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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Wednesday, December 7, 1983

7-Down : Pitch stopper

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F K Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 301 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,447
Across
1
Raincoats, in Tewkesbury : MACS
5
Doorpost : JAMB
9
Noted Cremona artisan : AMATI
14
___ podrida : OLLA
15
Writer Ludwig : EMIL
16
Parachute material : NYLON
17
Oil: Comb. form : OLEI
18
Rio lass : RITA
19
Grant : AWARD
20
Song hit by J. Flynn: 1889 : DOWNWENTMCGINTY
23
Network : SYSTEM
24
Weaver or Hines : EARL
25
Actress Janet : LEIGH
28
Salad ingredient : RADISH
32
Tolerable : SOSO
35
" ... at wakes and ___": B. Jonson : ALES
37
Like some candies : MINTY
38
A Near island : ATTU
39
Ipse ___ : DIXIT
41
Word with map or hog : ROAD
42
This may be posted : STAIR
44
Aleph follower : BETH
45
Gloomy Dean : INGE
46
___ around (engages in high jinx) : HORSES
48
Wheels and ___ : DEALS
50
Dull as dishwater : BLAH
52
Titters : TEHEES
56
Rodgers-Hart song hit: 1937 : THELADYISATRAMP
61
Treat to drinks, etc. : SETUP
62
Kind of poker : DRAW
63
City south of Moscow : OREL
64
Pale green : ALOES
65
Author Jaffe : RONA
66
Town in Mozambique : SENA
67
Hair conditioner : RINSE
68
Charles J. Correll role : ANDY
69
Vortex : EDDY
Down
1
Indicative and subjunctive : MOODS
2
Pewter, e.g. : ALLOY
3
Square sail's lower corners : CLEWS
4
Song for a 13th-century French king? : SAINTLOUISBLUES
5
Tale of woe : JEREMIAD
6
Ugandan exile : AMIN
7
Pitch stopper : MITT
8
"Don't ___ Me," 1933 song hit : BLAME
9
A logogriph : ANAGRAM
10
C. Olcott's song hit: 1899 : MYWILDIRISHROSE
11
Actor Bates : ALAN
12
Civil wrong : TORT
13
___ 500 (auto race) : INDY
21
Tiny : WEE
22
Word with patrol or prowl : CAR
26
Pat : GLIB
27
Bewitched : HEXED
29
Privy to : INON
30
Young gamecock : STAG
31
London park : HYDE
32
Cummerbund : SASH
33
___ the Great: 912-73 : OTTO
34
Spica is one : STAR
36
Scene : SITE
40
Direction word, in oaters : THATAWAY
43
Backslide : RELAPSE
47
Sorry : SAD
49
Call often heard after a serve : LET
51
Serpent slain by Hercules : HYDRA
53
Auriculate : EARED
54
Revise : EMEND
55
Spread out : SPLAY
56
Tyrant : TSAR
57
Sun: Comb. form : HELI
58
College founded in 1440 : ETON
59
Niblick, for one : IRON
60
Kind of bar or bank : SAND

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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