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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

New York Times, Saturday, May 19, 1979

40-Across : Stopper

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.56, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,784
Across
1
Anonymous Richards : ROES
5
Records : ANNALS
11
Modern Greek vernacular : ROMAIC
13
"Can Do" people : SEABEES
15
Is direct : COMESTOTHEPOINT
17
Venerable : HOARY
18
Nudges : PRODS
19
___ disant : SOI
20
Author Kingsley : AMIS
21
Blinding : GLARY
22
Homophone for pearl : PURL
23
One of the wetlands : FEN
24
SST, e.g. : PLANE
25
Corday's victim : MARAT
26
Renews : FRESHENS
28
Worries : CARES
29
Querns : HANDMILLS
31
True up : ALIGN
33
Monograms : INITIALS
37
Emporium : STORE
38
Petioles or pedicels : STEMS
39
Kind of neckline : VEE
40
Stopper : CORK
41
Other, to Pierre : AUTRE
42
Adduce : CITE
43
Person : ONE
44
Eastern Church member : UNIAT
45
Abyss : CHASM
46
49
Molasses, to an Englishman : TREACLE
50
U.S.A.F. people : AIRMEN
51
Tonsorial offerings : SINGES
52
Suffices : DOES
Down
1
Salad ingredient : ROMAINE
2
Hebrew measures : OMERS
3
Like a snap : EASY
4
Convene : SIT
5
Landward : ASHORE
6
Indigent : NEEDY
7
Snoozes : NAPS
8
Australian indigene : ABO
9
Free time : LEISURE
10
Casa figures : SENORAS
11
Transient of a sort : ROOMER
12
Composer Aaron : COPLAND
14
Avocet's cousin : STILT
15
Banter : CHAFF
16
Message-sending : TRANSMITTAL
21
Astronaut-Senator : GLENN
22
Zoroastrian : PARSI
24
Eater: Comb. form : PHAGE
25
Soda-fountain orders : MALTS
27
Goldbrick : SHIRK
28
Poetic region : CLIME
30
Sluggishness : INERTIA
31
They make amends : ATONERS
32
Role for Channing : LORELEI
34
Pilots a plane : AVIATES
35
Admits : LETSIN
36
What Hamlet said he knew not : SEEMS
37
Hazel or Winfield : SCOTT
38
Musical compositions : SUITES
41
Like weak female nonagenarians : ANILE
42
Belfry sound : CHIME
44
Acad. at New London, Conn. : USCG
45
Food fish, sometimes called pintado : CERO
47
Wool: Prefix : LAN
48
Josh : KID

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

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