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Joseph McLaughlin
Joseph McLaughlin

New York Times, Friday, May 10, 1974

5-Down : "The ___ Experiment" (Rimmer)

Author:
Joseph McLaughlin
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
Joseph McLaughlin has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,036
Across
1
Publisher and punster : CERF
5
Rude homes : HUTS
9
Germ cell : SPORE
14
"___ There" : OVER
15
Loop, in anatomy : ANSA
16
Poet W. H. : AUDEN
17
Much-traveled captain : NEMO
18
Welcome chore for a publisher : REPRINTING
20
Copy-editor's need : ERASER
22
One showing pleasure : GRINNER
23
"___ Happen Here" : ITCANT
26
Greek letter : ETA
27
"A friend ___ a ... " : INNEEDIS
29
With agility : NIMBLY
33
Mead's publishing partner : DODD
34
Embankment : LEVEE
36
Shoe width : EEE
37
Keats's "___ of St. Agnes" : EVE
38
Eternal : AGELESS
40
R. R. stop : STA
41
Swiss river : AAR
42
Pine substance : RESIN
43
Prepare a martini : STIR
44
Decrease : LESSEN
46
Poker Flat people : OUTCASTS
49
Cream or bag : ICE
50
Cylindrical : TERETE
51
___ Press (publisher) : UNICORN
55
___ Avon (Anthony Eden) : EARLOF
58
Illicit publishers? : BOOKMAKERS
61
___ breve : ALLA
62
Feasts, in old Rome : EPULI
63
Johnson and Heflin : VANS
64
Hammer part : PEEN
65
Biblical city : RESEN
66
Famed Italian actress : DUSE
67
Theater signs : SROS
Down
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Pine yield : CONE
2
"Be it ___ so humble ... " : EVER
3
Publishers' headaches : REMAINDERS
4
Decorated a cake : FROSTED
5
"The ___ Experiment" (Rimmer) : HARRAD
6
French number : UNE
7
Recipe unit: Abbr. : TSP
8
Puppet man : SARG
9
Mental qualities : SANITIES
10
Publisher G. P. : PUTNAM
11
Norse god : ODIN
12
Coty of France : RENE
13
Bridge builder: Abbr. : ENGR
19
Castle and Dunne : IRENES
21
Habitat : ECE
24
Blue and White : NILES
25
Nobel poet : TSELIOT
27
Excellent : IDEAL
28
Flaring stars : NOVAE
30
Publisher's goal : BESTSELLER
31
" ... war ___ begin here!" : LETIT
32
Astronomical and lunar : YEARS
35
Place of a crime, in law : VENUE
38
"The Campbells ___" : ARECOMIN
39
Classes : GENERA
43
Petty despots : SATRAPS
45
Junior scythe : SICKLE
47
Plait of hair, in France : TRESSE
48
U. S. consultant group : CEA
51
Above, in Berlin : UBER
52
Refusal word : NOPE
53
Debt chits : IOUS
54
Former Soviet police : NKVD
56
Prefix for graph or resin : OLEO
57
Devotees : FANS
59
French liquid : EAU
60
Hosp. personnel : RNS

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 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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