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Jack Luzzatto
Jack Luzzatto

New York Times, Saturday, September 10, 1977

14-Across : ___ land

Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.50, Missing: { J V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Jack Luzzatto has 293 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,255
Across
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Beach houses : CABANAS
8
Improper : AMISS
13
Seasoning mint : OREGANO
14
___ land : NOMANS
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Discount sources for shoppers : MONEYOFFCOUPONS
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Goner's name : MUD
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Penned, as pigs : STIED
21
Drench : SOAK
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Benefit from : USE
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Franks' accompaniment : BEANS
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Pandowdy : PIE
25
___ incognita : TERRA
27
One of Adam's boys : SETH
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Ki-yi : YELP
30
Belles-lettres, perhaps : ESSAYS
32
Soccer players : BOOTERS
34
Monks for the commissary : CELLARERS
36
Less prepossessing : SEEDIER
38
Isabel Perón, e.g. : SENORA
42
Remain unsettled : PEND
43
Start of a 1928 song title : DIGA
45
More affronted : SORER
46
Varnish ingredient : LAC
47
Lateens and Genoas : SAILS
49
Summer time: Abbr. : EDT
50
Excited : AGOG
52
Twenty-four sheets of paper : QUIRE
53
Amin : IDI
54
Containers that create litter : NORETURNBOTTLES
58
Hon : DEARIE
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Little ring : ANNULET
60
Unpleasant company : DRIPS
61
Obtainers : GETTERS
Down
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Travel to and from the job : COMMUTE
2
Stimulates : AROUSES
3
Wingdings : BENDERS
4
Wharton's "The ___ of Innocence" : AGE
5
No : NAY
6
"Plain as ___ in a man's face": Rabelais : ANOSE
7
As ___ silk : SOFTAS
8
Kunta Kinte, to Haley : ANCESTOR
9
Disposition : MOOD
10
Hawaiian baking pit : IMU
11
Blackjacks : SAPS
12
Prying one : SNOOPER
15
Escargots : SNAILS
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A good deal : FINEBARGAIN
18
Beehive made of straw : SKEP
23
Howled at the moon : BAYED
26
Whizzed : RACED
28
Farm tools : HOES
29
Hedging on a question : YESNO
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Slithered : SLID
33
Lock of hair : TRESS
35
Idle hours : LEISURES
36
Neptune or Poseidon : SEAGOD
37
Called for another song : ENCORED
39
Pend ___ (river, peak or lake in Idaho) : OREILLE
40
Whitetail in summer : REDDEER
41
Cassatt, Chagall et al. : ARTISTS
42
Strategy : PLAN
44
Car safety-device : AIRBAG
48
Sierra ___ : LEONE
51
Transmission item : GEAR
52
Witticism : QUIP
55
Three-way: Prefix : TRI
56
Blasting material : TNT
57
Pooh! : TUT

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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