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Joseph LaFauci
Joseph LaFauci

New York Times, Saturday, June 24, 1967

54-Across : Uproot.

Author:
Joseph LaFauci
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.49, Missing: { J Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 84, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 Grid has duplicate clues.
Joseph LaFauci has 70 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,524
Across
1
Sequestered. : PRIVATE
8
"Get lost!" London style. : HOPIT
13
Voters' choice. : PRESIDENT
15
Circumvent. : EVADE
16
Uncommunicative state. : RETICENCE
17
Device using high-energy atoms. : LASER
18
Certain collegians. : ELIS
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___ Stanford. : LELAND
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Roofing. : TAR
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___ Carlos. : SAN
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Depart hurriedly, Spanish style. : VAMOSE
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Flooring. : TILE
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Pundit. : SWAMI
27
Donkey: Ger. : ESEL
28
Fail to include. : OMIT
29
Humorous word for "think." : OPINE
31
Accentuate. : STRESS
33
Exhortation to a sinner. : REPENT
35
Ranger's responsibility. : FOREST
36
River into Bristol Channel. : SEVERN
37
Nongregarious chap. : LONER
38
Mosque of ___. : OMAR
39
Moslem prince. : AMIR
41
Describing urban air. : SOOTY
45
Belgian City. : MONS
46
Clan emblems. : TOTEMS
48
Python. : BOA
49
Part of a street sign. : AVE
50
Colorless gas. : KETENE
51
Word with down or up. : SLOW
52
Thread variety. : LISLE
54
Uproot. : ERADICATE
56
Of a Quechuan people. : INCAN
57
Compressed into thin plates. : LAMINATED
58
Means. : AGENT
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Hellespont swimmer. : LEANDER
Down
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Designating a certain college course. : PRELAW
2
Eye part. : RETINA
3
Very old Egyptian. : ISIS
4
Nickname in baseball. : VIC
5
Daughter of William the Conqueror. : ADELA
6
Type of dwelling. : TENEMENT
7
Surround. : ENCLOSE
8
Maintained. : HELD
9
Eggs: Lat. : OVA
10
Puzzles and others. : PASTIMES
11
Dreamer. : IDEALIST
12
Rein rings. : TERRETS
13
Journalism. : PRESS
14
Coquette. : TEASE
20
One of the Rockefellers. : NELSON
23
Treacherous person. : VIPER
24
Corrida luminary. : TORERO
26
Listless ones. : MOPERS
30
Native. : INNATE
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Lock. : TRESS
33
Shifting (to). : REMOVING
34
Dissipate like vapor. : EVANESCE
35
Appellation. : FORENAME
36
African state, about the size of Texas. : SOMALIA
37
Word-for-word. : LITERAL
40
Traveler's choice. : MOTEL
42
Monastery dweller. : OBLATE
43
Horn. : TOOTER
44
Swerved, nautically speaking. : YAWED
47
Means. : MEDIA
50
English county. : KENT
51
Carangid fish. : SCAD
53
Swedish county. : LAN
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Tabard, for one. : INN

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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