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David A. Scully
David A. Scully

New York Times, Thursday, April 6, 1978

18-Down : Loud, strident noises

Author:
David A. Scully
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 11, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
David A. Scully has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,463
Across
1
Pulse : BEAT
5
"Father of London's bobbies" : PEEL
9
Gasp : PANT
13
London's Marble ___ : ARCH
14
City in Italy : ENNA
15
Tobacco pipe : BRIAR
16
Threadneedle Street, ___ of London's commerce : SITE
17
Town near Bath : TROWBRIDGE
19
London's international airport : HEATHROW
21
British sailors : LIMEYS
22
Eye, in Nice : OEIL
23
S.A. rodent : PACA
24
Sample a library's offerings : BROWSE
27
Street bordering 40 Across : PARKLANE
31
Entices : LURES
32
Baby born from March 21 to April 19 : ARIES
33
Boz was Dickens's ___ de plume : NOM
34
Person on a meterman's list : USER
35
Sights in Kensington Gardens : SWANS
36
Tennyson heroine : ENID
37
Victoria, in London: Abbr. : STA
38
___ Gould, Olympics swimming star : SHANE
39
Kind of drum : SNARE
40
Location of London's "Speakers' Corner" : HYDEPARK
42
British drummers : BAGMEN
43
Dissolute fellow : RAKE
44
Type of bank : SOIL
45
Recess : ALCOVE
48
Stratford-___ : UPONAVON
52
London borough : PADDINGTON
54
Roman tyrant : NERO
55
Steve or Woody : ALLEN
56
Make an English muffin : BAKE
57
Victorian expletive : DRAT
58
Incursion : RAID
59
"___ Funny That Way," 1928 song : SHES
60
Garage or fire follower : SALE
Down
1
Party, British style : BASH
2
Where the British lost to Perry: 1813 : ERIE
3
Minutes of a meeting : ACTA
4
Historic structure on the Thames : THETOWER
5
Famed English archeologist : PETRIE
6
Sign up at Oxford : ENROL
7
" ... Paradise ___" : ENOW
8
Barrister's province : LAW
9
Primitive : PRIMAL
10
Officer's assistant : AIDE
11
Hungary's Imre : NAGY
12
Very, in Vienne : TRES
15
Mason's burden : BRICKS
18
Loud, strident noises : BLARES
20
Nazi interned in England: 1941 : HESS
23
England's literary foe in '76 : PAINE
24
Show embarrassment : BLUSH
25
Out of practice : RUSTY
26
Mountain nymph : OREAD
27
April 1st activity : PRANK
28
Part of Vietnam : ANNAM
29
"La Tulipe ___": Dumas : NOIRE
30
German naval base in W.W. II : EMDEN
32
Sentient : AWARE
35
Like people in a small accident : SHAKEN
36
"In ___ green and pleasant land": Blake : ENGLANDS
38
Horse's leg ailment : SPAVIN
39
"Spahn and ___, and pray for rain" : SAIN
41
Worn away : ERODED
42
Daniel and Pat : BOONES
44
Radius : SPOKE
45
On ___ with (equal to) : APAR
46
Tra followers : LALA
47
Fifth-century date : CDLI
48
Where Ogden is : UTAH
49
Ralston of old films : VERA
50
Spoken : ORAL
51
Diplomatic communication : NOTE
53
Shavian monogram : GBS

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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