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Floy Stryker
Floy Stryker

New York Times, Saturday, May 11, 1974

9-Down : Small bugs

Author:
Floy Stryker
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 30, Avg Word Len: 5.27, Missing: { G K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Floy Stryker has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,037
Across
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Football-pioneer Walter : CAMP
5
Uses an ax : HEWS
9
Solitary : ALONE
14
Range : AREA
15
Battery conductors : ELECTRODES
17
Polaris or Vega : STAR
18
Tailor's job : ALTERATION
19
Greeted the villain : HISSED
21
Took a base the hard way : SLID
22
Compass point : NNE
23
Old French coin : ECU
24
___ Mahal : TAJ
26
Newspaper notice : OBIT
28
Came up, as a U-boat : SURFACED
31
Decrees : EDICTS
35
Kid and suede : LEATHERS
37
Quick drink : SNORT
38
Gender: Abbr. : MASC
39
Heath genus : ERICA
41
Chemical endings : ENES
42
Cases : ETUIS
44
Balkan natives : SERBIANS
46
Arrange troops for battle : DEPLOY
48
Portrayed, old style : DESCRIPT
50
Observing one : EYER
52
Prefix for nomy or logy : ECO
53
Electrical unit : VAR
54
Pronoun : SHE
57
French color : BLEU
59
"___ of fire, walk ... " : INCASE
61
Connects systematically : CORRELATES
64
Handle: Lat. : ANSA
65
White minerals : ALABASTERS
66
Did a bakery job : ICED
67
"Hasten, Jason, bring the ___" : BASIN
68
Sailing : ASEA
69
Headland : NESS
Down
1
Converts, as a check : CASHES
2
Fluent : ARTICULATE
3
Meets standards : MEASURESUP
4
Golf standards : PARS
5
Worry : HEADACHE
6
Building wing : ELL
7
Moistens : WETS
8
Leg: Prefix : SCELO
9
Small bugs : ARADIDS
10
Word with vacant or sand : LOT
11
Norse deity : ODIN
12
Gas : NEON
13
Anglo-Saxon laborer : ESNE
16
Choctaw, for one : TRIBE
20
Coup d'___ : ETAT
25
Mocks : JEERS
27
Musical drawback : TINEAR
29
Smooth : FACILE
30
Preserved, as fruit : DRIED
32
Illegal cooperation : CONNIVANCE
33
Encroaches : TRESPASSES
34
Aves. : STS
36
Rocky debris : SCREE
38
Pre-___ course : MED
40
Math coordinate : ABSCISSA
43
Source of chop-suey sauce : SOYBEAN
45
Image : ICON
47
Shouts : YELLS
49
Tire parts : TREADS
51
Lasso : REATA
54
Strikebreaker : SCAB
55
Hello, in San Juan : HOLA
56
Times : ERAS
58
U. S. Indians : UTES
60
Genesis name : CAIN
62
Baseball abbr. : RBI
63
Before : ERE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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