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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Saturday, June 16, 1984

40-Across : Moore or Bumbry

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 304 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 5, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,639
Across
1
Stir : CLINK
6
___ dixit : IPSE
10
Randy : LEWD
14
Asian capital : HANOI
15
Burmese folklore spirits : NATS
16
Yours, in Tours : ATOI
17
Tocsin : ALERT
18
U.S. composer: 1874-1954 : IVES
19
___ tail (flee) : TURN
20
W.H. Auden book of poems : FORTHETIMEBEING
23
Native of Tallinn : ESTH
24
Diamond ___ : LIL
25
Plague : NAG
26
Very, in music : ASSAI
28
Pyramid builder : CHEOPS
32
Sail briskly : SPANK
35
Drop : LOSE
37
Buccal : ORAL
38
Like the Rockettes : LEGGY
39
Ref. book : ENC
40
Moore or Bumbry : GRACE
41
Dies ___ : IRAE
42
What anosmic people don't sense : ODOR
43
Humphrey's successor : AGNEW
44
Model : MIRROR
46
Illusory : FALSE
48
Mary Todd's man : ABE
49
New Deal initials : WPA
50
"Othello" opener : ACTI
54
S. Maugham novel : THEBISHOPSAPRON
59
Metrical foot : IAMB
60
Lexicon : TOME
61
Singapore ___ (cocktail) : SLING
62
Salinger character : ESME
63
Watcher : EYER
64
Jai alai basket : CESTA
65
Light carriage, to Holmes : SHAY
66
___ égal : SANS
67
Photogs' solutions : HYPOS
Down
1
Abrade : CHAFE
2
Sugarcane shoots : LALOS
3
Torpid : INERT
4
Jane Austen novel : NORTHANGERABBEY
5
Kin's partner : KITH
6
O.K.'d in writing : INITIALED
7
Pearl Buck novel : PAVILIONOFWOMEN
8
Contain : STEM
9
Pith : ESSENCE
10
J. Marquand novel, with "The" : LATEGEORGEAPLEY
11
Glasses case : ETUI
12
Shabby : WORN
13
Talk or urge repetitiously : DING
21
Urban railways : ELS
22
Faugh! : BAH
27
Hit a ball high : SKY
29
Port west of Algiers : ORAN
30
N.Y. university : PACE
31
Raft : SLEW
32
Actor Pickens : SLIM
33
Elflike being : PERI
34
Gelling agent : AGAR
36
Prizefighters : SCRAPPERS
40
Bombast : GAS
42
Electra's brother : ORESTES
45
Saku garment : OBI
47
Argentina's ___ Conchas : LAS
51
Curly : CRISP
52
An Apache : TONTO
53
Tropical trees : INGAS
54
Draws : TIES
55
___ over (discuss) : HASH
56
Another Austen novel : EMMA
57
Georgetown U. athlete : HOYA
58
He wrote "The Nazarene" : ASCH

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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