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George Laczko
George Laczko

New York Times, Friday, May 19, 1967

25-Down : Prisoners' base.

Author:
George Laczko
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 296 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
George Laczko has 37 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,488
Across
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Y.M.C.A. or Y.M.H.A. : ASSN
5
Eastern potentates. : AGAS
9
Put off. : DEFER
14
Palm tree. : COCO
15
In the upper brackets. : RICH
16
Seep. : EXUDE
17
Region on the Rhine. : RUHR
18
In authority. : OVER
19
Bulky. : LARGE
20
Conceit. : EGO
21
Petitioner. : SUER
22
Bequeathed. : WILLED
23
Travelogue, for instance. : SHORTSUBJECT
26
Fields of knowledge. : LORES
27
Discomfits. : ABASHES
31
Pacific islands. : SAMOAS
33
Hand, often in glove. : FIST
34
Verse form. : ODE
35
Fasten firmly. : CLAMP
36
Presidential nickname. : CAL
37
Sidestep. : ELUDE
39
Blade. : OAR
40
Handle. : HILT
42
Kyushu volcano. : ASOSAN
43
Baked meat dish. : TIMBALE
45
Follow. : ENSUE
46
Recent Broadway comedy. : ANYWEDNESDAY
50
Cornell's lake. : CAYUGA
53
Mortgage. : LIEN
54
___ de France. : ILE
55
Prior to: Dial. : AFORE
56
Penn State's rival. : PITT
57
Deeds: Lat. : ACTA
58
Kitchen gadget. : PARER
59
Radish, for one. : ROOT
60
Card game. : SKAT
61
Ringlet. : TRESS
62
French verb. : ETRE
63
Cow-headed goddess. : ISIS
Down
1
Farmland. : ACRES
2
Murmur of the wind. : SOUGH
3
Teacher, old style. : SCHOOLMARM
4
Neither's companion. : NOR
5
Stirs up. : AROUSES
6
"___ this day ... " : GIVEUS
7
Sharply critical. : ACERB
8
Wall Street abbreviation. : SHR
9
Lunchroom of a sort. : DELICATESSEN
10
Glorifies. : EXALTS
11
Roll up. : FURL
12
Brink. : EDGE
13
Kind of grass. : REED
21
Certain commuters. : STRAPHANGERS
22
Networks. : WEBS
24
Space. : ROOM
25
Prisoners' base. : JAIL
28
Hotel employes: Slang. : HOUSEDICKS
29
Norse literary work. : EDDA
30
Observed. : SEEN
31
Highlander. : SCOT
32
Jai ___. : ALAI
33
Prosperous. : FAT
36
Ball of thread. : CLEW
38
Gehrig and others. : LOUS
41
There is: Fr. : ILYA
42
French girl's name. : ANNETTE
44
River of Bolivia. : BAURES
45
Newspaperman. : EDITOR
47
Literary light. : ELIOT
48
Mongolian range. : ALTAI
49
Irish poet. : YEATS
50
Navy man: Abbr. : CAPT
51
At a distance. : AFAR
52
Of ___ (of long ago). : YORE
56
Before: Prefix. : PRE
57
___ live and breathe! : ASI

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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