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William Lutwiniak
William Lutwiniak

New York Times, Saturday, March 30, 1985

40-Down : Seals

Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.50, Missing: { H J K Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 14, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,926
Across
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Cobra's cousin : MAMBA
6
Certain card games : SOLOS
11
Positively charged particle : CATION
12
Manifest : EVINCE
14
N.M. attraction : CARLSBADCAVERNS
17
Noted netman : ARIAS
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Spin a log : BIRL
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Meat seasoning : SAGE
20
Stew ingredient : PEAS
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Sizes up for a heist : CASES
22
Actress Zadora : PIA
23
Poetic time : EEN
24
Musical piece : MOTET
25
Open-eyed : ALERT
27
Gave up the old for the new : TRADEDIN
29
Quirks : TWISTS
30
Quadrennial college : ELECTORAL
32
Gideon gifts : BIBLES
35
Preprandial drink : APERITIF
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School, for Pierre : ECOLE
40
P.G.A.'s Sam : SNEAD
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" ... ___ drinks like a beast": Kipling : ANE
42
Blue or Hogan : BEN
43
Subscribes : SIGNS
44
Fiji's capital : SUVA
45
Leave undone : OMIT
47
Drugstore cowboy's look : OGLE
48
Carryalls : TOTES
49
Ariz. attraction : PETRIFIEDFOREST
52
Of certain words : NOUNAL
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Pressing : URGENT
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Men of ken : SEERS
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Common resources : POOLS
Down
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Poem by Tennyson : MARIANA
2
Reference work : ATLAS
3
Strindberg's "___ Julie" : MISS
4
Quick curtsy : BOB
5
Upward moving, as a wind : ANABATIC
6
Retired : SECRET
7
Locket shapes : OVALS
8
Actress Ullmann : LIV
9
Washington bills : ONES
10
Predicaments : SCRAPES
11
Race recklessly : CAREER
13
Surrounded : ENGIRT
14
King Hugh ___: 10th century : CAPET
15
Remove a snarl : DISENTANGLE
16
Theater units : SEATS
21
Hides the meaning : CODES
24
Donnybrook : MELEE
25
Edgar or Clio : AWARD
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Errol's first wife : LILI
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Dingle : DELL
29
Corp. officer : TREAS
31
Unfolded : OPENEDUP
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Jazz form : BEBOP
33
Rink employees : ICEMEN
34
Tunas' kin : BONITOS
36
Stretches tightly : TAUTENS
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Put money into : INVEST
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Lucullan spread : FEAST
40
Seals : SIGILS
43
Till now : SOFAR
44
City on the St. Lawrence : SOREL
46
Verifiable : TRUE
48
Take-out words : TOGO
50
Ending with adamant : INE
51
Backward : FRO

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2 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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