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William Jarvis
William Jarvis

New York Times, Tuesday, May 8, 1979

36-Down : Burnett or Channing

Author:
William Jarvis
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
William Jarvis has 15 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,773
Across
1
Captures : BAGS
5
Avoid out of fear : SKIRT
10
Rhyme scheme : ABAB
14
Troubles : AILS
15
Ship or plane : LINER
16
___ fide : BONA
17
New York's "French connection" : STATUEOFLIBERTY
20
Fed. rate-fixing agency : ICC
21
Word with England or York : NEW
22
Inverted dents : BULGES
23
Site of the "Miracle of '69" : SHEASTADIUM
27
Coral island : CAY
28
Sea eagles : ERNS
29
Zilch : NIL
32
Staten Island ___ : FERRY
35
Ice mass : FLOE
36
President of France: 1954-59 : COTY
37
Tooth or head follower : ACHE
38
Songs of praise: Var. : PEANS
39
Prolific author : ANON
40
French intensive : TRES
41
Author of "Out of Mulberry Street" : RIIS
42
Site of a famous zoo : BRONX
43
"Apologia pro Vita ___": Newman : SUA
44
Shingle : SIGN
45
Thai language : LAO
46
Brooklyn's answer to the Riviera : CONEYISLAND
51
"Render therefore unto ___ ... " : CAESAR
55
Time zone abbr. : EST
56
Batman and Robin : DUO
57
Hangout for Kong : EMPIRESTATEBLDG
61
Astronaut Armstrong : NEIL
62
What ogres do : SCARE
63
Abound : TEEM
64
Opposite of incl. : EXCL
65
Everett ___, "ashcan realist" : SHINN
66
___ Major : URSA
Down
1
Foundation : BASIS
2
Gee trailer : AITCH
3
Candied : GLACE
4
Speedy airplane : SST
5
Icy and rainy : SLEETY
6
Indians of the Southwest : KIOWA
7
Part of speech: Abbr. : INF
8
Unit of electricity : REL
9
Public defenders : TRIBUNES
10
Fourth person : ABEL
11
Rival of Connors : BORG
12
Poker stake : ANTE
13
Buzzards and Donegal : BAYS
18
Recant : UNSAY
19
One-time pets of Brooklyn fans : BUMS
24
Estate : ACRES
25
Lightweight woolen fabric : DELAINE
26
Clubs used at Westchester : IRONS
29
Advice to Nanette : NONO
30
Take ___ the lam : ITON
31
Kind of wildcat : LYNX
32
Domino or Waller : FATS
33
Beige : ECRU
34
Ostrich's look-alike : RHEA
35
Pretend : FEIGN
36
Burnett or Channing : CAROL
38
Chaucer character : PRIORESS
42
Sew loosely or thrash : BASTE
44
Cicatrix : SCAR
45
First word of Longfellow's poem on Revere : LISTEN
47
Pine : YEARN
48
Larry ___, famed harmonica player : ADLER
49
Many paintings by Renoir : NUDES
50
Thomas Aquinas' specialty : DOGMA
51
Geologic comb. form : CENE
52
Second-largest U.S. stock exchange : AMEX
53
"Iliad" or "Odyssey" : EPIC
54
Part of a window : SILL
58
Acad. : SCH
59
Asian people : TAI
60
Quant. of heat : BTU

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 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.

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