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Hallie Parsons
Hallie Parsons
Gerald Parsons
Gerald Parsons

New York Times, Friday, June 23, 1978

5-Down : Kitchen staple

Author:
Hallie & Gerald Parsons
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F J Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 56, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,541
Across
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Wanders at will : ROVES
6
Neck of land : SPIT
10
Flow's partner : EBB
13
Dispatch boat : AVISO
14
"They ___ serve ... ": Milton : ALSO
15
Twofold : DUAL
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Annoyed : VEXED
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Re-election losers, finishing their terms : LAMEDUCKS
20
Middle of a well-known palindrome : ERE
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Italian wine center : ASTI
23
Perfumed powder : SACHET
24
British child's nursemaid : NANA
26
Highway sound : HONK
28
___ culpa : MEA
29
Fortune : CHANCE
31
The ___ Scott case : DRED
34
In the phone book : LISTED
37
Apollo's mother : LETO
40
Inner: Prefix : ESO
41
Margaret Mead's colleagues : ANTHROPOLOGISTS
44
NBC owner : RCA
45
Long baseball hit : SWAT
46
Put garments on : CLOTHE
47
Computer food : DATA
49
"Many are called but few are ___" : CHOSEN
51
Worldwide workers' gp. : ILO
53
Air: Comb. form : AERI
54
Of grandparents : AVAL
58
Valuable possessions : ASSETS
61
___ die : SINE
63
Winner in Mailer's "The Fight" : ALI
64
Kind of timekeeper : METRONOME
66
Quiverleaf : ASPEN
68
Skip : OMIT
69
Arabian port : ADEN
70
Roi's spouse : REINE
71
Suffix for sciences : ICS
72
Lady's escort, for short : GENT
73
Burdened : LADEN
Down
1
Black bird : RAVEN
2
Turn ___ new leaf : OVERA
3
Female fox : VIXEN
4
Suffix with Japan or Nippon : ESE
5
Kitchen staple : SODA
6
___ Sea, lake in southern Calif. : SALTON
7
Detectives : PLAINCLOTHESMEN
8
School of thought : ISM
9
Ten that may be socked : TOES
10
Elicited : EDUCED
11
Rumanian capital : BUCHAREST
12
Make bread : BAKE
16
Naval vessel : LST
19
Project of the Corps of Engineers : DAM
22
Follow secretly : SHADOW
25
Kind of hormone : ACTH
27
Ship part : KEEL
30
Pronoun : HERS
32
Native of Tallinn : ESTH
33
Give medicine to : DOSE
34
Hog fat : LARD
35
Member of a former Peruvian empire : INCA
36
R.B.I., for one : STATISTIC
38
Alarm bell : TOCSIN
39
Eye amorously : OGLE
42
Declaration signer from Md. : PACA
43
College in New Rochelle, N.Y. : IONA
48
Warns : ALERTS
50
Express now used as a Japanese hotel : ORIENT
52
Siouan : OTO
55
Inane : VAPID
56
Coeur d'___, Idaho : ALENE
57
Word after bed or table : LINEN
58
I love: Lat. : AMO
59
Freight trailer, for short : SEMI
60
Jagged protuberance : SNAG
62
Eden's title : EARL
65
Verse form : ODE
67
Daedalus flew over it : SEA

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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