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William Lutwiniak
New York Times, Thursday, January 12, 1967
28-Down : Man's name, for short.
Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 S | 2 A | 3 F | 4 E | 5 P | 6 I | 7 T | 8 S | 9 D | 10 O | 11 M | 12 S | |||
13 I | G | O | R | 14 U | C | U | T | 15 U | N | A | P | 16 T |
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17 S | E | R | A | 18 M | I | S | R | 19 S | T | R | I | A |
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20 S | E | T | S | 21 U | P | 22 S | U | 23 S | T | A | I | N | S |
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24 Y | E | N | 25 M | O | C | K | 26 R | A | Y | S |
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27 S | 28 E | N | D | S | 29 P | A | C | K | I | 30 N | G | |||
31 O | B | I | 32 A | R | K | 33 T | I | E | 34 S | 35 T | 36 O |
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37 S | E | N | 38 S | 39 O | R | Y | 40 B | O | B | T | A | I | L |
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41 O | N | E | T | W | O | 42 A | L | W | 43 N | R | A |
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44 A | L | L | 45 O | F | A | S | 46 U | 47 D | D | E | N |
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48 A | 49 M | 50 E | R | 51 E | F | F | S | 52 P | E | P | ||||
53 C | A | L | E | 54 N | D | A | R | 55 A | S | S | I | 56 S | 57 T |
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58 C | H | L | O | E | 59 R | A | 60 I | N | 61 O | P | I | E |
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62 T | A | I | N | T | 63 T | Y | N | E | 64 T | E | T | E |
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65 L | E | E | S | 66 S | S | G | T | 67 O | R | E | S |
© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,361
Across
1
Umpire's call. : SAFE
5
Parts of dates. : PITS
9
Realms: Suffix. : DOMS
13
Operatic role. : IGOR
14
Shape of a pocket. : UCUT
15
Inappropriate. : UNAPT
17
Evening, in Roma. : SERA
18
Arab name for Egypt. : MISR
19
Minute groove. : STRIA
20
Begins. : SETSUP
22
Prolongs. : SUSTAINS
24
Propensity: Colloq. : YEN
25
Burlesque. : MOCK
26
Cosmic ___. : RAYS
27
Dismisses abruptly. : SENDSPACKING
31
Kimono adjunct. : OBI
32
State: Abbr. : ARK
33
Adds on. : TIESTO
37
Part of ESP. : SENSORY
40
Something abbreviated. : BOBTAIL
41
___ punch. : ONETWO
42
Sum for expenses: Abbr. : ALW
43
Initials of the 1930's. : NRA
44
Unexpectedly. : ALLOFASUDDEN
48
Yankee: Abbr. : AMER
51
Results: Abbr. : EFFS
52
Zing. : PEP
53
Orderly list. : CALENDAR
55
Baseball play. : ASSIST
58
Girl of song. : CHLOE
59
Shower. : RAIN
61
English painter. : OPIE
62
Spoil. : TAINT
63
River to the North Sea. : TYNE
64
Head: Fr. : TETE
65
Grounds. : LEES
66
An NCO. : SSGT
67
Raw materials. : ORES
Down
1
Sibilant sound. : SISS
2
Awry. : AGEE
3
Alaska's number. : FORTYNINE
4
Blotted out. : ERASED
5
Kind of shoe. : PUMP
6
Here: Fr. : ICI
7
Thick clump of grass. : TUSSOCK
8
Swung and missed. : STRUCK
9
Fine particles. : DUST
10
Well-aimed. : ONTARGET
11
Hemingway heroine. : MARIA
12
Thorny. : SPINY
16
Foreign press agency. : TASS
21
Young'___. : UNS
23
Sun Valley gear. : SKITOWS
25
Nursery rhyme character. : MARY
27
Tolerable. : SOSO
28
Man's name, for short. : EBEN
29
Released conditionally. : PAROLED
30
Pen point. : NIB
34
Plover's cousin. : SANDPIPER
35
Jade. : TIRE
36
Pearl Buck heroine. : OLAN
38
___ in the face. : STAREONE
39
Wise bird. : OWL
40
Gil ___. : BLAS
42
Brawls. : AFFRAYS
45
Bachelor ___. : OFARTS
46
Prosperous periods. : UPS
47
Spanish explorer. : DESOTO
48
C. P. A. : ACCT
49
Taj ___. : MAHAL
50
Girl's nickname. : ELLIE
54
Trawls. : NETS
55
Swiss writer. : ANET
56
Local position. : SITE
57
River of England. : TEES
60
Verb ending. : ING
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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