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Jack L. Steinhardt
Jack L. Steinhardt

New York Times, Friday, March 25, 1983

39-Across : Bottles for liquids

Author:
Jack L. Steinhardt
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F H J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 247 (avg 1.31)
Open Squares: 92, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has both left-right and up-down symmetry.
Jack L. Steinhardt has 39 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,190
Across
1
Formal nonacceptance : PROTEST
8
Egyptian amulets : SCARABS
15
Pull through : RECOVER
16
Military magazine : ARSENAL
17
Act of wanton violence : OUTRAGE
18
Ancient stone : ROSETTA
19
Snarl : GNAR
20
Pop the cork : UNCAP
22
Futile : VAIN
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___ Gauche, Paris : RIVE
24
Collars and jackets : ETONS
25
Whilom : ERST
26
___ away (corroded) : ATE
27
Tierra del Fuego native : ONA
28
Avant automne : ETE
29
Naval food server : MESSMAN
33
Ran : COURSED
37
John, to Jock : IAN
38
Bitterly ironic : WRY
39
Bottles for liquids : CARBOYS
43
Superficialities : VENEERS
47
Now, in Navarra : ORA
48
Flightless N.Z. goner : MOA
50
Nuptial footnote : NEE
51
Clears : NETS
53
Kind of diver : PEARL
55
Employ radar : SCAN
56
Short cotton fiber : NOIL
57
Proportional link : RATIO
58
Mountain passes : COLS
59
Famed Aquitaine name : ELEANOR
61
Oregon seaport : ASTORIA
63
Red pigment : CARMINE
64
Most imminent : NEAREST
65
Formed into braids : TRESSED
66
Adriatic coastal city : TRIESTE
Down
1
Martin Beck give-away : PROGRAM
2
Heal the breach : REUNITE
3
Harmonic combinations : OCTAVES
4
Braves' manager : TORRE
5
___ Marie Saint : EVA
6
Musical transition : SEGUE
7
Thomas Kean's headquarters : TRENTON
8
Name of three N.Y. lakes : SARANAC
9
Truncates : CROPS
10
Thickwit : ASS
11
Administrative town officer : REEVE
12
Red star of Scorpio : ANTARES
13
Fine, thin fabric : BATISTE
14
Gave a biased report : SLANTED
21
Flimflam : CON
30
Kinsman : SIB
31
Kuomintang opponent : MAO
32
Without limit : ANY
34
Become encumbered : OWE
35
Cinerary vessel : URN
36
Milieu for Holden Caulfield : RYE
39
Draw a parallel : CONNECT
40
Filled with interstices : AREOLAR
41
Trap for rodents: Fr. : RATIERE
42
Defamed : SMEARED
43
Mutation : VARIANT
44
Concert addenda : ENCORES
45
Pragmatic person : REALIST
46
Physically aware : SENSATE
49
Word with cake or grass : OAT
52
Voles : SLAMS
53
Disposed : PRONE
54
Schlimazel : LOSER
55
Censure : SCORE
60
Former capital of Serbia : NIS
62
Asian language : TAI

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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