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William Jarvis
William Jarvis

New York Times, Monday, May 28, 1979

4-Down : Agitator

Author:
William Jarvis
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 257 (avg 1.33)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
William Jarvis has 15 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,793
Across
1
Fall faller : LEAF
5
Brake of a sort : SPRAG
10
Goulash : STEW
14
Approximately : ORSO
15
Marketplace : AGORA
16
God: Comb. form : THEO
17
Spacemen : COSMONAUTS
19
___ Stanley Gardner : ERLE
20
Belgian port : OSTEND
21
Eternal : TIMELESS
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___-do-well : NEER
25
Pliny ___, U.S. inventor : EARLE
26
Coastal region : LITTORAL
30
"Can do" is his motto : SEABEE
33
Actress Sophia : LOREN
34
Platters : DISKS
36
Elbow : ELL
37
Jewish month : ADAR
38
Swearwords : OATHS
39
Fence part : RAIL
40
First word of "Home, Sweet Home" : MID
41
Rocky debris : SCREE
42
Piece of pastry : TORTE
43
Sour : ACIDIC
45
Hollows : RECESSES
47
Having a purpose : TELIC
49
Old Norse poem : RUNE
50
Made up of loosely linked incidents : EPISODIC
53
"Ivanhoe" heroine : ROWENA
57
Betty of cartoons : BOOP
58
Kind of discharge : ELECTRICAL
60
___ Domini : ANNO
61
"___ Book," by Eugene Burdick : NINAS
62
Reeves's "A Ford, ___ Lincoln" : NOTA
63
Egg's bed : NEST
64
Cheap; inferior : TATTY
65
A grandson of Adam : ENOS
Down
1
Crazy as a loon : LOCO
2
God of love : EROS
3
Helper: Abbr. : ASST
4
Agitator : FOMENTER
5
Abrasive tool : SANDER
6
Golf tourn. : PGA
7
Defeat soundly : ROUT
8
Clarinetist Shaw : ARTIE
9
Protective respirators : GASMASKS
10
Stanley Kowalski's wife : STELLA
11
Nursery group : THREEBEARS
12
Lampreys' kin : EELS
13
Afflictions : WOES
18
Tie ___ (get spiffed) : ONEON
22
Soy, ___, es (Sp. I lesson) : ERES
24
Electronic detective : RADAR
26
Beast of burden : LLAMA
27
Containing an antiseptic : IODIC
28
Customs and beliefs : TRADITIONS
29
Metric capacity : LITER
31
Aristocracy : ELITE
32
Les femmes : ELLES
35
Diaphanous : SHEER
38
West : OCCIDENT
39
Color like Pompeian red : ROSEWINE
41
Farm building : SILO
42
Purport : TENOR
44
Autocrat : DESPOT
46
Female's bow : CURTSY
48
Eyelashes : CILIA
50
Israel's Abba ___ : EBAN
51
Corn bread : PONE
52
Part of a dollar : CENT
54
A social sci. : ECON
55
Alliance acronym : NATO
56
Alack's partner : ALAS
59
He's hip to the jive : CAT

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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