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Meltzer
Meltzer

New York Times, Saturday, April 29, 1978

4-Down : Double quartet

Author:
Meltzer
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 248 (avg 1.34)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Meltzer has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,486
Across
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Fly away, fly! : SHOO
5
Emperor after Galba : OTHO
9
Iranian coins : RIALS
14
Dusting powder : TALC
15
Jogging pace : TROT
16
Follow : ENSUE
17
Smell ___ (be suspicious) : ARAT
18
Type of salad dressing : IOOOISLAND
20
Make an all-out effort : GIVEIOOPERCENT
22
Three tsps. : TBSP
23
No longer fashionable : OUT
24
Mexican Mrs. : SRA
27
Some M.I.T. grads. : EES
28
Ten minus nine : ONE
29
Smidgen : DAB
32
Kind of bear or hare : POLAR
34
French pronoun : LUI
35
___ colada (cocktail) : PINA
36
Film based on Christie thriller : IOLITTLEINDIANS
40
Saudi sachem : EMIR
41
Subsidize : AID
42
Languor : ENNUI
43
Prefix with drome and thesis : SYN
44
Stretch the budget : EKE
45
___ Clemente : SAN
47
Start of the Three Musketeers' motto : ALL
48
Hole-in-one : ACE
49
Indigo source : ANIL
51
Decalogue : IOCOMMANDMENTS
58
Millipede : IOOOLEGGER
59
Author Vidal : GORE
60
French landscapist: 1811-1889 : DUPRE
61
Artifice : RUSE
62
Maintain : AVER
63
Orgs. : ASSNS
64
Square-dance groups : SETS
65
Chad or Tanganyika : LAKE
Down
1
Bachelor party : STAG
2
Mata ___ : HARI
3
Scandinavian monarch : OLAV
4
Double quartet : OCTET
5
Idle; futile : OTIOSE
6
Cavalry, infantry, etc. : TROOPS
7
McAdoo's target : HOOP
8
Indian or Western county : OTOE
9
Dunkirk event: 1940 : RESCUE
10
Waterway : INLET
11
" ... ___ elephant's eye" : ASAN
12
Fontanne's late husband : LUNT
13
Latin opposite of et : SED
19
___ the fire (enterprise) : IRONIN
21
"Escales" composer : IBERT
24
Undercover men : SPIES
25
Commodious : ROOMY
26
Dog-tired : ALLIN
28
Parisian's O.K. : OUI
29
Moon goddess : DIANA
30
Cancel : ANNUL
31
Sweet herb : BASIL
33
Cavatina : AIR
34
Emulated the Pied Piper : LED
35
Fasten : PIN
37
"___ to your leader" : TAKEME
38
Palter : LIE
39
Popular cloth on campus : DENIM
44
Places for étudiants : ECOLES
45
Least deranged : SANEST
46
Guitarist Segovia : ANDRES
48
Oak seed : ACORN
50
Word with tender or age : LEGAL
51
Chits : IOUS
52
Interjection for droppers and spillers : OOPS
53
Martin and Mauch: Abbr. : MGRS
54
The shakes : AGUE
55
Star that brightens and fades : NOVA
56
Long haul : TREK
57
Wizened : SERE
58
Lupino : IDA

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

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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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