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Keith Blake
Keith Blake

TIME REMEMBERED

New York Times, Sunday, January 9, 1972

4-Down : New Year Guy

Author:
Keith Blake
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 88, Avg Word Len: 5.12, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 563 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 109, Cheaters: 20, FITB: 12, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 16
Keith Blake has 6 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1972, The New York TimesNo. 8,184
Across
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French soldier : POILU
6
Month: Abbr. : MAR
9
Western lake : MEAD
13
Stupid one : ASS
16
Baseball statistic : ERROR
17
Frosted : ICED
19
"___ assisted by ... " : ABLY
20
Gay ___ : PAREE
22
Swarms : TEEMS
23
What leap-year dates are : DIVISIBLEBYFOUR
26
Cleft in parts : BIFID
28
Like heads on schooners : SUDSY
29
Actress Landi : ELISSA
30
"Crabbed ___ youth cannot ... " : AGEAND
33
Unfold, to poets : OPE
34
Triangular inserts : GORES
35
Overtime for 1972 : FEBRUARYTWENTYNINE
42
Sheep flocks : FOLDS
43
Merits : EARNS
44
Archeologists' milieu : RUINS
45
French beverage : THE
48
Peculiar: Prefix : IDIO
49
Aspen gear : SKI
50
Ten percenter: Abbr. : AGT
51
Reagan, for short : RON
52
Crosses out : XES
53
"Ring out the ___" (Tennyson) : THOUSANDWARSOFOLD
61
Brief : SHORT
62
Gulls : FOOLS
63
Poplars : ABELES
64
Laconic words of defeat : WELOST
66
"When constabulary ___ to be done" : DUTYS
67
In a keen way : AVIDLY
68
Esprit de corps : MORALE
69
___-comic drama : SERIO
70
Shares: Fr. : ECOTS
71
1800, 1900, 2000 : CENTENNIALNUMBERS
74
Wee, in Scotland : SMA
77
Wrong: Prefix : MIS
78
Roulette bet : ODD
79
Linkletter : ART
80
All-night cafe sign : OPEN
81
Doer: Suffix : IST
82
Younger son : CADET
84
Singer Callas : MARIA
86
Campaign line-up : SLATE
87
Ecclesiastical time reckoners : LUNISOLARCALENDARS
90
Liszt or Lehar : FRANZ
92
Bow : ARC
93
Tasket's mate : TISKET
94
Words for a black sheep : BAABAA
95
Chesterton's middle name : KEITH
97
Nautical term : ABAFT
99
What 35 Across makes 1972 : INTERCALARYYEAR
102
Novices : TYROS
106
Nag : SCOLD
107
Ponder : MUSE
108
Miffed : SORE
109
Leave out : ELIDE
110
Roget specialty: Abbr. : SYN
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Cut : AXED
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Good as ___ : NEW
113
Old fiddle : REBEC
Down
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Favorite : PET
2
Swedish coin : ORE
3
Fury : IRE
4
New Year Guy : LOMBARDO
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College in Collegeville : URSINUS
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Area of France : MIDI
7
Kind of test : ACID
8
Race an engine : REV
9
Kind of voyage : MAIDEN
10
Declines : EBBS
11
Associate : ALLY
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Hair job : DYE
13
Originated : AROSE
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Dr. of cartoon books : SEUSS
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Evening, in Eboli : SERA
18
Repudiate : DISOWN
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Air-race markers : PYLONS
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Burning : AFIRE
24
Movie extras, for short : SUPES
25
Set out : BEGIN
27
Govt. agency : FDA
30
Attach : AFFIX
31
Hollow rock : GEODE
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Satan : EBLIS
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Tahoe, e.g. : RESORT
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Siberian : YAKUT
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Speaker : TRIS
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Nets : TRAWLS
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Hindu ages : YUGAS
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Chem. prefix : NITR
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Fish in a way : TROLL
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Like old socks : HOLEY
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Concludes : ENDS
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Oar pin : THOLE
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Pants: Ger. : HOSEN
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Rolled up : AFURL
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Out : NOTIN
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"___ see what I see?" : DOYOU
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Relish : SAVOR
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News items : OBITS
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G-men, e.g. : FEDS
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Blind strip : SLAT
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"___ me!" : WOEIS
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Painter Max : ERNST
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___ the world (asleep) : DEADTO
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Chem. liquid : ACETAL
68
Year McKinley was shot : MCMI
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Factions : SIDES
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Drunk: Sp. : EBRIA
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Knobs : NODI
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Connelly : MARC
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Belgian premier : SPAAK
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Fr. measure : METRE
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"___of robins in ... " : ANEST
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Kind of type : OLDSTYLE
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Ship line : CUNARD
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Aussie : ANZAC
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Borgnine film : MARTY
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Mehitabel's friend et al. : ARCHYS
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Short snort : SNIFTER
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Tag : LABEL
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Hid away, as an animal : LAIRED
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Greek letter : ETA
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Caprice : FANCY
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Boca ___ : RATON
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Bite: Ger. : BISS
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Part of K.K.K. : KLUX
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Naturalness : EASE
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Swiss river : AARE
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Prepare tea : BREW
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M.Ds.' org. : AMA
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Long time : EON
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Kid : RIB
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Poem : ODE
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Short time : SEC

Answer summary:
14 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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