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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

New York Times, Saturday, September 7, 1974

13-Across : Tends the bar

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { none — this is a pangram }, Scrabble score: 319 (avg 1.74)
Open Squares: 50, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,156
Across
1
Con ___ (tenderly) : AMORE
6
Rogers : ROY
9
Standoffs : TIES
13
Tends the bar : MIXES
14
June phrase : IDO
15
Running tracks : OVALS
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Forecast : PROJECTED
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Concentrated juice : SYRUP
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Sensible : SANE
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Cortés's subjects : AZTECS
23
Cha : TEA
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Intimidate : COW
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Vance and Holmes : SLEUTHS
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Small-minded : PETTY
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Force : IMPEL
32
Mooring rope : HAWSER
34
Compass heading : NNE
35
Plant : MILL
38
Equal: Prefix : ISO
39
Gives up : RESIGNS
42
Modern: Prefix : NEO
43
Lay away : STOW
45
Photos, for short : PIX
46
Goal : TARGET
48
Blackbird : RAVEN
50
Sunbathes : BASKS
51
Orchestra section : STRINGS
53
___ room : REC
54
Educ. building : SCH
55
Wall covering : STUCCO
57
One-liner : QUIP
61
Character in a Peter Weiss play : MARAT
63
Respects : LOOKSUPTO
65
Cockpit : ARENA
66
Jackie's spouse : ARI
67
Romero of films : CESAR
68
Urges : YENS
69
Gridiron figure : REF
70
Editor's concern : STYLE
Down
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Elec. units : AMPS
2
Star in Cetus : MIRA
3
British campus: Abbr. : OXON
4
Declines : REJECTS
5
Compass reading : ESE
6
Famed hotel : RITZ
7
Modern playwright : ODETS
8
Alpine sound : YODELING
9
Even money : TOSSUP
10
One of the leagues : IVY
11
Humans : EARTHLINGS
12
Skids : SLUES
16
Vacation spot : SPA
18
Rookery sound : CAW
22
Bonding agent : CEMENT
25
___ and terminer : OYER
27
Pro ___ : TEM
28
Greek letters : PHIS
29
"___ of Eden" : EAST
30
A few : TWOORTHREE
33
Wish one hadn't : REPENT
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"Nothing doing!" : NIX
36
Garden green : LEEK
37
Very many : LOTS
40
Exceptional : SINGULAR
41
"Quién ___?" : SABE
44
Hostilities : WAR
47
Squash gear : RACQUET
49
Prospects : VISTAS
51
Alarming : SCARY
52
Tally : SCORE
53
Man of Seoul : ROK
54
Wee, in Scotland : SMA
56
Close-fitting hat : COIF
58
___-daisy : UPSY
59
Kind of type: Abbr. : ITAL
60
Meditate : PORE
62
Sothern : ANN
64
Parts of acts: Abbr. : SCS

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

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