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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

New York Times, Saturday, January 18, 1986

44-Down : Fix firmly

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.50, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 297 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 14, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,220
Across
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Vowel mark : BREVE
6
Shoe sizes : TENAS
11
Hogwash : DRIVEL
12
Masqat men : OMANIS
14
Sign accompanied by "Keep Out" : PRIVATEPROPERTY
17
Apparel : ROBES
18
Actress Kelton : PERT
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Trillion: Prefix : TERA
20
Geriatrician's patients : AGED
21
Dice throw below Little Joe : THREE
22
E.R.A. supporter : NOW
23
Only, in Bonn : NUR
24
Derby winner: 1955 : SWAPS
25
Salad item : CHIVE
27
Arch support : KEYSTONE
29
Sonant : VOICED
30
Cutaway features : COATTAILS
32
Withdraw : DEPART
35
Jacquerie : UPRISING
39
Singer Cara : IRENE
40
Lacquer : JAPAN
41
Cuzco cash : SOL
42
Like Mary Quant's style : MOD
43
Calamitous : FATAL
44
Vatican tribunal : ROTA
45
Furniture style : ADAM
47
Recumbent one : LIER
48
Loose jacket of yore : SIMAR
49
Mail address : GENERALDELIVERY
52
Chip shot or putt : STROKE
53
White-sales buy : NAPERY
54
Ran up : SEWED
55
Uses litmus paper : TESTS
Down
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Payola : BRIBERY
2
Cleft : RIVED
3
Gabor and Braun : EVAS
4
Old pro : VET
5
Babar of fiction : ELEPHANT
6
TV's Liz ___ : TORRES
7
Overplay : EMOTE
8
Suede surface : NAP
9
"They have prepared ___ ... ": Psalm 57 : ANET
10
Alluring : SIRENIC
11
Seaplane's anchor : DROGUE
13
Tried hard : STROVE
14
Gambado : PRANK
15
Caused to continue : PERPETUATED
16
Maneuvered a spaceship : YAWED
21
___ a time (in pairs) : TWOAT
24
Emporium : STORE
25
Bobwhite : COLIN
26
Sibilant sound : HISS
28
Give the once-over : SCAN
29
Of an infection : VIRAL
31
Plain to see : APPARENT
32
Joltin' Joe : DIMAG
33
Subjects to detrition : ERODES
34
Doctrinaires' kin : PEDANTS
36
Chemical compounds resembling others : ISOMERS
37
Official attester : NOTARY
38
Like sun on ice : GLARY
40
Incarcerated : JAILED
43
Spall : FLAKE
44
Fix firmly : RIVET
46
Belittling adjective : MERE
48
Tastes : SIPS
50
Brouhaha : ROW
51
Papuan town : LAE

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

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