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Woss
Woss

New York Times, Monday, April 28, 1975

27-Down : Lacks, for short

Author:
Woss
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F G K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 Grid has duplicate clues.
Woss has 1 known pre-Shortz puzzle in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,389
Across
1
Scott : DRED
5
Miss Gluck : ALMA
9
Ship's crane : DAVIT
14
Traverse : ROVE
15
Hour-signal sound : BEEP
16
Omit : ELIDE
17
Kind of corner : AMEN
18
Gather : REAP
19
Mme. de Lenclos of French fashion : NINON
20
A first lady : MARYTODDLINCOLN
23
Inhabitant of a formicary : ANT
24
Headland : RAS
25
Rose's mate : ABIE
26
Get ___ of (shed) : RID
27
Bohemian reformer : HUSS
28
Morse-code symbol : DOT
31
Caper : ANTIC
34
Florida county : DADE
35
Water game : POLO
36
A first lady : MAMIEEISENHOWER
39
Gibraltar denizens : APES
40
Parade unit : BAND
41
Irritate : ANNOY
42
Japanese coin : SEN
43
Egyptian native : COPT
44
Hue's companion : CRY
45
Man or boy : MALE
46
Overhead lines : ELS
47
Royal flush ingredient : ACE
50
A first lady : LADYBIRDJOHNSON
55
Huge, to poets : ENORM
56
Magpie : PIET
57
"___ We Got Fun?" : AINT
58
Do penance : ATONE
59
Move slowly : INCH
60
London gallery : TATE
61
Hercules or Tarzan : HEMAN
62
N.Y. five : NETS
63
Outstanding person : ONER
Down
1
O'Neill's forte : DRAMA
2
Kind of numeral : ROMAN
3
Turn inside out : EVERT
4
Turn down : DENY
5
Out of the country : ABROAD
6
Yorkshire city : LEEDS
7
Hoover Dam lake : MEAD
8
Showed approval : APPLAUDED
9
Menace of cartoons : DENNIS
10
Kind of blue gown : ALICE
11
Drink, in Roma : VINO
12
Matinee ___ : IDOL
13
Neighbor of Ky. : TENN
21
Moment : TRICE
22
Norwegian playwright : IBSEN
26
Reformer Jacob : RIIS
27
Lacks, for short : HASNT
28
Soft feathers : DOWN
29
Table staple : OLEO
30
Loyalist of 1776 : TORY
31
Candlenut trees : AMAS
32
Mane area : NAPE
33
Government agents : TMEN
34
Fastener for infant wear : DIAPERPIN
35
Shetland, for one : PONY
37
Stopping-place of fiction : EBOLI
38
Rasping : HARSH
43
Taxi drivers : CABMEN
44
Pieces of fabric : CLOTHS
45
Loy : MYRNA
46
Throw out : EJECT
47
Kind of flu : ASIAN
48
Short tale : CONTE
49
Stage direction : ENTER
50
Jacob's wife : LEAH
51
Pay one's share : ANTE
52
Fate : DOOM
53
Eat in state : DINE
54
Western alliance : NATO

Answer summary:
3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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