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Leonard Sussman
Leonard Sussman

New York Times, Wednesday, August 23, 1967

38-Across : Military group in the van.

Author:
Leonard Sussman
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { X Z }, Scrabble score: 301 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Leonard Sussman has 40 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,584
Across
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Fellow. : CHAP
5
Harvest goddess. : CERES
10
Javanese tree. : UPAS
14
Sun: Prefix. : HELI
15
Many ___ (often). : ATIME
16
Army missile. : NIKE
17
Where Baghdad is. : IRAQ
18
Ship's men. : MATES
19
Ricochet. : SKIP
20
Successful. : TRIUMPHANT
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Departed. : WENT
23
___ Claire. : EAU
24
Type of star. : DIVA
26
Graduate degree. : SCD
29
Egyptian goddess. : ISIS
32
Vex. : NETTLE
36
Did a cook's chore. : PARED
38
Military group in the van. : SPEARHEAD
40
Worship. : ADORE
41
963 years ago. : MIV
42
"Un ___," Butterfly's aria. : BELDI
43
Call to mind past events. : REMINISCE
45
Key. : ISLET
46
Certain stocks. : STEELS
47
Alms box. : ARCA
49
Abbreviation with "truly." : YRS
50
Medical suffix. : CYTE
52
Khan's cousin. : AGA
54
Affirmative for 2 Down. : JAJA
57
Job-seeker's need. : REFERENCES
63
Norse god. : ODIN
64
Choleric. : IRATE
65
Motto for youth. : GOGO
66
Island group near Celebes. : SULA
67
Ungrammatical utterances. : AINTS
68
And others: Abbr. : ETAL
69
Synonym for war. : HELL
70
Title in Ethiopia. : NEGUS
71
Impart. : LEND
Down
1
Voucher. : CHIT
2
German man. : HERR
3
Kirghiz mountain range. : ALAI
4
See 32 Across. : PIQUE
5
Certain grounds. : CAMPUS
6
Greenland place. : ETAH
7
Margaret's cousin. : RITA
8
Add to and correct. : EMEND
9
Poetic work. : SESTINA
10
Removes the wrapping. : UNSWATHES
11
Road of a kind. : PIKE
12
Related. : AKIN
13
Numerical prefix. : SEPT
21
Like an old-fashioned girl. : MAIDENLY
25
Speaker's specialty. : VERBIAGE
26
Booms. : SPARS
27
Type of student. : CADET
28
Airport, for short. : DROME
30
Beliefs. : ISMS
31
Star in Virgo. : SPICA
33
British amusement. : TELLY
34
Stevedore. : LADER
35
Works on copy. : EDITS
37
1825 waterway. : ERIECANAL
39
In any case. : EVER
44
Of an Italian peninsula. : ISTRIAN
48
Sign of affection. : CARESS
51
Supernatural. : EERIE
53
Ball player. : ANGEL
54
Banter: Slang. : JOSH
55
Together: Mus. : ADUE
56
Nursery rhyme name. : JILL
58
Type of tooth. : FANG
59
Words from Caesar. : ETTU
60
Doves' home. : COTE
61
Alaska's first Governor. : EGAN
62
Auctioneer's word. : SOLD

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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