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Joseph LaFauci
Joseph LaFauci

New York Times, Saturday, March 30, 1974

56-Across : Wet, as eyes

Author:
Joseph LaFauci
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.37, Missing: { F J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 84, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Joseph LaFauci has 70 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 8,995
Across
1
"Scarlet Letter" girl : HESTER
7
Receiving company : ATHOME
13
Break one's diet : OVEREAT
15
Leakage preventer : SEALANT
17
Italian port : TARANTO
18
Jack of films : PALANCE
19
Irritable : EDGY
20
Carriage : POISE
22
Never, in Berlin : NIE
23
C.S.A. hero : LEE
24
City of Pakistan : LAHORE
26
Comedian Wheeler : BERT
27
Pittsburgh athlete : PIRATE
28
Leave in the ___ : LURCH
29
Piece of the fairway : DIVOT
30
Germ-free : STERILE
32
Hags : CRONES
34
Made a poker move : RAISED
35
Indulged : HUMORED
37
French painter : MANET
38
One of the Brontës : EMILY
39
Undermined : ERODED
41
Rich source : MINE
42
In a funk : SCARED
43
Camping item : COT
46
___ trice : INA
47
Topkick : SARGE
48
Guinea pig : CAVY
49
Healing plant in folk medicine : SANICLE
51
Dice throw : NATURAL
54
Surrounded area : ENCLAVE
55
Manage : OPERATE
56
Wet, as eyes : TEARED
57
Shred : TATTER
Down
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Convention setting : HOTEL
2
Circumvent : EVADE
3
Suit fabric : SERGE
4
Waiter's need : TRAY
5
Imitation fabric: Suffix : EEN
6
Turn informer : RAT
7
Has ambitions : ASPIRES
8
Pester : TEASE
9
Edward Everett : HALE
10
Palm leaf: Var. : OLA
11
One with affectations : MANNERIST
12
Surround : ENCIRCLE
14
Astaire-Rogers film : TOPHAT
16
Went through an infant stage : TEETHED
21
Not in, in Scotland : OOT
24
Footman's wear : LIVERY
25
Sprang up : AROSE
26
Secreted : BURIED
27
Corn flour : PINOLE
28
Slanted : LEANED
29
Authority : DOMINANCE
31
Baseball deal : TRADE
32
Shiftlike dress : CHEMISE
33
Meditative : RUMINANT
36
Ordained : DECREED
37
Rita of "West Side Story" : MORENO
40
Scold : RAG
42
Medicine-chest item : SALVE
43
Jewelry weight : CARAT
44
Egg-shaped : OVATE
45
City in Texas : TYLER
47
Rocky cliff : SCAR
48
Brusque : CURT
50
Rhodesian native : ILA
52
Inclined : APT
53
Assam specialty : TEA

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

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