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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Tuesday, August 5, 1980

23-Across : Resided

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has duplicate clues.
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,228
Across
1
Rein : CURB
5
Faux pas : GAFFE
10
The Pyramid of Cheops, for one : TOMB
14
Solo at the Met : ARIA
15
Direction indicator : ARROW
16
Succulent plant : ALOE
17
"Good counsellors ___ no clients": Shak. : LACK
18
Night sound : SNORE
19
Small creature : MITE
20
Run away : FLEE
21
Apple or pear, e.g. : POME
22
Generous person : GIVER
23
Resided : DWELT
25
Dogmas : TENETS
26
Willow twig : WITHE
29
Overly fond : DOTING
31
Part of East Germany : ANHALT
33
English poet ("The Dunciad") : POPE
34
"Green ___" (best seller by Browne) : ICE
37
How this goes : FROMLEFTTORIGHT
40
Craggy peak : TOR
41
Tahitian loincloth : MARO
42
Like an oddball : FAROUT
43
Indians encountered by Columbus: 1493 : CARIBS
45
"The Velvet Fog" : TORME
46
Menu items : SALADS
49
Made of a certain grain : OATEN
51
Geneticist's word for an offshoot : CLONE
52
Aleutian island : ATTU
53
Takes more than one's share : HOGS
57
Many : ALOT
58
Protest demonstration : SITIN
59
One of Tewkesbury's rivers : AVON
60
A Kennedy : ROSE
61
Worship : ADORE
62
Notorious fiddler : NERO
63
Stared at : EYED
64
Pachisi and tiddlywinks : GAMES
65
John or Ellen of stage fame : DREW
Down
1
Leg part : CALF
2
Russian river : URAL
3
Playwright Elmer : RICE
4
Meat dish : BAKEDHAM
5
Canadian peninsula : GASPE
6
Revolutionary traitor : ARNOLD
7
How this goes : FROMTOPTOBOTTOM
8
Links call : FORE
9
Ram's mate : EWE
10
Petruchio's activity : TAMING
11
Cocktail-bar item : OLIVE
12
Choral composition : MOTET
13
Six-pack drinks : BEERS
22
Produce : GENERATE
24
Soundly constructed : WELLMADE
25
On the ___ one's tongue : TIPOF
26
Carry lightly and smoothly : WAFT
27
Japanese purse : INRO
28
Thunder god : THOR
30
___ up (add) : TOT
32
"Like Niobe, all ___": Hamlet : TEARS
34
Stravinsky : IGOR
35
Pal : CHUM
36
Feminine suffix : ETTE
38
"T.G.I.F." time : FRI
39
Despotic control : IRONHAND
43
Placed at an angle : CANTED
44
Literary derision : SATIRE
46
Bomb ___ : SCARE
47
Brass or pewter : ALLOY
48
Slack : LOOSE
50
Brings to proper pitch : TUNES
52
Verdi creation : AIDA
54
Priestley's "Johnson ___ Jordan" : OVER
55
Author Vidal : GORE
56
Kind of job or bunny : SNOW
58
Temporary economic decline : SAG

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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