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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

New York Times, Saturday, November 6, 1982

40-Down : Intrepid

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { none — this is a pangram }, Scrabble score: 328 (avg 1.74)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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F
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,051
Across
1
"Sí, sí!" in Bonn : JAJA
5
Choir offering : PSALM
10
Hands : CREW
14
Cheers for Charo : OLES
15
Confused : ATSEA
16
Vex : RILE
17
New Zealander : KIWI
18
Intemperate : DISSIPATED
20
___ out (stretch) : EKE
21
River into Solway Firth : EDEN
22
Hyderabad V.I.P. : NIZAM
23
Takes it easy : RELAXES
25
Ali, once : CLAY
26
Browsed : FED
27
Unruffled : TRANQUIL
31
"Golden Boy" playwright : ODETS
34
Utter : PRONOUNCE
35
Signal, in a way : WAVE
36
Thump : POUND
37
Patent predecessor : IDEA
38
Forever : ETERNALLY
40
Explanatory note : GLOSS
41
Lake Erie port : SANDUSKY
42
Pipistrelle : BAT
43
"___ Long Way ... " : ITSA
44
Lasses : DAMSELS
48
Lou ___, pop singer : MONTE
50
Walesa, e.g. : POLE
51
Indy area : PIT
52
Kind of mint : PENNYROYAL
54
Speck : MOTE
55
Scold : RATE
56
Pope's seal : BULLA
57
Yearn : ACHE
58
Smell : ODOR
59
Highway sign : YIELD
60
Unburden : SHED
Down
1
Wit : JOKER
2
Indistinguishable : ALIKE
3
Peridot : JEWEL
4
Start of a Faulkner title : ASI
5
Like Dorsett's shoulders : PADDED
6
Where gilts live : STIES
7
Part of Y.M.C.A. : ASSN
8
Author Whitten : LES
9
Largest of the Orkneys : MAINLAND
10
Bedspreads : CRAZYQUILTS
11
Beatles' meter maid : RITA
12
Certain sch. : ELEM
13
United : WED
19
Forte's musical antithesis : PIANO
21
Arithmetic for Rooney : EXES
24
Postprandial : AFTERDINNER
25
Pal : CRONY
27
Sign-off word : TRULY
28
Ruin : UNDO
29
Summer treats : ICES
30
Pasturelands : LEAS
31
Charges it : OWES
32
Scientists' notes : DATA
33
Neck and neck : EVEN
34
Welk offering : POLKA
36
Man in the street : PASSERBY
39
Daft : NUTTY
40
Intrepid : GAME
42
Minstrel's forte : BALLAD
44
Factotum : DOALL
45
Historic period : EPOCH
46
Willowy : LITHE
47
Incitatus, e.g. : STEED
48
Famed anthropologist : MEAD
49
In the know : ONTO
50
Famed war reporter : PYLE
52
Favoring : PRO
53
Québec affirmation : OUI
54
P.T.A. types : MAS

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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