz : KATZENJAMMERKID
58
___ fixe : IDEE
59
Asian fiber : RAMIE
60
Character in Faulkner's "The Town" : EULA
61
Church rite : MASS
62
Better : AMEND
63
Wood strip : LATH
Down
1
Dangerous drug : LSD
2
"Play ___ It Lays": Didion : ITAS
3
Theater section : LOGE
4
More meretricious : TAWDRIER
5
For the time being : PROTEM
6
Western jamboree : RODEO
7
Wanes : EBBS
8
Prefix with perfect : PLU
9
Theol. institute : SEM
10
Local interruption on TV : CUTIN
11
Baker's station : OVEN
12
Throb : BEAT
13
"Old MacDonald ___ Farm" : HADA
18
Honolulu's island : OAHU
19
Leathers : SUEDES
23
Slabs of peat : TURFS
24
Therefore : ERGO
25
___ Rud, river in Iran : SAFID
26
Chubby : OBESE
27
Gives out cards : DEALS
28
Brazen female : HUSSY
29
Put a wave in : CRIMP
30
Bolivian co-capital : SUCRE
31
One of the Alans : ARKIN
33
Sacred poem : PSALM
36
"Queen of Latin Song" : LALUPE
37
Kazan : ELIA
38
Poetaster's product : DOGGEREL
44
College track, for short : PREMED
45
"___ Russia $1200": Bob Hope : IOWE
46
Looks intently : GAZES
47
Urchin : GAMIN
48
Glide along above a surface : SKIM
49
Each: Sp. : CADA
50
Highways: Abbr. : RTES
51
"Put the Blame on ___" : MAME
52
Arctic bird : SKUA
53
Pinball no-no : TILT
55
Blue Eagle letters : NRA
56
Tie-up : JAM
57
Morse code word : DAH

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

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