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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Monday, March 23, 1987

31-Down : Coincide

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { C Q X Y }, Scrabble score: 262 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,649
Across
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Venetian traveler : POLO
5
Golden Horde member : TATAR
10
Novelist Wister : OWEN
14
Composer Stravinsky : IGOR
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Dispense with nuptials : ELOPE
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Polynesian gesture dance : SIVA
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Actress from Wash. : ELLARAINES
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Plod in mire : SLOG
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Singer from Mich. : DELLAREESE
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Seine sights : ILES
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Buddhist branch : ZEN
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Anagram for dote : TOED
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Subsided gradually : LAPSED
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TV performer's reward for reruns : RESIDUAL
33
Aids a felon : ABETS
34
Sail afore the foremast : JIB
35
Slow, to Mehta : LARGO
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Stinging sensation : BITE
37
Springsteen's birthplace : USA
38
Spanish length unit : VARA
39
Medieval bailiff : REEVE
41
Hideaway : DEN
42
Yearned : PINED
43
Appraiser : ASSESSOR
45
Sews loosely : BASTES
46
Bridge position : EAST
47
Small island : AIT
48
Peat, for one : FUEL
50
Actor from Egypt : OMARSHARIF
57
Eng. : ANGL
58
Drummer-songwriter from England : RINGOSTARR
59
___ fixe : IDEE
60
Singer John : ELTON
61
Hautboy : OBOE
62
Desolate : LORN
63
Revue components : SKITS
64
Candy flavor : MINT
Down
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___-à-terre : PIED
2
Make eyes at : OGLE
3
Lounge : LOLL
4
Preacher Roberts : ORAL
5
Started to cry : TEARED
6
Outlander : ALIEN
7
Whole step, in music : TONE
8
Gibbons : APES
9
Treats a broken bone : RESETS
10
Actor-writer from Ga. : OSSIEDAVIS
11
Historian from Mass. : WILLDURANT
12
Bacchanal's cry : EVOE
13
Badgers : NAGS
18
Tears down : RAZES
24
Neat's-foot ___ : OIL
25
Insect's lips : LABRA
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"___ Irish Rose" : ABIES
27
Singer from N.Y. : PETESEEGER
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Entertainer from N.Y. : STEVEALLEN
29
Staircase part : RISER
30
Author of "My People" : EBAN
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Coincide : AGREE
32
Oodles : LOADS
34
A martial art : JUDO
40
Curve : ESS
42
Tracks : PATHS
44
Caches : STORES
45
Buffaloes : BISONS
47
Patois : ARGOT
48
Go bankrupt : FAIL
49
Loosen : UNDO
51
Exploit, in a way : MILK
52
Opponent : ANTI
53
Energy source : ATOM
54
Physics Nobelist: 1944 : RABI
55
Do laundry work : IRON
56
Guitar part : FRET

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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