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Cornelia Warriner
Cornelia Warriner

New York Times, Saturday, April 7, 1979

44-Down : Fish + howls

Author:
Cornelia Warriner
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 253 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Cornelia Warriner has 8 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,742
Across
1
More recent : LATER
6
Resort : SPA
9
Lariat : RIATA
14
Divert : AMUSE
15
Stats re Louis, Ali et al. : KOS
16
Available : ONTAP
17
Trick + paths : CONTRAILS
19
Community standards : ETHOS
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Inventor Whitney : ELI
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Diamond call + court call : OUTLET
23
Being : ESSE
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About + halloo : RECALL
26
Singer Kay : STARR
28
Honorary degree held by Betty Ford : LLD
29
Place to swim + place to dream : SEABED
33
Burns and Allen Ginsberg : POETS
36
Expert + sleuth + peak : PROTECTOR
39
Shield border : ORLE
40
Rent : LEASE
41
Bluefin : TUNA
42
Precipice + circles : SCARRINGS
44
Timid soul : SISSY
45
Pelt dresser : TANNER
46
Finnish novelist: 1861-1921 : AHO
47
Fibrous Philippine plant : ABACA
50
Demesne abodes : MANORS
54
Delay : WAIT
57
Mineo + a Kennedy : SALTED
59
Item tossed into a ring : HAT
60
On the move : ASTIR
62
Norm + heir + years : PARSONAGE
64
Sifter : SIEVE
65
Greek letter : ETA
66
Telegrapher or electrician : WIRER
67
Scraped : PARED
68
Radiation unit : REM
69
Part of a black suit : SPADE
Down
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Employee in a football plant : LACER
2
Root used as soap in Mexico : AMOLE
3
Hauberk : TUNIC
4
Superlative ending : EST
5
Anent + drumbeats : REROLLS
6
Parody : SKIT
7
Election Day meccas : POLLS
8
While + coterie : ASSET
9
Fish eggs : ROE
10
Bury + deed : INTERACTION
11
Sportsmen: Abbr. : ATHS
12
Site of Kit Carson's house : TAOS
13
Choir loft : APSE
18
Old: Scot. : AULD
22
Savor : TASTE
25
Change + indigenous : ALTERNATIVE
27
Pawnee's cousin : REE
30
Heat units: Abbr. : BTUS
31
Ages upon ages : EONS
32
Delivery cart : DRAY
33
Mail : POST
34
Killer whale : ORCA
35
Zest : ELAN
36
Write : PEN
37
Cheap magazine : RAG
38
Strategic org. of W.W. II : OSS
40
Money in Ankara : LIRAS
43
Confederate : REB
44
Fish + howls : SHADOWS
46
Central Iowa city : AMES
48
Antic : CAPER
49
Winged : ALATE
51
Author of "The Lockwood Concern" : OHARA
52
Stormed : RAGED
53
Cubic meter : STERE
54
Vespiary denizen : WASP
55
Huge land area : ASIA
56
Roman way : ITER
58
Collier's vehicle : TRAM
61
Scarlet : RED
63
Pinch : NIP

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