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Floy Stryker
Floy Stryker

New York Times, Thursday, October 3, 1974

3-Down : Mercury and argon

Author:
Floy Stryker
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Floy Stryker has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,182
Across
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"Not on ___" : ABET
5
Refractor : PRISM
10
Poppycock : BOSH
14
Depend on : RELY
15
Musical direction : LENTO
16
Preposition : INTO
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Subsequently : THEREAFTER
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County or rumble : SEAT
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Snead of links : SAM
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Small harp : LYRE
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Soup ingredient : NOODLE
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Meat purchase : VEAL
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N. Y. subway line : IRT
28
West Coast ballplayer : ANGEL
29
Half a game : PING
30
Spiro and family : AGNEWS
32
Sounds of a nervous speaker : ERS
33
Tiny bit : IOTA
34
Fact : REALITY
36
Onetime, old style : ERST
37
Composer Harold : ARLEN
38
Greedy : AVID
42
Mideast action of 1973 : EMBARGO
44
Upper or hlred : HAND
45
Grab or tote : BAG
48
Flowers : ASTERS
49
Word with shoppe : OLDE
50
French pronouns : ELLES
52
Perón : EVA
53
Santa's laughter : HOHO
54
Neighbor of Yukon : ALASKA
56
Sword : EPEE
58
Miss MacGraw : ALI
60
Abrupt : CURT
61
Pawed : MANHANDLED
64
Concert halls : ODEA
65
Tufted flower : BLUET
66
Arm bone : ULNA
67
Loch ___ : NESS
68
Passages : ITERS
69
Goes to the plate : BATS
Down
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Beaux or fine : ARTS
2
Sociologist's study : BEHAVIOR
3
Mercury and argon : ELEMENTS
4
Son of Odin : TYR
5
Double or foul : PLAY
6
Store, as meat : REFRIGERATE
7
Government service : INTERNALREVENUE
8
Sault ___ Marie : STE
9
Poetic time of day : MORN
10
Plains animal : BISON
11
Nervous : ONEDGE
12
More out-of-date : STALER
13
Resort sights : HOTELS
18
Cloth measure : ELL
23
Tobacco kiln : OAST
25
Small type : AGATE
27
Morse-code user : TELEGRAPHER
29
Apple or humble : PIE
30
Mecca people : ARABS
31
Bowery characters : WINOS
35
Uncouth person : YAHOO
39
Valkyries' home base : VALHALLA
40
Lazy : INDOLENT
41
Presidential monogram : DDE
43
Catcher's wear : MASK
45
Lighthouse : BEACON
46
Refer to : ALLUDE
47
Harsh lights : GLARES
51
These, in Spain : ESTAS
53
" ... a big fat ___" : HEN
55
Both: Prefix : AMBI
57
Has a bite : EATS
59
Mrs. Cantor et al. : IDAS
62
High, in music : ALT
63
Name : DUB

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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