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William Lutwiniak
New York Times, Tuesday, July 19, 1977
56-Across : Hair's companion
Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { none — this is a pangram }, Scrabble score: 294 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 S | 2 A | 3 S | 4 H | 5 F | 6 A | 7 T | 8 S | 9 G | 10 L | 11 A | 12 S | 13 S |
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14 O | N | E | I | 15 I | V | A | N | 16 R | A | T | I | O |
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17 F | A | N | G | 18 A | E | R | O | 19 I | D | E | S | T |
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20 A | S | T | H | 21 E | C | R | O | W | 22 F | L | I | E | S | |
23 H | A | R | T | 24 B | I | L | E | |||||||
25 E | 26 S | 27 T | A | T | E | 28 S | A | L | E | S | 29 T | 30 A | 31 X |
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32 Q | U | I | T | S | 33 T | I | L | L | S | 34 A | G | E |
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35 U | R | N | S | 36 M | A | D | L | Y | 37 B | R | A | N |
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38 A | G | T | 39 J | O | K | E | S | 40 M | A | T | Z | O |
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41 L | E | O | 42 N | U | R | I | S | 43 L | E | S | S | E | N |
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44 I | N | O | N | 45 A | I | R | E | |||||||
46 M | 47 A | K | I | N | G | 48 A | B | E | E | L | 49 I | 50 N | 51 E |
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52 T | U | L | I | P | 53 T | R | O | D | 54 E | X | E | S |
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55 E | L | A | T | E | 56 H | I | D | E | 57 S | I | L | T |
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58 C | E | S | A | R | 59 E | D | E | R | 60 S | A | L | A |
© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,202
Across
1
Cummerbund : SASH
5
Cholesterol sources : FATS
9
Tumbler : GLASS
14
"The ___ Love" : ONEI
15
Muscovite : IVAN
16
Proportion : RATIO
17
Ophidian feature : FANG
18
Drome or naut predecessor : AERO
19
That is: Lat. : IDEST
20
Directly : ASTHECROWFLIES
23
Forest creature : HART
24
Choler : BILE
25
Acres : ESTATE
28
Shopper's bane : SALESTAX
32
Relinquishes a job : QUITS
33
Cultivates : TILLS
34
Vital statistic : AGE
35
Garden planters : URNS
36
With abandon : MADLY
37
Grain product : BRAN
38
Proxy: Abbr. : AGT
39
Gags : JOKES
40
Passover bread : MATZO
41
"Trinity" author : LEONURIS
43
Diminish : LESSEN
44
Participating : INON
45
River of England : AIRE
46
Going directly : MAKINGABEELINE
52
Spring bloomer : TULIP
53
Stepped : TROD
54
Former spouses : EXES
55
Uplift : ELATE
56
Hair's companion : HIDE
57
Dredge's burden : SILT
58
Franck : CESAR
59
Largest dam in Germany : EDER
60
Hacienda room : SALA
Down
1
Lounge item : SOFA
2
Miscellanies : ANAS
3
Mailed : SENT
4
Snoots : HIGHHATS
5
Hackney coach : FIACRE
6
Stave off : AVERT
7
South Sea staple : TARO
8
Grows apace : SNOWBALLS
9
Gratings : GRILLES
10
Start of a speech : LADIES
11
To ___ (right on) : ATEE
12
Sibilant sound : SISS
13
A.A. candidate : SOT
21
Beanery sign : EATS
22
Paddock girl : FILLY
25
Peer : EQUAL
26
Come on strong : SURGE
27
Rio ___, Brazil : TINTO
28
Rectangles have four : SIDES
29
Bakery items : TARTS
30
Staring : AGAZE
31
Gas in the atmosphere : XENON
33
___ cake (winning) : TAKINGTHE
36
Dullard : MORON
37
Unsubstantiated : BASELESS
39
Evergreen : JUNIPER
40
Unalloyed : MERE
42
Khrushchev : NIKITA
43
German songs : LIEDER
45
Domicile : ABODE
46
U.S.M.A. mascot : MULE
47
Wellaway! : ALAS
48
Saharan : ARID
49
Corn lily : IXIA
50
Mistress Gwyn : NELL
51
This: Sp. : ESTA
52
Gumshoe : TEC
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 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.