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Richard Silvestri
Richard Silvestri

New York Times, Friday, July 20, 1979

41-Across : Paratrooper

Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Richard Silvestri has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 84 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,846
Across
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Pinochle maneuver : MELD
5
Musical session : JAM
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Mischievous : ELFIN
13
River to the Baltic : ODER
14
Type of survivor : SOLE
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Tropical climber : LIANE
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Team : SIDE
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"Could ___ Be Magic?" (1957 hit) : THIS
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Cons, in a way : ANTIS
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Substitute : STANDIN
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Certifies : ATTESTS
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Felon's abode : CELL
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"You Go to My ___," 1938 song : HEAD
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Sugar harvester's tool : MACHETE
28
Surname of Joe Louis : BARROW
30
House in a Poe tale : USHER
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Proper words, sometimes : NOUNS
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One-thousandth of an inch : MIL
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Dull sound : THUD
36
Nasty : SNIDE
37
Cone bearer : PINE
38
Gumshoe : TEC
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"Feed ___ and starve a fever" : ACOLD
40
Loops of hair : HANKS
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Paratrooper : SKYMAN
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" ... tails ___" : YOULOSE
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False god : BAAL
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Companion of hearty : HALE
47
"Faerie Queen" poet : SPENSER
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Elaborate speech : ORATION
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Opera : WORKS
55
Otiose : IDLE
57
Rent : TORE
58
Jibe : AGREE
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Like many of 10 Down's records : GOLD
60
Japanese outcasts : ETAS
61
Trifled : TOYED
62
Pig's digs : STY
63
Something to pass : SALT
Down
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Forest carpet : MOSS
2
Emulate Horace Greeley : EDIT
3
Woman in a Shelley poem : LEDA
4
Soaked : DRENCHED
5
Rock-and-roll great : JOHNLENNON
6
Liston's conqueror : ALI
7
Tableland : MESA
8
Beetles : ELATERS
9
Horizontal, in music : LINEAR
10
"Blueberry Hill" man : FATSDOMINO
11
Monogram unit: Abbr. : INIT
12
Monster's locale : NESS
14
Wading bird : STILT
20
Stag : DEER
22
Macbeth's earned position : THANE
25
Mongrel : MUTT
26
Contents of a silent butler : ASHES
27
"Sweet Little Sixteen" man : CHUCKBERRY
28
Memorable hiccuping rock-and-roller : BUDDYHOLLY
29
Nictitates : WINKS
32
Middle Eastern asset : OIL
34
___-majesté : LESE
36
Do-to-do progression : SCALE
37
Artists' needs : PALETTES
39
Heaped up : AMASSED
40
Luau entertainment : HULA
42
"___ Rose," 1926 song : YANKEE
44
Rowed : OARED
47
Ruth's sultanate : SWAT
48
Lake Okefenokeean : POGO
49
Tackles : RIGS
51
Little bit : IOTA
52
Viva-voce : ORAL
53
Cozy place : NEST
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Period : DOT

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.

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