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Jack R. Harnes
Jack R. Harnes

New York Times, Wednesday, September 22, 1982

69-Across : Lettuce unit

Author:
Jack R. Harnes
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { B J Q W X Y }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 2, Spans: 3
Jack R. Harnes has 6 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,006
Across
1
Chance : RISK
5
Energy : VIGOR
10
Baff the golf ball : LOFT
14
Against : ANTI
15
___ fell swoop : INONE
16
Tiger's milieu : ASIA
17
Performer like 4 or 10 Down : STAR
18
Caper : ANTIC
19
Helsinki signatory : USSR
20
Light refractor : PRISM
22
Attic promenade : STOA
23
Decays : ROTS
24
Sally : SORTIE
26
Chou ___ : ENLAI
28
Participate : ENTER
30
Turning tools : LATHES
34
Stilted : MANNERED
37
Sky blue : AZURE
38
Elgar's "King ___" : OLAF
39
Cheer up : ELATE
42
Word with post or stone : MILE
43
Advice in a 1915 song : SMILE
45
Heavy knives : MACHETES
47
Bow : SALAAM
49
Highway stopover : MOTEL
50
Attractive quality : GRACE
52
Flower for Nero Wolfe : ORCHID
56
Native minerals : ORES
59
Rail : SORA
61
Clip wool : SHEAR
62
Wine named for an Iberian city : PORT
63
Prods : SPURS
65
" ... ___ the wide blue yonder" : INTO
66
Robert ___, who once played Gershwin : ALDA
67
Serfs : ESNES
68
Stowe's "The Pearl of ___ Island" : ORRS
69
Lettuce unit : HEAD
70
"Absinthe" painter : DEGAS
71
Branco and Mayo : RIOS
Down
1
Grates : RASPS
2
Pop-song lead-in : INTRO
3
Place for a riser : STAIR
4
Wagnerian soprano : KIRSTENFLAGSTAD
5
Rome's ___ Appia : VIA
6
London's ___ of Court : INNS
7
Vehicle for 4 and 10 Down : GOTTERDAMMERUNG
8
Pearl or Bermuda : ONION
9
Embarrassed announcement from Detroit : RECALL
10
Noted heldentenor : LAURITZMELCHIOR
11
___ buco (trattoria dish) : OSSO
12
Sign used in printing : FIST
13
"H.M.S. Pinafore" group : TARS
21
Dig : MINE
25
Common French verb : ETRE
27
Motorists' org. : AAA
29
Teleost : EEL
31
VIII: Fr. : HUIT
32
Gardner : ERLE
33
Observes : SEES
34
Playwright Hart : MOSS
35
Soprano Gluck : ALMA
36
Brad : NAIL
40
Confucian truth : TAO
41
Outside: Comb. form : ECTO
44
Auricle : EAR
46
Towel word : HERS
48
Assembled : MASSED
51
Thicket : COPSE
53
Matisse or Pétain : HENRI
54
Physician: Comb. form : IATRO
55
Scoria : DROSS
56
Large, brightly colored fish : OPAH
57
Part : ROLE
58
Spirit in "Siegfried" : ERDA
60
Kind of code : AREA
64
Draft org. : SSS

Answer summary:
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