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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Tuesday, August 3, 1982

38-Across : First-year Latin word

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has duplicate clues.
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,956
Across
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Show up again : RECUR
6
Meat paste : PATE
10
Finale of "Macbeth" : ACTV
14
"___ and merry at forty ... " : ALONE
15
Tel ___ : AVIV
16
Syngman of Korea : RHEE
17
Dance : TANGO
18
Roué : RAKE
19
Poet laureate: 1692-1715 : TATE
20
Swallows : INGESTS
22
Catalogues : INDICES
24
Esteem : ODOR
25
___ Paul Kruger : OOM
27
___ sgt. : TECH
28
Of a certain bone : ULNAR
30
School group : CLASS
33
U.S. Army Corps member : WAC
36
Square : PLAZA
37
Verso's opposite : RECTO
38
First-year Latin word : AMO
39
Dance : BEGUINE
41
Paul Newman role : HUD
42
Shankar's instrument : SITAR
44
Kovacs or Pyle : ERNIE
45
Huxtable or Rehan : ADA
46
___ ballerina : PRIMA
47
Entered a slalom : SKIED
48
Cut of meat : LOIN
50
Agcy. succeeded by N.R.C. : AEC
51
Autocrat : TSAR
55
Trickster : DELUDER
58
Give a new shape to : REFRAME
60
God identified with Woden : ODIN
61
Prefix with scope or style : PERI
63
Dance : RUMBA
64
"___ Rhythm" : IGOT
65
Mine, to Michel : AMOI
66
Rounded : ORBED
67
Certain bills : TENS
68
Places : LOCI
69
Ancient : HOARY
Down
1
Proportion : RATIO
2
Antelope : ELAND
3
River in a Vachel Lindsay poem : CONGO
4
Pioneer botanist Franz ___ : UNGER
5
Early autos : REOS
6
Ministers' homes : PARSONAGES
7
Gardner : AVA
8
Polynesian mythical figure : TIKI
9
Items on a sports program : EVENT
10
A, e.g. : ARTICLE
11
Dance : CHACHACHA
12
___-bêche (head to tail) : TETE
13
$5 bills : VEES
21
French hue and cry : TOLLE
23
Issued a ukase : DECREED
26
Dance : MAZURKA
28
Reprimand : UPBRAID
29
Monacan ruler : RAINIERIII
31
Stallion : STUD
32
Pop : SODA
33
Stinger : WASP
34
Turkish title : AMIR
35
Dance : COTILLION
40
Relative : NIECE
43
Quantities : AMOUNTS
49
Himalayan kingdom : NEPAL
51
Cape Cod town : TRURO
52
Dance : SAMBA
53
Brownish yellow : AMBER
54
Set : READY
55
Porter's "Let's ___" : DOIT
56
Move hesitantly : EDGE
57
San ___, on Long Island : REMO
59
Tenor role in "Das Rheingold" : FROH
62
U.S. missile : ROC

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

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