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Henry Hook
Henry Hook

New York Times, Friday, April 14, 1978

6-Down : Capt.'s deck aide

Author:
Henry Hook
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { X }, Scrabble score: 294 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Henry Hook has 33 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 25 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,471
Across
1
Phones or visits : CALLS
6
Dories and dinghies: Abbr. : BTS
9
Gary or Eugene : CITY
13
Mr. Wedgwood : JOSIAH
14
Ending with cart or harp : OON
15
Tom Joad, e.g. : OKIE
16
Amos ___ Stagg : ALONZO
17
Melt miss is an anagram for this : SLIMMEST
19
Used pseudo-flattery? : MARGARINEDUP
21
Leftovers : ORTS
22
" ... the ___ of the flesh": Eph. 2:3 : DESIRES
26
Plugs of a sort : ADS
29
Award for a TV commercial : CLIO
31
"___ not man the less": Byron : ILOVE
32
Prefix with cook or heat : PRE
33
Outdoor area on campus, for short : QUAD
34
He gives up : CEDER
35
Ersatz bread spread? : PEANUTMARGARINE
39
Insects' lower lips : LABIA
40
Successful seiner's total : HAUL
41
River in England : NEN
42
Rectify : EMEND
43
Guck or muck : OOZE
44
Piece from Pindar : ODE
45
Helmsperson : STEERER
47
Acroamatic : ORAL
50
Artificial lepidopteran? : MARGARINEFLY
55
Polo, e.g. : VENETIAN
58
"The Symphony" poet : LANIER
59
Sand wedge, e.g. : IRON
60
Dir. from Bath to London : ENE
61
Quarts, overseas : LITRES
62
Handles inelegantly : PAWS
63
Use a crosscut : SAW
64
Shade of green : ALOES
Down
1
Popular quaff : COLA
2
Hebrew lyre : ASOR
3
Jargon : LINGO
4
Shunned one : LAZAR
5
Timesaver : SHORTCUT
6
Capt.'s deck aide : BOSN
7
"Glass Capital of the World" : TOLEDO
8
Slyly malicious : SNIDE
9
One who prepares a directory : COMPILER
10
Nominee in '52 : IKE
11
Poetic contraction : TIS
12
Nevertheless : YET
13
Rush-hour situation : JAM
18
Sondheim offering : MUSICAL
20
Mohammedanism : ISLAM
23
Congressman who gained fame in July, 1974 : RODINO
24
Made equal : EVENED
25
Lacking uproar : SERENE
26
Northern Spies : APPLES
27
Had a reverie : DREAMT
28
"Bulldog cavalry" member : SEABEE
30
Only state never under a foreign flag : IDAHO
33
Printer's block of type : QUADRAT
36
___ morris, old game played with pebbles : NINEMENS
37
Barbershop need : RAZOR
38
Form of warfare: Var. : GUERILLA
43
Instruments of knowledge : ORGANA
46
Iroquoian tribe : ERIES
48
"For want of ___ ... " : ANAIL
49
Slow, to the maestro : LENTO
51
Afresh : ANEW
52
Dump from the payroll : FIRE
53
"___ Lieutenants," D. S. Freeman book : LEES
54
Calendar units: Abbr. : YRS
55
A somebody : VIP
56
Historic period : ERA
57
Feminists' org. : NOW

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 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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