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Joel D. Lafargue
Joel D. Lafargue

New York Times, Thursday, May 14, 1992

33-Down : They hold water

Author:
Joel D. Lafargue
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { none — this is a pangram }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Joel D. Lafargue has 51 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,528
Across
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Fight grime : WASH
5
One's place : STEAD
10
___ Cities, Ill.-Iowa : QUAD
14
Concerning : ASTO
15
Tabriz citizen : IRANI
16
Hindustani : URDU
17
Note paper? : SHEETMUSIC
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"The African Queen" screenwriter : AGEE
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"The Gold Bug" author : POE
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Help a hood : ABET
22
Arcade scrip : TOKENS
24
Word Clemens likes to hear : STRIKE
26
Spelunker's interest : CAVE
27
Mayo clinic? : DELICATESSEN
33
Count in a carton : DOZEN
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Further on in years : OLDER
37
To's partner : FRO
38
"Jake's Thing" writer : AMIS
39
"Bone" some people throw : DIE
40
Two-handed card game : JASS
41
On a dial, they're 6 : MNO
42
House coat? : PAINT
44
"When I'm ___ -four": Beatles : SIXTY
45
Big-band tune for a trio? : SINGSINGSING
48
Chest sound : RALE
49
Cosby's TV wife : RASHAD
53
Ariel, for one : SPRITE
56
Borodin's "Prince ___" : IGOR
58
" ... ___ I saw Elba" : ERE
59
Mrs. Sprat's no-no : LEAN
60
Grounds for divorce? : RENONEVADA
63
Kim's "The Marrying Man" co-star : ALEC
64
Put one's two cents in : OPINE
65
Hagman's leading lady: 1965 : EDEN
66
Be compatible : MESH
67
Saltpeter : NITER
68
Slave is seen in anagram : ESNE
Down
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Flying stingers : WASPS
2
Like ___ (immediately) : ASHOT
3
Direct cattle? : STEER
4
Weeder's tool : HOE
5
Abu ___ of Egypt : SIMBEL
6
Choice on a test : TRUE
7
A N.Y.C. river : EAST
8
Little orphan bird? : ANI
9
Give orders : DICTATE
10
They can move mountains : QUAKES
11
Exhort : URGE
12
Yemen's largest city : ADEN
13
Club member's payment : DUES
18
Occupied, as a seat : TAKEN
23
Ham's sentence ender : OVER
25
Fate date : IDES
26
Future officers : CADETS
28
Medicine-chest item : IODINE
29
Peach variety : CLING
30
'Tain't photocopy? : SFAX
31
Once, once : ERST
32
Inquisitive : NOSY
33
They hold water : DAMS
34
Dominique's domain : OMNI
35
Utah national park : ZION
40
Lively steps : JIGS
42
Exam for jrs. : PSAT
43
Section of a wing : AILERON
44
Trap drum? : SNARE
46
Fictional Yule baddie : GRINCH
47
He tends to pressing matters : IRONER
50
Pre-kickoff call : HEADS
51
She was "Our Miss Brooks" : ARDEN
52
He recruited Lafayette : DEANE
53
Coup by Goren : SLAM
54
Former Cosmos great : PELE
55
Charlotte and Norma : RAES
56
"What's ___ for me?" : INIT
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Not "all there"? : GONE
61
Cure or gram preceder : EPI
62
Winnie's sign : VEE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 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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