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Jack L. Steinhardt
Jack L. Steinhardt

New York Times, Monday, August 19, 1974

28-Across : Bible or wheat

Author:
Jack L. Steinhardt
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.64, Missing: { F J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 250 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 Grid has duplicate clues.
Jack L. Steinhardt has 39 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,137
Across
1
Norse giant : YMIR
5
Simon ___ : PURE
9
Caps : TAMS
13
Fable's high point : MORAL
15
Lamb : ELIA
16
Lined up : AROW
17
Subside : ABATE
18
Football linemen : ENDS
19
Ancient Persian : MEDE
20
Prudish : STRAITLACED
23
Virtuous : CHASTE
27
Wipe out : ERASE
28
Bible or wheat : BELT
29
Ski race : SLALOM
34
Main and 42d: Abbr. : STS
35
Bow or Barton : CLARA
37
Takes away a weapon : UNARMS
39
Prudish : PRIMANDPROPER
43
Cleanses : PURGES
44
Neck sections : NAPES
46
Barroom rocks : ICE
49
Tenant : LESSEE
51
"Not one ___" : IOTA
52
W. W. I battle river : MARNE
54
Did a laundry job : RINSED
56
Prudish : PURITANICAL
61
___ Clayton Powell : ADAM
62
Goose-liver spread : PATE
63
Slow, in music : LENTO
68
Abbe or Priscilla : LANE
69
Appian Way, e.g. : ITER
70
Sedate : STAID
71
Hts. : ALTS
72
"___ of these days ... " : SOME
73
Building projection : APSE
Down
1
Miss Sumac : YMA
2
Throng : MOB
3
George's brother : IRA
4
Hair pad : RAT
5
Equal : PEER
6
Arm bone : ULNA
7
"___, Pagliaccio ... " : RIDI
8
Far or Near : EAST
9
Daughter of David : TAMAR
10
Betel palms : ARECAS
11
Virtuous : MODEST
12
Bergman et al. : SWEDES
14
For fear that : LEST
21
Thy, in Paris : TES
22
Actor Jack : LEMMON
23
Ontario network : CBC
24
Succor : HELP
25
Winglike : ALAR
26
Sunset, for one : STRIP
30
Respirators : LUNGS
31
Mountain range : ANDES
32
Slip : LAPSE
33
Peace Nobelist, 1949 : ORR
36
Ornament : AMULET
38
Basques' home : SPAIN
40
Common word : ARE
41
Poetic type : EPOS
42
Network : RETE
45
Doleful : SAD
46
African animal : IMPALA
47
Taillike : CAUDAL
48
Knight ___ : ERRANT
50
Age : ERA
53
French city : NIMES
55
" ... rather bear those ___ we have ... " : ILLS
57
Sacred bull : APIS
58
Treaty alliance : NATO
59
News bit : ITEM
60
Part of a bird's bill : CERE
64
Greek letter : ETA
65
Fabric surface : NAP
66
Poetic contraction : TIS
67
Keats's "To Autumn" : ODE

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