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Lewis
Lewis

New York Times, Friday, February 15, 1980

40-Down : Encroachments

Author:
Lewis
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { B J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Lewis has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

Clue for 46-Across is inaccurate — when Patty Duke was married to John Astin, she went by "Patty Duke Astin"; left as in the original.

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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,056
Across
1
Hupmobile or Kissel : AUTO
5
Send payment : REMIT
10
Tpk., e.g. : RTE
13
Tree-dwelling animal : SLOTH
15
Wear away : ERODE
16
Ending for a direction : ERN
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Must : HASTO
18
Dangerous woman : SIREN
19
Library unit: Abbr. : VOL
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Certain log piles : HOTDECKS
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Foot: Prefix : PEDI
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Sorted or rated : CLASSED
25
Musical intervals : THIRDS
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Part of a hoop : RIM
28
Double this for a Malayan tree : YLANG
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Start : ONSET
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Actress Mimieux : YVETTE
34
Love, hate, etc. : EMOTIONS
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Controversial issue : HOTPOTATO
38
Baker's dozen : THIRTEEN
41
Parsley's cousin : FENNEL
45
Finnish poems : RUNES
46
Patty ___ Duke : ASTIN
48
Whitney or Wallach : ELI
49
Marshals : ARRAYS
51
Actress Parsons : ESTELLE
53
Conspiracy : PLOT
54
Fast freight trains: Slang : HOTSHOTS
57
TV newscaster Lindstrom : PIA
58
Fortuneteller's card : TAROT
59
"___ Who Love": Stone : THOSE
62
Aim : END
63
Angry : IRATE
64
Sir, in Sonora : SENOR
65
Football players: Abbr. : RGS
66
Fished for congers : EELED
67
Invitation's request : RSVP
Down
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Rowan : ASH
2
Ending with form : ULA
3
Put ___ (outdo) : TOSHAME
4
Hahn, Harbach and Herz : OTTOS
5
Mignonette : RESEDA
6
Greenland's colonizer : ERIC
7
"___ and Mindy" : MORK
8
That is, to Tacitus : IDEST
9
Half a score : TEN
10
Left-hand page : REVERSO
11
Past participle of tread : TRODDEN
12
Joins a cause : ENLISTS
14
Even better than okey-dokey : HOTSYTOTSY
21
Cancel : DELETE
22
Quill : PINION
23
Hue's partner : CRY
24
Ingmar's protégée : LIV
26
Bushmen's kin : HOTTENTOTS
29
Bright lights : NEONS
30
Time based on a Lon. borough : GMT
33
Menace : THREAT
35
Stupid : OAFISH
37
Sweet or chick follower : PEA
38
Pelts-for-pelf person : TRAPPER
39
Field hockey's Irish cousin : HURLING
40
Encroachments : INROADS
42
Wrestling holds : NELSONS
43
Extension on a house : ELL
44
Fabulize : LIE
47
Tried : TESTED
50
Portion : SHARE
52
Upper regions : ETHER
55
Kind of exam : ORAL
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Kind of bag : TOTE
58
Equal score : TIE
60
Soho coin : SOV
61
Marshall Plan initials : ERP

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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