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George Madrid
New York Times, Tuesday, March 19, 1974
4-Down : Waves
Author:
George Madrid
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
George Madrid has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 S | 2 P | 3 U | 4 R | 5 G | 6 E | 7 N | 8 E | 9 O | 10 L | 11 E | 12 S |
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13 T | O | R | I | 14 E | X | E | R | 15 T | 16 N | A | V | E |
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17 R | U | G | P | 18 A | T | T | E | R | N | 19 E | B | O | N |
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20 R | E | P | A | I | R | 21 S | T | 22 A | S | H | E | D |
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23 L | A | N | A | 24 I | 25 I | T | E | |||||||
26 F | 27 U | 28 S | E | 29 A | L | L | 30 T | 31 I | M | E | L | 32 O | 33 W |
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34 A | M | P | S | 35 B | A | K | E | D | A | P | P | L | E |
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36 R | I | A | 37 F | I | R | 38 S | E | T | 39 E | L | D |
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40 G | A | R | 41 D | E | N | G | 42 A | T | E | 43 C | R | A | G |
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44 O | C | E | A | N | D | E | E | P | S | 45 E | S | S | E |
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46 T | I | C | 47 S | A | F | 48 E | R | |||||||
49 T | 50 R | I | R | E | 51 M | 52 E | 53 P | I | S | T | 54 O | 55 N | ||
56 S | A | R | I | 57 I | N | 58 D | E | X | P | A | G | E | 59 S |
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60 G | L | E | E | 61 N | O | I | R | E | 62 I | R | M | A |
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63 T | O | S | S | 64 S | A | S | S | 65 N | E | O | N |
© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 8,984
Across
1
Incentive : SPUR
5
Item for Mendel : GENE
9
Corrida calls : OLES
13
Convex moldings : TORI
14
Wield : EXERT
16
Part of an abbey : NAVE
17
Decorator's concern : RUGPATTERN
19
Black : EBON
20
Do garage work : REPAIR
21
Hid away : STASHED
23
Maui's neighbor : LANAI
25
Follower: Suffix : ITE
26
Merge : FUSE
29
Discouraging stock record : ALLTIMELOW
34
Elec. units : AMPS
35
Dessert : BAKEDAPPLE
36
River inlet : RIA
37
Red or Douglas : FIR
38
Establish : SET
39
Antiquity, formerly : ELD
40
Lovers' meeting place : GARDENGATE
43
Rugged rock : CRAG
44
Mariana Trench et al. : OCEANDEEPS
45
___ est percipi : ESSE
46
Sign of nerves : TIC
47
Less risky : SAFER
49
Old galley : TRIREME
53
Kind of ring : PISTON
56
Dress in Bombay : SARI
57
Book section : INDEXPAGES
60
Mirth : GLEE
61
Bête ___ : NOIRE
62
"___la Douce" : IRMA
63
Pitch : TOSS
64
Backtalk : SASS
65
Element : NEON
Down
1
Liner: Abbr. : STR
2
Teem : POUR
3
Impulse : URGE
4
Waves : RIPPLES
5
Become uptight : GETINABIND
6
Sweater size for Bubba Smith : EXTRALARGE
7
Born: Fr. : NEE
8
Deviates : ERRS
9
Type of dance : ONESTEP
10
Research assistants : LABHELPERS
11
Bacchanals' cry : EVOE
12
Project : SEND
15
Explosive : TNT
18
Shoe width : AAA
22
Direct toward : AIMAT
24
Family : ILK
26
City in N. Dakota : FARGO
27
Eskimo boat: Var. : UMIAC
28
Overweight men's burdens : SPARETIRES
30
Students' concerns : TESTPAPERS
31
Obsessions: Fr. : IDEESFIXES
32
Jars of Southwest : OLLAS
33
Piece of cake : WEDGE
37
Jewel-thief's friend : FENCE
41
Homes for Bossy : DAIRIES
42
Old Roman money : AES
43
Determined : CERTAIN
48
Dr. Rhine's field: Abbr. : ESP
49
N.C.O. : TSGT
50
Serbian measure : RALO
51
Part of an hr. : MIN
52
Son of Seth : ENOS
54
Fairy-tale heavy : OGRE
55
Fictional captain : NEMO
58
Circle width: Abbr. : DIA
59
Juan or Jose : SAN
Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 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.