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Joseph LaFauci
Joseph LaFauci

WORDS, INC.

New York Times, Sunday, May 29, 1977

77-Down : Retainers

Author:
Joseph J. La Fauci
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 66, Avg Word Len: 5.36, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 530 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 123, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12
Joseph LaFauci has 70 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Joseph J. La Fauci is an alias for Joseph LaFauci.
David Steinberg notes:

Error in 83-Down clue — champleve isn't a kind of enamel, it's a method of working with enamel; left as in original.

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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,151
Across
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Must : HASTO
6
Next Sunday's heroes : DADS
10
Urban eyesore : SLUM
14
Wing length : SPAN
18
Player under a dome : ASTRO
19
Proclaim : ENUNCIATE
21
Reproductive body : SPORE
22
Secret business associate : SLEEPINGPARTNER
24
Tanqueray's second wife : PAULA
25
Small shark : TOPE
26
Bears : TOLERATES
27
Rabbit's incentive : CARROT
28
Spire ornament : EPI
29
Neural network : RETE
30
Caustic agents : LYES
31
Out of ___ : SORTS
32
Cheer for Scotto : ENCORE
34
Famed couturier : DIOR
35
!, to a printer : SCREAMER
38
Tra followers : LAS
39
Loser to Louis: 1946 : CONN
40
Uncovered : BARED
41
Domesday Book money : ORA
42
Pointed a weapon : AIMED
45
Reverberated : RANG
46
Miscubobble : BONER
47
Use shears : SNIP
48
Bird in a Gallico title : SNOWGOOSE
50
Inelegant : CRUDE
51
Salad days : TEENS
52
One: Ger. : EIN
53
One of Esau's wives : ADAH
54
Like some investments : SOUND
55
Grand or petty group : JURY
56
62
At all : EVER
63
Jefferson was one : DEIST
64
Mortgage : LIEN
65
Avant-gardist : NEO
66
"Fistivity" finales : KAYOS
68
Any large corporation : GIANT
69
"Fidelio" hero : FLORESTAN
71
Dresden's river : ELBE
72
Parson's home : MANSE
73
Device on a document : SEAL
74
Literary Lorna : DOONE
75
Symbol on Sydney's coins : EMU
76
Push-button man : ROBOT
77
Dollar-a-___ man : YEAR
78
Former French coin : SOU
79
Adjudicated : PASSEDON
81
Cogwheel : GEAR
82
Went on the road : TOURED
85
More chilling : ICIER
86
Vulgarian : SLOB
87
Padlock : SHUT
88
Holiday quaff : NOG
90
Dovetail wedges : TENONS
92
Less than molecular : ATOMISTIC
94
"All there" : SANE
95
Coeur d'___, Idaho : ALENE
96
"Fiddler ... " song : IFIWEREARICHMAN
98
Stairway member : RISER
99
Court lists : CALENDARS
100
Rugged ridge : ARETE
101
Soviet wire service : TASS
102
Not worth ___ cent : ARED
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No dele : STET
104
TV tryout : PILOT
Down
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Expedition : HASTE
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Slanting : ASLOPE
3
Become involved : STEPIN
4
Place where money doesn't grow : TREE
5
Alley, of comics : OOP
6
Signify : DENOTE
7
Viewpoint : ANGLE
8
Con man's mark : DUPE
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Like an angry dog : SNARLING
10
Role for Grandma : SITTER
11
Scenes of many strikes : LANES
12
Salt Lake City team : UTES
13
Matelot's milieu : MER
14
Laconian capital : SPARTA
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Invests heavily : POURSMONEYINTO
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Guthrie : ARLO
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Uncluttered : NEAT
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Irving's pen name : CRAYON
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Was frugal : SPARED
23
Arteries for Antony : ITERS
27
K.P. utensil : CORER
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Half of the Mets' schedule : ROADGAMES
31
Pebble; stone : SCREE
33
Ball of thread : CLEW
34
"Finito!" : DONE
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Sea urchin : SANDDOLLAR
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Innisfail : ERIN
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Chats, mod style : RAPS
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Profited : CASHEDINON
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Obliged : BOUND
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Ancient gold alloy : ASEM
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Dolphin genus : INIA
44
Marx Brothers film classic : MONKEYBUSINESS
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Horse color : ROAN
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Shock : BRUNT
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Medieval toiler : SERF
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Incense : ODOR
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Gold or Barbary : COAST
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Expelled : TURNEDOUT
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Gleam : SHINE
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Pooh-pooh : JEER
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Cry at Greek orgies : EVOE
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Beer ingredient : YEAST
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One of the strings : VIOL
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Connery : SEAN
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Resiliency : TONE
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Stronghold : KEEP
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Mme. Gluck : ALMA
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Magda, e.g. : GABOR
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Apprehension : FEAR
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Off-key : SOUR
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Manners : MODES
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Petrels, shearwaters, etc. : SEABIRDS
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Carl or Rob : REINER
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Retainers : YEOMEN
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Sans ___ (carefree) : SOUCI
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Quick breads : SCONES
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Incandesced : GLOWED
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Dryness or desire : THIRST
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Champlevé : ENAMEL
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Di ___, noted author : DONATO
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Rural crossing : STILE
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Rubberneck : STARE
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Sartre subject : GENET
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Pielet : TART
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Kazan : ELIA
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Off : AFAR
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Headquarters : SEAT
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Eastern title : SHRI
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City in Peru : ICA
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Kepi : CAP

Answer summary:
8 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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