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Lita M. Elvers
Lita M. Elvers

New York Times, Friday, June 13, 1975

1-Down : Dinner giver

Author:
Lita M. Elvers
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { B J Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Lita M. Elvers has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,435
Across
1
Get well : HEAL
5
Wedding locale : ALTAR
10
Ruler : TSAR
14
Aware of : ONTO
15
Paris sight : SEINE
16
Formerly : ONCE
17
Body of an organism : SOMA
18
"A votre ___" : SANTE
19
Phooey! : NUTS
20
Start of an appreciative cheer : TWOFOURSIXEIGHT
23
Stray : ERR
24
Verb ending : ING
25
Sprinkle : SPARGE
28
Attic or closet, e.g. : CATCHALL
33
Peggy of TV : CASS
34
Short trips : SPINS
36
Corner : TREE
37
Lawyer: Abbr. : ATT
38
U. N. agency : ILO
39
"___ Yankee Doodle ... " : IMA
40
Tale teller : LIAR
42
Palette filler : PAINT
44
Bears, in Spain : OSOS
45
Start of a scale : DOREMIFA
47
Feel contrition : REPENT
49
Swindle : CON
50
Rubber tree : ULE
51
Decision-making words : EENYMEENYMINYMO
60
Templeton : ALEC
61
Impede : TIEUP
62
Kind of stool : TOAD
63
Teheran coin : RIAL
64
Doddering : ANILE
65
Kind of shoppe : OLDE
66
Glut : SATE
67
Snare again : RENET
68
___ out (makes do) : EKES
Down
1
Dinner giver : HOST
2
" ... paradise ___" : ENOW
3
Vapor: Prefix : ATMO
4
Casual shoes : LOAFERS
5
Encourages : ASSURES
6
Goneril's father : LEAR
7
Does soldering : TINS
8
Against : ANTI
9
Goes offstage again : REEXITS
10
"Luck be a lady ___" : TONIGHT
11
Like the rug bug : SNUG
12
Arthritis drug : ACTH
13
Depend, with "on" : REST
21
Relative of an assn. : ORG
22
Business-letter abbr. : ENC
25
Wet burn : SCALD
26
Place for a grill : PATIO
27
" ... wish upon ___" : ASTAR
28
Eyelashes : CILIA
29
In a while : ANON
30
Come into being : ARISE
31
Martini twist : LEMON
32
"Not in the ___" : LEAST
35
Singer Edith : PIAF
41
Conserve, as paper or glass : RECYCLE
42
Batting-grip aid : PINETAR
43
Item for Gideon : TRUMPET
44
Feature of some shoes : OPENTOE
46
Family member : MOM
48
Inventor Whitney : ELI
51
Rabbit ___ : EARS
52
Essay name : ELIA
53
Uncomplicated : NEAT
54
German article : EINE
55
No, in Nuremberg : NEIN
56
Word with tide or log : YULE
57
Egg part : YOLK
58
Produced : MADE
59
Poetic works : ODES

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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