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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

New York Times, Thursday, January 18, 1979

7-Down : Self: Prefix

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { Q S V Z }, Scrabble score: 328 (avg 1.72)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,663
Across
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Wellington, e.g. : BOOT
5
Fine fiddle : AMATI
10
Prefix with chord : OCTA
14
River of Asia : AMUR
15
Grieve : MOURN
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Gloomy : DOUR
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French novelist : LOTI
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"The time is ___": Hamlet : OUTOFJOINT
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___ to kill (dress smashingly) : LOOKFIT
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Trip : JOURNEY
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Surgeon's recompense : FEE
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Got news : HEARD
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Bout outcome : TKO
28
Pixyish : ELFIN
30
Depart or explode : GOOFF
35
Ominous sign : WARCLOUD
37
Schoolmaster's stick : FERULE
38
Wagnerian heroine : ERDA
39
Misty : BLEAR
41
Suffix with invalid or liquid : ATOR
42
Pond life : AMEBAE
44
Exit of a sort : TRAPDOOR
46
Actress Valentine : KAREN
47
Pronouncements : DICTA
48
Sauté : FRY
49
___ Maria Remarque : ERICH
51
Criticism : RAP
53
He wrote "The Case of the Lucky Legs" : GARDNER
57
Wasted time : DIDDLED
61
___ of (get by cajolery) : WHEEDLEOUT
63
Name in Hollywood lore : MUNI
64
Mme. Bovary : EMMA
65
Indistinguishable : ALIKE
66
"___ Angel," Mae West film : IMNO
67
Downtown light : NEON
68
Tree tissue : XYLEM
69
Ski lift : TBAR
Down
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Ump's call : BALL
2
Melville novel : OMOO
3
Not operating properly : OUTOFORDER
4
Three-wheeler : TRIKE
5
Mine, in Sedan : AMOI
6
Very long word or phrase : MOUTHFUL
7
Self: Prefix : AUT
8
Plucky, energetic person : TROJAN
9
Due to get : INFOR
10
Repute : ODOR
11
Piece of change : COIN
12
Jingle : TUNE
13
Bohemian : ARTY
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Deem : JUDGE
21
Sense : FEEL
25
Of visual images retained in memory : EIDETIC
26
Pinch : TWEAK
27
Relative of kismet : KARMA
29
Earring site : LOBE
31
Toward the mouth : ORAD
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Aligned inaccurately : OUTOFPLUMB
33
Knock down : FLOOR
34
Charon's craft : FERRY
36
No ___ duda (there is no doubt): Sp. : CABE
37
Campus org. : FRAT
40
Francis Ferdinand of Austria : ARCHDUKE
43
Fiedler's "___ to Innocence" : ANEND
45
Chum, in cowboys' argot : PARD
47
In a frightful way : DIRELY
50
Take it easy : RELAX
52
Own : ADMIT
53
Miss Verdon : GWEN
54
Alas! : AHME
55
San ___, Italy : REMO
56
Martin or Swift : DEAN
58
Agenda entry : ITEM
59
Sicilian health resort : ENNA
60
Famed couturier : DIOR
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Energy source : OIL

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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