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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Friday, May 20, 1983

5-Down : Make overtures to

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 290 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 6, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,246
Across
1
Emulated Ederle : SWAM
5
Annexes : ADDS
9
Fabric feature : WALE
13
Sugarcane shoot : LALO
14
Stay : PROP
15
Malay Archipelago island : TIMOR
16
Capital of South Yemen : ADEN
17
Cold Andes wind : PUNA
18
Parallel to : ALONG
19
French novelist: 19th century : VICTORMARIEHUGO
22
Postmaster's HQ : GPO
23
Tennis serve, sometimes : LET
24
Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
25
Aerial performer for whom a garment was named : LEOTARD
28
Conduit elbow : ELL
30
Coll. building : DORM
31
Woman's workbasket : CABA
33
Islamic prayer leaders : IMAMS
37
Film producer from Hungary : JOSEPHPASTERNAK
40
"Dum spiro, ___," S.C. motto : SPERO
41
Sir Herbert Beerbohm ___ : TREE
42
Merely : ONLY
43
Word with verily : YEA
45
Most cutting : TARTEST
47
Blueprint datum, for short : SPEC
50
Word of scorn : BAH
52
Campaigned : RAN
53
French painter: 19th century : TOULOUSELAUTREC
59
Large Roman rooms : ATRIA
60
Hoof sound : CLOP
61
Festival : GALA
62
Cram : STUFF
63
Mine, to Mitterrand : AMOI
64
Abba of Israel : EBAN
65
Army : HOST
66
___ Sta., N.Y.C. : PENN
67
Actress Foch : NINA
Down
1
Eastern European : SLAV
2
African gully : WADI
3
Actor Guinness : ALEC
4
He played in "The Misfits": 1961 : MONTGOMERYCLIFT
5
Make overtures to : APPROACH
6
Kind of roll : DRUM
7
He wrote "Great Days": 1979 : DONALDBARTHELME
8
Lean : SPARE
9
Physicist who discovered X-rays : WILHELMROENTGEN
10
"Hiroshima, Mon ___": 1959 film : AMOUR
11
Alba ___, suburb of old Rome : LONGA
12
Cereal disease : ERGOT
15
Great inventor's monogram : TAE
20
Choose : OPT
21
Ending for Brooklyn : ITE
25
Air-show maneuver : LOOP
26
Gaelic language : ERSE
27
Deeply absorbed : RAPT
29
Trygve of U.N. fame : LIE
30
Platter spinners, for short : DJS
32
In midocean : ASEA
34
Sheridan, Harding et al. : ANNS
35
Distillery material : MALT
36
Milieu of some divers : SKY
38
"Ulalume" poet : POE
39
Turtle : TERRAPIN
44
___ Dhabi (Arabian capital) : ABU
46
Sigma follower : TAU
47
Cache : STASH
48
African lemur : POTTO
49
The southeast wind : EURUS
51
Composers' org. : ASCAP
54
Lout : OAF
55
Grebe's cousin : LOON
56
Moslem month : RABI
57
Verve : ELAN
58
Site of a miracle : CANA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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