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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

New York Times, Thursday, July 20, 1978

5-Across : Cease

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { V Z }, Scrabble score: 299 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,568
Across
1
___ spumante : ASTI
5
Cease : HALT
9
Suffix with pop or cell : ULAR
13
Actor Ives : BURL
14
D-Day beach : OMAHA
16
Mrs. Helmer : NORA
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Reykjavik's country: Abbr. : ICEL
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"M*A*S*H" role : RADAR
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Materials for making glass : FRIT
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Trilogy re three generations : THEFORSYTESAGA
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Freeman Gosden role : AMOS
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Glossy fabric : SATIN
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Thelma or Tex : RITTER
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Common contraction : WERENT
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Pallid : ASHEN
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Sacajawea was one : SQUAW
35
Haul : TOW
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Peerage type : LORD
37
Devoutness : PIETY
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Gudrun's husband : ATLI
39
Arafat's org. : PLO
40
Juan's afternoon : TARDE
41
Food fish : SMELT
42
Mooring line : HAWSER
44
Follies : LAPSES
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Utter : SPEAK
47
Tops : AONE
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Author of 20 Across : JOHNGALSWORTHY
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Pueblo Indian : HOPI
54
Air a view : OPINE
55
Good student's report card quartet : AAAA
56
Indian Ocean gulf : ADEN
57
Certain works of art : NUDES
58
Lass : GIRL
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Wildcat : LYNX
60
A wrongful act, to a lawyer : TORT
61
Robt. ___ : ELEE
Down
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Wait-___ (thorny plant) : ABIT
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"___ men are dangerous" : SUCH
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Teil or carob : TREE
4
Star-crossed : ILLFATED
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Dread : HORROR
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Accumulate : AMASS
7
"Tramp" in a 1937 song : LADY
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"___ Amore" : THATS
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Not equitable : UNFAIR
10
Eyeglasses mounted on handles : LORGNETTES
11
Sills's forte : ARIA
12
Turncoat : RAT
15
Basement access : AREAWAY
21
Straw in the wind : OMEN
22
Swivet or tizzy : STEW
25
Bellamy from Chicago : RALPH
26
Ischia is one : ISOLA
27
Removes restrictions from : THROWSOPEN
29
___ prosequi (court-record entry) : NOLLE
30
Needles : TWITS
32
Eden or Olivier : SIR
33
Euclidean abbr. : QED
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All-purpose truck : UTE
37
Model of excellence : PARAGON
38
Strength of an electrical current : AMPERAGE
40
Numerical ending : TEEN
41
Sound, in Seville : SANO
43
Enigmatic one : SPHINX
44
At the nadir : LOWEST
46
Gone phfft : KAPUT
47
He plays Lou Grant on TV : ASNER
48
Powell of the White House : JODY
49
Adriatic resort : LIDO
50
Shadow : TAIL
51
Leveret : HARE
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Ivy League member : YALE
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Holbrook from Cleveland : HAL

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

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