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Daughdrille
Daughdrille

New York Times, Tuesday, December 4, 1979

23-Down : William of the apple

Author:
Daughdrille
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has duplicate clues.
Daughdrille has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,983
Across
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Amidst : WITH
5
Tender : OFFER
10
Lake named for an engineer : MEAD
14
Space : AREA
15
Crown : TIARA
16
Folk singer Guthrie : ARLO
17
Conform : DOASTHEROMANSDO
20
India or red : INK
21
"___ Johnny!" : HERES
22
Dynamo : MOTOR
23
Whig's opposite : TORY
24
Feb., Mar., ___ : APR
25
Risk of a sort : WAGER
28
Insulator : ASBESTOS
33
Body of water north of Iran : ARAL
34
Part of a circle : SECTOR
36
Group of the lower Niger : IBO
37
Conform : FOLLOWTHELEADER
40
That, in Madrid : ESO
41
Exclusive license : PATENT
42
Wear well : LAST
43
Stuffed : REPLETED
45
Word with half or platform : SOLES
46
U.S.N. officer : ENS
47
First-rate : AONE
49
Get on a soapbox : ORATE
52
Baby-bottle unit : OUNCE
54
Soup vegetable : PEA
57
Conform : DONTROCKTHEBOAT
60
Love to excess : DOTE
61
Guide : STEER
62
Likewise : ALSO
63
Rouse : STIR
64
En ___ (all together) : MASSE
65
Abound : TEEM
Down
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Valley, as in Arabia or Africa : WADI
2
Press : IRON
3
Boat material : TEAK
4
Owns : HAS
5
Word with wise : OTHER
6
Igneous : FIERY
7
Cabbie's concern : FARE
8
The Graces waited on him : EROS
9
Aries : RAM
10
Lords' residences : MANORS
11
First, in Frankfurt : ERST
12
Actor Ray : ALDO
13
Portal : DOOR
18
Thunder god : THOR
19
French physicist: 1775-1836 : AMPERE
23
William of the apple : TELL
24
Like ___ from the blue : ABOLT
25
Cracker : WAFER
26
Got up : AROSE
27
Lively dance : GALOP
28
Hurt : ACHED
29
British gun : STEN
30
___ wave : TIDAL
31
Pudgy : OBESE
32
Kinds : SORTS
34
Sharp blows : SWATS
35
Feminine suffix : ETTE
38
Eye or can follower : OPENER
39
Lily plant : ALOE
44
Missive : LETTER
45
Dirk of yore : SNEE
47
Pays up : ANTES
48
Pigment : OCHRE
49
Tote-board numbers : ODDS
50
Origin : ROOT
51
One on the "nay" side : ANTI
52
Prefix for eight : OCTA
53
Kin of guitars : UKES
54
Mast : POLE
55
Allay : EASE
56
Fissionable item : ATOM
58
Odor: Comb. form : OSM
59
Night flier : BAT

Answer summary:
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