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Jack Wherry
Jack Wherry

New York Times, Monday, March 29, 1976

40-Across : Joins in the crowd

Author:
Jack Wherry
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 80, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.72, Missing: { F J Q }, Scrabble score: 339 (avg 1.79)
Open Squares: 59, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Jack Wherry has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,725
Across
1
Old English letters : ETHS
5
Like half a team's games : AWAY
9
Add a touch of spirits : LACE
13
Morality of a society : ETHOS
14
Lemon's kin : LIME
15
Jet black : ONYX
16
What happens annually at Capistrano : THESWALLOWSCOME
19
Confederates, for short : REBS
20
Disencumbers : RIDS
21
Window units : PANES
22
Silkworm : ERI
23
Get-up-and-go : ZING
24
Presidential nickname : CAL
25
Panty or police : RAID
27
Go too far : OVERSTEP
32
Words on a price list : ANDUP
34
Disagreeable ones : TOADS
35
Suffix for glob or gran : ULE
36
Machine parts : CAMS
37
Kind of bud : TASTE
38
Pine, for one : TREE
39
Part of N. Amer. : USA
40
Joins in the crowd : MIXES
41
Cheapskate : PIKER
42
Universal : PANDEMIC
44
Enclosure : PALE
45
Lemon or pom : ADE
46
___ of the dog : HAIR
48
Time units: Abbr. : YRS
51
Stun : AMAZE
54
Highway sign : EATS
55
Jets' home : SHEA
56
Cape Cod town : BUZZARDSBAYMASS
59
Print type: Abbr. : ITAL
60
"The very ___!" : IDEA
61
Gives the heave-ho : OUSTS
62
Ribbon: Suffix : TENE
63
Emily or Wiley : POST
64
Words of disgust : UGHS
Down
1
Upper space : ETHER
2
Famous Alcatraz resident : THEBIRDMAN
3
"Giddyup, ___!" : HOSS
4
Direction: Abbr. : SSW
5
Exhausted : ALLIN
6
Bootless errands : WILDGOOSECHASES
7
Biblical prophet : AMOS
8
Evergreen : YEW
9
Some yokels : LOCALS
10
Soon : ANON
11
Flower cluster : CYME
12
Letters : EXES
13
Existence: Fr. : ETRE
17
Unimaginative : ARID
18
Bandies words : SPARS
23
Kind of gun : ZIP
24
Give up : CEDE
26
Eur. country : AUS
28
Large containers : VATS
29
Post-holiday fare : TURKEYHASH
30
Robert ___ : ELEE
31
Coequal : PEER
32
"Take ___ and drink it up" : ACUP
33
Space agency : NASA
34
Kind of dancer : TAXI
37
"A ___ to live, and ... " : TIME
38
Sesame : TIL
40
Jason's wife : MEDEA
41
Between a bogey and a birdie : PAR
43
Astound : DAZZLE
44
Tower city : PISA
47
Up : ATBAT
49
Musical marks : RESTS
50
Cheek : SASS
51
"I don't care ___" : ABIT
52
Muffle : MUTE
53
Moslem call to prayer : AZAN
54
Taro root : EDDO
55
Self-satisfied : SMUG
57
Actor Torn : RIP
58
Pronoun : YOU

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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