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Alfio Micci
Alfio Micci

New York Times, Monday, July 9, 1979

10-Across : Skillful

Author:
Alfio Micci
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Alfio Micci has 91 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 11 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,835
Across
1
" ... and women must ___": Kingsley : WEEP
5
Voodoo : OBEAH
10
Skillful : DEFT
14
Mrs. Mahler : ALMA
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Obese one : FATSO
16
Guthrie : ARLO
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Lapsus linguae : SLIPOFTHETONGUE
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Castle feature : PARAPET
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Showed disapproval : HISSED
22
Stab : TRY
23
Prefix with phone or vision : TELE
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Synagogue officials : RABBIS
28
Dance movement : SWAY
29
"Some ___ meat ... ": Burns : HAE
32
First month, in Madrid : ENERO
33
Sped : HIED
34
Caution : WARN
35
Doing badly in Vegas : LOSINGONESSHIRT
38
Shake ___ (hurry) : ALEG
39
"When I was ___ ... ": Gilbert : ALAD
40
One at table : EATER
41
Thus far : YET
42
Gudrun's husband : ATLI
43
Rancor : ENMITY
44
In pain : ACHY
45
Mouth: Comb. form : ORI
46
Game for two : ECARTE
49
Queenfish : CROAKER
54
Prepremiere practices : DRESSREHEARSALS
57
Copter's relative : GIRO
58
Torpedo craft, British style : EBOAT
59
Tito, for one : SLAV
60
Black : EBON
61
Reed or Fargo : DONNA
62
Therm. reading : TEMP
Down
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Stinger : WASP
2
Raines or Fitzgerald : ELLA
3
Eastern potentate : EMIR
4
"___ Doc" Duvalier : PAPA
5
Proposes : OFFERS
6
Off one's rocker : BATTY
7
Ordinal suffix : ETH
8
Peer Gynt's mother : ASE
9
Impetuous people : HOTHEADS
10
"___ Macabre" : DANSE
11
Work units : ERGS
12
Chimney piece : FLUE
13
Kicked : TOED
18
Choice : OPTION
19
Covered with grease : OILY
23
Fall fabric : TWEED
24
Kind of race : RELAY
25
Lizard : ANOLE
26
Attack : BESET
27
Sailing ship : BRIG
28
Mideast hot spot : SINAI
29
Port-au-Prince is its capital : HAITI
30
Court decree : ARRET
31
Passageway : ENTRY
33
Christmas plant : HOLLY
34
Hard blow : WHAM
36
Amassed : GATHERED
37
Upperclassman : SENIOR
42
Bible book : ACTS
43
Mistakes of a sort : ERRATA
44
Pyromaniac's crime : ARSON
45
Vast expanse : OCEAN
46
Maugham's "The Razor's ___" : EDGE
47
Nursery item : CRIB
48
Flying prefix : AERO
50
Type of prof. : ASST
51
Leafy vegetable : KALE
52
Media was its neighbor : ELAM
53
Initials on an invitation : RSVP
55
Oil-yielding tree : EBO
56
Kind of degree: Abbr. : HON

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

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