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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

New York Times, Tuesday, May 6, 1975

62-Across : Feigned

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { none — this is a pangram }, Scrabble score: 335 (avg 1.75)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,397
Across
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Mop up : SWAB
5
Toward the stern : ABAFT
10
Particle : WHIT
14
Hock or sack : WINE
15
Keep the ___ (contain) : LIDON
16
City on the Truckee : RENO
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Neighbor of Nev. : ARIZ
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Unswerving : FOURSQUARE
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Mocha's land : YEMEN
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Darjeeling : TEA
23
Ruined : UNDID
24
Defendant's defense : ALIBI
26
Guzzle : SWIG
28
Cask: Abbr. : BRL
30
Spouse : CONSORT
32
Denials : NOS
35
Kind of camera : REFLEX
37
Reaction to a doctor's mallet : KNEEJERK
39
Rhyme scheme : ABAA
40
British liberals : WHIGS
42
Golf situation : AWAY
43
Pronto : VERYSOON
45
Conflict : TUSSLE
47
Shade tree : ELM
48
Ask guidance : CONSULT
50
French article : LES
51
Style : MODE
52
Kind of pipe : PEACE
54
Took pleasure in : ATEUP
57
Evergreen : YEW
59
In a riled state : HETUP
62
Feigned : DISSEMBLED
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"___ girl!" : ITSA
66
Singly : ONCE
67
Orchestra member : CELLO
68
Thresh : BEAT
69
Do a farm chore : SEED
70
Closes tightly : SEALS
71
Kennel sounds : ARFS
Down
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Rule : SWAY
2
Telegram : WIRE
3
Orwell novel : ANIMALFARM
4
Chisel edge : BEZEL
5
Landon : ALF
6
Vitamin in yeast and liver : BIOTIN
7
Together, in music : ADUE
8
Cheaply : FORASONG
9
Weights: Abbr. : TNS
10
Contorted : WRUNG
11
___ for the hills : HEAD
12
Religious inscription : INRI
13
___ the line : TOED
19
Altogether : QUITE
21
Pleasant : NICE
25
Ornamental evergreen : BOXWOOD
27
Take on Gorgeous George : WRESTLE
28
Atlanta athlete : BRAVE
29
Establishment foe : REBEL
31
Onion and red : SKINS
32
Wordy Christmas-card enclosure : NEWSLETTER
33
Papal cape : ORALE
34
Scottish terriers : SKYES
36
Put down : LAY
38
Part of Monroe's sig. : JAS
41
Hive dweller : HONEYBEE
44
Range : SCOPE
46
Where the Sevier flows : UTAH
49
Flow, as fountain water : UPWELL
51
Pondered : MUSED
53
Silk-cotton tree : CEIBA
54
Bustlings : ADOS
55
Trident feature : TINE
56
Verb ending : ESCE
58
Fitzgerald : ELLA
60
Service branch: Abbr. : USAF
61
Touches lightly : PATS
63
Banquet V.I.P.'s : MCS
64
Scale tones : DOS

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 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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