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Young
Young

New York Times, Friday, July 8, 1977

20-Across : Go back to

Author:
Young
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.39, Missing: { J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 250 (avg 1.29)
Open Squares: 86, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Young has 6 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,191
Across
1
Soviet wire service : TASS
5
Scrubs : SCOURS
11
Vehicle for A. J. Foyt : CAR
14
Lath : SLAT
15
Part of 34 Across : CORNEA
16
Twelve months, in Mexico : ANO
17
Like "Pilgrim's Progress" : ALLEGORICAL
19
M.I.T. room : LAB
20
Go back to : REVERT
21
Like the oaken bucket : OLD
22
Info : DOPE
23
Silly : INANE
24
Corrida sound : OLE
25
One hitting the books : PORER
26
Dress a stone : NIG
27
Specialist in certain roots : GENEALOGIST
30
Chemical in nail-polish removers : ACETONE
32
Widows : RELICTS
33
MOMA offering : ART
34
Oculist's specialty : EYE
35
Torments : HARRIES
39
Chair a meeting : PRESIDE
43
State of being undivided : UNITARINESS
45
Snare : NET
46
Family vehicle : SEDAN
47
Witticism : MOT
48
Armistice : TRUCE
50
Counterfeiter's nemesis : TMAN
51
Dakar or Danzig: Abbr. : SPT
52
Gender : NEUTER
53
Riggs's best stroke : LOB
54
Gov. Brown is one : CALIFORNIAN
56
Like some soldiers: Abbr. : ENL
57
Chicken ___ (Louisiana dish) : CREOLE
58
Wagner heroine : ELSA
59
Diocese : SEE
60
Fleshy : CARNAL
61
Close a falcon's eyes : SEEL
Down
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Alexandra was one : TSARINA
2
Like a hydrocarbon : ALLENIC
3
Save from ruin : SALVAGE
4
Dutch painter : STEEN
5
Carlyle, e.g. : SCOT
6
Heart, to Hadrian : COR
7
Word with Baltimore or golden : ORIOLE
8
Cloudy : UNCLEAR
9
Scan : READ
10
Maglie or Mineo : SAL
11
Relating to heat : CALORIC
12
Metrical foot : ANAPEST
13
"Northwest Passage" author : ROBERTS
18
Calendar or chant : GREGORIAN
22
Motherless calves : DOGIES
24
"___ for the money" : ONE
25
Synthetic fiber : POLYESTER
28
Become a member : ENTER
29
Casts evil glances : LEERS
31
Plaid : TARTAN
35
Shakes a leg : HUSTLES
36
Springtime wild flower : ANEMONE
37
Unlike a bucking bronco : RIDABLE
38
Less complicated : SIMPLER
39
Caress : PET
40
Useless : INUTILE
41
Go to the Great Beyond : DECEASE
42
"Hope springs ___" : ETERNAL
44
Opinion; view : NOTION
49
Old letters : RUNES
51
Poet Teasdale : SARA
52
Coward of England : NOEL
54
F.D.R. measure : CCC
55
Ga. neighbor : FLA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 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.

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