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Jack L. Steinhardt
Jack L. Steinhardt

New York Times, Tuesday, May 15, 1979

35-Across : Spanish criminal

Author:
Jack L. Steinhardt
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 2, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Jack L. Steinhardt has 39 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,780
Across
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Matted wool : SHAG
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Osborne's "Look Back in ___" : ANGER
10
Gray wolf : LOBO
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She gets what she wants : LOLA
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Sabbatical, e.g. : LEAVE
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Ancient Greek contest : AGON
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Cupid : AMOR
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Ventures : DARES
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Red bay or sweet bay : TREE
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Siblings or Western outlaws : YOUNGERBROTHERS
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Deviates morally : ERRS
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Recline : LIE
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"Belle of Amherst" star : HARRIS
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Indecisive : WAVERING
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One of the archangels : URIEL
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He wrote "In the Boom Boom Room" : RABE
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Spanish criminal : REO
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Fiftyish expansion : MIDDLEAGESPREAD
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Suffix for verb or malt : OSE
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Vote seldom heard in the Presidium : NYET
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Slow, in music : LENTO
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Took umbrage : RESENTED
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Current : LATEST
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Hide ___ hair : NOR
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Century plant : PITA
49
Like Methuselah : ASOLDASTHEHILLS
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Town southeast of Milan : LODI
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Looked after, with "for" : CARED
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Type of hole : LOOP
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Purposes : USES
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"To ___ own self be true" : THINE
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Advantage : EDGE
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With 52 Down, topical comic : MORT
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Sinclair Lewis's Gantry : ELMER
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Oliver or Willis : REED
Down
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Massacre : SLAY
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"Ecce ___!" : HOMO
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Baseball's Matty : ALOU
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Collected : GARNERED
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Kin of birches : ALDERS
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Comes closer : NEARS
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Raiment : GARB
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Anon's partner : EVER
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Decides : RESOLVES
10
Foam from soap : LATHER
11
Frightful fellow : OGRE
12
A Capetown citizen : BOER
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"Snake eyes" : ONES
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Question severely : GRILL
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Word with clasp or pin : TIE
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Jocosity : HUMOR
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Revolt : ARISE
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Pokes fun at : RIDES
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Conducted : WAGED
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Aid and ___ : ABET
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Castle or Bordoni : IRENE
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___-foot oil : NEATS
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Beckett's "Waiting for ___" : GODOT
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Comedienne Martha : RAYE
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Theatrical interval : ENTRACTE
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"The Bell Jar" author : PLATH
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Direct-to-consumer merchant : RETAILER
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Army poster word : ENLIST
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Sleepy land : NOD
46
Schubert offerings : LIEDER
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Benzene : PHENE
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Astringent : ALUM
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Not bad, but not good : SOSO
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River rising in Silesia : ODER
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See 63 Across : SAHL
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Beat badly : TRIM
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Word with stone or star : LODE
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Theater area : LOGE
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Accelerated : SPED

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