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Jack Luzzatto
New York Times, Tuesday, June 18, 1974
16-Down : Bad service
Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.56, Missing: { J K X Z }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 10
Jack Luzzatto has 293 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 R | 2 O | 3 M | 4 P | 5 E | 6 D | 7 A | 8 C | 9 I | 10 D | 11 S | ||||
12 C | A | V | I | A | R | E | 13 S | Y | R | U | P | 14 S | ||
15 O | V | E | R | H | E | A | 16 D | S | M | A | S | H | E | 17 S |
18 S | I | R | E | S | 19 D | O | E | R | 20 T | E | C | H |
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21 T | O | M | S | 22 B | U | S | Y | 23 R | U | E |
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24 A | L | A | 25 S | 26 W | A | B | S | 27 T | 28 H | I | R | D |
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29 L | I | N | 30 E | C | A | L | L | 31 D | E | U | C | E | S |
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32 V | O | L | L | E | 33 Y | I | N | G | ||||||
34 A | 35 S | 36 P | I | R | E | 37 F | O | R | E | H | 38 A | 39 N | 40 D |
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41 S | H | A | L | E | 42 C | A | D | E | T | 43 R | I | O |
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44 F | A | T | 45 T | R | U | E | 46 A | B | C | S |
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47 I | D | E | 48 A | 49 Y | E | L | L | 50 T | R | I | E | S |
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51 T | E | N | N | 52 I | S | E | T | I | 53 Q | U | E | T | T | E |
54 S | T | E | N | O | S | 55 N | U | R | S | E | R | S |
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56 S | T | O | N | E | 57 G | A | N | T | R | Y |
© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,075
Across
1
Won easily : ROMPED
7
Corrosives : ACIDS
12
Expensive spread: Var. : CAVIARE
13
Maple products : SYRUPS
15
Tennis wallops : OVERHEADSMASHES
18
Horse fathers : SIRES
19
Accomplisher : DOER
20
Engineering school : TECH
21
Certain cats : TOMS
22
Occupied : BUSY
23
Feel sorry : RUE
24
Wing : ALA
25
Mops the deck : SWABS
27
Less than half : THIRD
29
Tennis official's decision : LINECALL
31
Ties the score : DEUCES
32
Tennis on the fly : VOLLEYING
34
Hope to acheive : ASPIRE
37
Basic tennis stroke : FOREHAND
41
Emergency oil source : SHALE
42
Young man-at-arms : CADET
43
Beautiful harbor : RIO
44
Kind of chance : FAT
45
Faithful : TRUE
46
Fundamentals : ABCS
47
Mental flash : IDEA
49
Screech : YELL
50
Makes an effort : TRIES
51
Code for the court : TENNISETIQUETTE
54
Shorthand writers : STENOS
55
Baby bottles : NURSERS
56
Thing not to leave unturned : STONE
57
Railroad signal scaffold : GANTRY
Down
1
Pasta item : RAVIOLI
2
Featherbed with crew members : OVERMAN
3
Bogs down : MIRES
4
Contemptuous cries : PAHS
5
Before : ERE
6
Item out of play : DEADBALL
7
Evaluate : ASSESS
8
Welsh people : CYMRY
9
David's officer : IRA
10
Bite the ___ : DUST
11
Globular : SPHERIC
12
Of the ribs : COSTAL
14
Make fast : SECURE
16
Bad service : DOUBLEFAULT
17
Casts off : SHEDS
25
Make a point : SCORE
26
Corduroy ridge : WALE
27
Principle : TENET
28
Hefner or Downs : HUGH
30
Like Satan : EVIL
31
Calamitous : DIRE
33
Alpine activity : YODELING
34
___ as a fiddle : ASFIT
35
Ghosts : SHADES
36
Inventors' assets : PATENTS
38
Umpire : ARBITER
39
Words to a near-winner : NICETRY
40
Pads in London : DOSSES
42
Wavy dagger : CREESE
45
Actress Cicely : TYSON
46
In need of ___ (tired) : AREST
48
Dill : ANET
50
Pivot : TURN
52
Daughter of Cadmus : INO
53
Sine ___ non : QUA
Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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