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John Finch
John Finch

New York Times, Monday, March 5, 1979

24-Across : Pipe

Author:
John Finch
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
John Finch has 6 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,709
Across
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Donner, ___ in Calif. : PASS
5
Ballet conclusion : CODA
9
Former Air Force general : LEMAY
14
What "video" means : ISEE
15
One of the Cartwrights : ADAM
16
"What's in ___?" : ANAME
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Vehicle important in the opening of the West : THECOVEREDWAGON
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Unfinished poem by Keats : HYPERION
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Price of too much worry and hurry : ULCER
22
Inge or Swift : DEAN
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Vex or become vexed : FRET
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Pipe : BRIAR
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Printing-plant employee : PRESSMAN
30
Tendency : TREND
31
Irritable : CROSS
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"___ atque vale" : AVE
33
Milieu of the Manassa Mauler : RING
34
Blessings on the plains : RAINS
35
Showdown command : DRAW
36
Like every other number : ODD
37
Hat for a Basque : BERET
38
Lock : TRESS
39
One with a will : TESTATOR
41
Pick up and drink: Slang : HOIST
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Cambodian money : RIEL
43
N.A.M. group : CORP
44
Kind of claim or game : SMALL
46
Partly developed mine : PROSPECT
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Weapon important in the opening of the West : THECOLTREVOLVER
52
Western : OATER
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It "springs eternal" : HOPE
54
Former name of a republic : EIRE
55
Pitchers : EWERS
56
River in Flanders : YSER
57
Blackthorn : SLOE
Down
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"Enterprises of great ___ and moment": Hamlet : PITH
2
Pallid : ASHY
3
Ooze : SEEP
4
Withdrawing from a union : SECEDING
5
Sturgeon's largesse : CAVIAR
6
Theater in Paris : ODEON
7
Mend old socks : DARN
8
Soul, to St. Etienne : AME
9
Like many a town in the Wild West : LAWLESS
10
Passes, as a bill : ENACTS
11
"Le ___," Massenet opera : MAGE
12
Ovid topic : AMOR
13
Longing : YEN
18
Nymph on Ida : OREAD
19
Coercion : DURESS
23
Call to a bellboy : FRONT
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Honeymooner : BRIDE
25
Splits : RENDS
26
Snoop : PRIER
27
Certain mustangs or cayuses : MARES
28
Desist, at sea : AVAST
29
What the Pony Express brought : NEWS
30
Pony : TROT
31
Magda Lupescu's husband : CAROL
34
Narrate anew : RETELL
35
Exudes tiny, set drops : DRIPPLES
37
Legal lenders of property : BAILORS
38
Trunk : TORSO
40
Kind of bullet : TRACER
41
Dam on the Colorado : HOOVER
43
___ suzette : CREPE
44
"Candida" author : SHAW
45
Deal out : METE
46
They play for money : PROS
47
"The ___ that men do ... " : EVIL
48
King mackerel : CERO
49
Rustler's final "hangout" : TREE
50
___ the line (conform) : TOE
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"___ kingdom come" : THY

Answer summary:
3 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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