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Daniel Girardi
Daniel Girardi

New York Times, Friday, April 12, 1974

2-Down : Pierside call

Author:
Daniel Girardi
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Daniel Girardi has 41 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,008
Across
1
Road sign : GAS
4
Hairpiece : RAT
7
Go swiftly : SCOOT
12
Feeler : PALP
13
Russian river : NEVA
14
Crossbeam : TRAVE
15
She, in France : ELLE
16
Range part : OVEN
17
Horse opera : OATER
18
U. S. writer and space man of comics : PEARLBUCKROGERS
21
Say "cheese" : SMILE
22
Young sheep : TEG
23
Marie, for one: Abbr. : STE
24
"___ bin ein Berliner" : ICH
26
Old Italian coins : TESTONES
29
"Dieu et mon ___" : DROIT
31
Hawaiian bird : IWA
32
Actor Kruger : OTTO
36
English poet and ex-golf star : LORDBYRONNELSON
40
Dueling piece : EPEE
41
Ancestor, in Germany : AHN
42
Arrange : SEETO
43
Ex-Secretary Dean and family : ACHESONS
47
Region: Abbr. : TER
48
Draft org. : SSS
51
Goose eggs : OOO
52
Smells : REEKS
54
Ballplayer and famous mother : PETEROSEKENNEDY
59
Copycats : APERS
60
Care for : TEND
61
Hair style : AFRO
62
Field steps : STILE
63
Greek god : ARES
64
Attlee, to friends : CLEM
65
French impressionist : MANET
66
Small dog : TOY
67
English dramatist : KYD
Down
1
High wind : GALE
2
Pierside call : ALLASHORE
3
Kind of whale : SPERM
4
Stage offerings : REVUES
5
With, in Tours : AVEC
6
Relative of a whistle stop : TANKTOWN
7
Comic's foil : STOOGE
8
Steep rock : CRAG
9
Popish Plot figure : OATES
10
Unconcealed : OVERT
11
Pithy : TERSE
12
Zing : PEP
13
Like Hoover's experiment : NOBLE
19
Degree in letters : LITTB
20
French philologist : RENAN
24
Vain : IDLE
25
Trim a photo : CROP
27
Action suffixes : TIONS
28
Only : SOLE
30
Notion : IDEA
33
African disease carrier : TSETSEFLY
34
Kind of bag : TOTE
35
___ about : ONOR
37
Uncouth person : YAHOO
38
Regulator for houselights : RHEOSTAT
39
Ruhr city : ESSEN
44
Wasp-waist creator : CORSET
45
Scottish islands : ORKNEY
46
Wants : NEEDS
48
Spell of energy : SPASM
49
Plant walls : SEPTA
50
Gertrude or Ein : STEIN
53
Flair : KNACK
55
Perry's creator : ERLE
56
Saarinen : EERO
57
Scott : DRED
58
___ Kippur : YOM

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 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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