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Peter Swift
New York Times, Wednesday, May 5, 1982
43-Down : Royal escort
Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 E | 2 C | 3 R | 4 U | 5 B | 6 O | 7 G | 8 S | 9 D | 10 I | 11 S | 12 C | 13 O |
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14 G | R | A | N | 15 E | D | N | A | 16 E | N | T | E | R |
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17 G | A | R | D | 18 E | N | I | A | S | 19 S | M | A | L | L |
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20 S | W | E | E | T | E | N | T | H | 21 E | K | I | T | T | Y |
22 R | E | F | 23 U | S | N | |||||||||
24 M | 25 A | 26 R | L | 27 I | 28 N | 29 C | 30 U | R | 31 T | 32 A | 33 P | 34 E |
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35 O | L | E | O | 36 T | A | R | R | Y | 37 C | R | A | M |
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38 A | L | E | C | 39 D | A | B | 40 O | G | R | E |
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41 T | A | S | K | 42 D | I | N | A | 43 R | 44 N | U | K | E |
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45 S | H | E | A | 46 I | R | E | N | E | 47 D | E | A | R |
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48 N | 49 U | N | 50 T | 51 R | I | |||||||||
52 R | 53 E | 54 A | D | S | T | 55 H | 56 E | 57 R | I | O | T | 58 A | 59 C | 60 T |
61 E | V | O | K | E | 62 E | V | I | N | C | I | B | L | E |
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63 O | I | L | E | R | 64 M | E | N | U | 65 O | B | O | E |
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66 S | L | A | Y | S | 67 I | N | G | E | 68 N | E | T | S |
© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,866
Across
1
Light tan : ECRU
5
Waterlogged grounds : BOGS
9
Music, of a sort : DISCO
14
___ Canaria, chief city in Las Palmas : GRAN
15
Name meaning "pleasure" : EDNA
16
Register : ENTER
17
Jasmines' kin : GARDENIAS
19
Trivial : SMALL
20
Ante up : SWEETENTHEKITTY
22
N.F.L. whistler : REF
23
Defence Dept. arm : USN
24
Loam : MARL
27
Run into : INCUR
31
Kind of worm : TAPE
35
Pseudo butter : OLEO
36
Bide : TARRY
37
Stuff : CRAM
38
Guinness : ALEC
39
Flatfish : DAB
40
Monster : OGRE
41
Chore : TASK
42
100 centimes, in Oran : DINAR
44
Indian Point fixture, to some : NUKE
45
Stadium in Queens : SHEA
46
Dunne or Rich : IRENE
47
Precious : DEAR
48
Sister : NUN
50
Prefix with color or corn : TRI
52
Dresses down : READSTHERIOTACT
61
Elicit : EVOKE
62
Demonstrable : EVINCIBLE
63
Tanker : OILER
64
Preprandial reading : MENU
65
Hautboy : OBOE
66
Homophone for sleighs : SLAYS
67
Little Sheba's creator : INGE
68
Catches : NETS
Down
1
Prods, with "on" : EGGS
2
Crop : CRAW
3
Scarce : RARE
4
Well secured : UNDERLOCKANDKEY
5
Advantage : BENEFIT
6
Norse deity : ODIN
7
Biting insect : GNAT
8
Window part : SASH
9
Office furniture : DESKS
10
Newly made : INMINTCONDITION
11
Type of photo : STAT
12
Ancient Briton : CELT
13
Paris suburb : ORLY
18
Hot time in Marseille : ETE
21
Broad: Prefix : EURY
24
Ditches : MOATS
25
God, in Mecca : ALLAH
26
Former artful Dodger : REESE
28
Bottom : NADIR
29
Stretch the neck : CRANE
30
Papal name : URBAN
32
Bicker : ARGUE
33
Winter jacket : PARKA
34
Arabian governor : EMEER
42
Exertion : DINT
43
Royal escort : RETINUE
49
Exploiters : USERS
51
Legendary bird : ROC
52
Early autos : REOS
53
Baneful : EVIL
54
Guadalcanal village or river : AOLA
55
Prefix with sphere : HEMI
56
Smooth : EVEN
57
Encircle : RING
58
Chartres churchman : ABBE
59
Become lumpy : CLOT
60
Prepares to drive : TEES
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 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.