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Victor Goldfarb
Victor Goldfarb

New York Times, Friday, April 25, 1975

61-Down : ___ and Thummim

Author:
Victor Goldfarb
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F J Q V X }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Victor Goldfarb has 17 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,386
Across
1
Ticket part : STUB
5
Comedian Bert : LAHR
9
Braid : PLAIT
14
Small harp : LYRE
15
Anne Nichols character : ABIE
16
Citation, for one : HORSE
17
October stone : OPAL
18
Eye-pupil dilator : BELLADONNA
20
Slacks style : BELLBOTTOM
22
Little ones : TOTS
23
Kind of hog : WART
24
Suffer : AIL
26
Spinning : AREEL
29
Not Rep. or Dem. : IND
31
Severe : STARK
36
Ned ___ of dime novels : BUNTLINE
38
Magazine worker : EDITOR
39
Asian nurse : AMAH
40
Go-between : AGENT
42
Scale unit : NOTE
43
Does banquet work : CATERS
45
Handle of a sort : DOORKNOB
47
Put on the ready : ALERT
48
Concorde, e.g. : SST
49
Old yarn measures : HEERS
50
Barfly : SOT
52
Unoriginal one : APER
54
Word in an Erskine Caldwell title : ACRE
58
Hat-wearer on Capitol Hill : BELLAABZUG
63
Herzog's creator : SAULBELLOW
65
Saarinen : EERO
66
Hall of Famer Ralph : KINER
67
Miss Redgrave : LYNN
68
Deposited : LAID
69
Lip-curling gesture : SNEER
70
Greek Mars : ARES
71
Legal degrees : LLMS
Down
1
Boorish one : SLOB
2
Elite or Roman : TYPE
3
Russian river : URAL
4
V.I.P. among sheep : BELLWETHER
5
U.S. department : LABOR
6
Giving support to : ABETTING
7
Sword part : HILT
8
Get ready to shoot again : RELOAD
9
Third degree, in a scholastic sense : PHD
10
Plunder : LOOT
11
U.S. cartoonist : ARNO
12
"___ it a lovely day?" : ISNT
13
Jasmine and oolong : TEAS
19
French friend : AMI
21
Lucille or volley : BALL
25
Drug initials : LSD
26
Hemp fiber : ABACA
27
Indian kerchief : RUMAL
28
Maternal relative : ENATE
30
Requisites : NEEDS
32
Resident of Never-Never Land : TINKERBELL
33
Make up for : ATONE
34
Copter part : ROTOR
35
Medical Nobelist, 1953 : KREBS
37
Initials in a plane cockpit : IAS
38
Ike's command : ETO
41
"We Are ___" : NOTALONE
44
Wall St. term: Abbr. : RTS
46
Ostrichlike bird : RHEA
48
___ Polaris : STELLA
51
British decoration : OBE
53
Hocks : PAWNS
54
Desires : ASKS
55
Author James M. : CAIN
56
Norse poem : RUNE
57
Robt. ___ : ELEE
59
Welsh sea god : LLYR
60
Diligence : ZEAL
61
___ and Thummim : URIM
62
Olympus residents : GODS
64
Wintry sound : BRR

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 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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