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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Monday, May 27, 1991

25-Across : Composed

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J K Q U V X Z }, Scrabble score: 263 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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G
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A
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L
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A
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P
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I
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T
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T
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S
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D
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E
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S
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A
R
A
L
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A
R
R
O
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C
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N
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S
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B
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I
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A
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P
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M
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D
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P
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T
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N
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G
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S
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D
A
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E
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N
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D
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T
O
R
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T
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N
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D
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T
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A
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E
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R
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D
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E
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S
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A
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O
O
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T
H
F
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R
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A
T
O
O
T
H
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M
A
P
L
E
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T
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N
O
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O
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B
E
L
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A
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P
O
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D
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R
A
W
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T
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T
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R
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F
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I
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O
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D
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L
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A
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Y
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W
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T
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T
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A
L
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A
N
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I
R
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P
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P
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S
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D
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,175
Across
1
Festival : GALA
5
Zasu of films : PITTS
10
___ Plaines, Ill. : DES
13
Soviet sea : ARAL
14
Direction indicator : ARROW
15
Maize : CORN
16
Harry Woods's 1927 hit song : SIDEBYSIDE
18
Hebrides island : IONA
19
Army chaplain : PADRE
20
Stylish : MOD
21
Stumble : TRIP
22
Sharp taste : TANG
25
Composed : SEDATE
27
Wind up : END
30
Legal wrong : TORT
32
Intl. pact : NATO
33
Malicious gossip : DIRT
35
Swiss river : AARE
37
Goes horseback : RIDES
40
Half of an avenger's motto : ATOOTHFORATOOTH
43
Autumnal beauty : MAPLE
44
Actor Rip ___ : TORN
45
Something forbidden : NONO
46
Composer Bartók : BELA
48
Subject of Thoreau's "Walden" : POND
50
Inexperienced : RAW
51
Despot : TYRANT
53
Cupola's locale : ROOF
55
Soft drink : SODA
56
___ Jima : IWO
58
Procrastinate : DELAY
62
___ out (exhausted) : WORN
63
From ___ (occasionally) : TIMETOTIME
66
"Thanks ___!" : ALOT
67
Wind: Comb. form : ANEMO
68
Niblick, for one : IRON
69
Ginger : PEP
70
Be aware of : SENSE
71
Speaker's platform : DAIS
Down
1
Breathe laboriously : GASP
2
Air for Aprile Millo : ARIA
3
Cheryl or Alan : LADD
4
Wide-awake : ALERT
5
Recompense : PAY
6
Apr. is its month : IRS
7
Orderly : TRIM
8
Commotions : TODOS
9
Nobel's land : SWEDEN
10
Kind of salesman : DOORTODOOR
11
Comic Kovacs : ERNIE
12
Something easy : SNAP
15
Military honor : CITATION
17
Thrash : BEAT
23
A Beery : NOAH
24
Dishonest gain : GRAFT
26
Pub missile : DART
27
A Dutch treat : EDAM
28
Girl in an old song : NITA
29
A little at a time : DROPBYDROP
31
Boy Scout unit : TROOP
34
Forbearing : TOLERANT
36
Faux pas : ERROR
38
Sicilian menace : ETNA
39
___ up (arrive) : SHOW
41
Weblike membrane : TELA
42
Part of A.D. : ANNO
47
Loos and Ekberg : ANITAS
49
Fuddy-duddy : DODO
51
Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1981 : TOOLE
52
Strong string : TWINE
54
Foul smelling : FETID
55
Trade : SWAP
57
Portent : OMEN
59
Cremona coin : LIRA
60
Mine, to Jacques : AMOI
61
Cravings : YENS
64
Bad ___, German spa : EMS
65
Low digit : TOE

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

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