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Joseph LaFauci
New York Times, Tuesday, June 25, 1974
42-Down : Colorado's Royal ___
Author:
Joseph LaFauci
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.53, Missing: { J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 10, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Joseph LaFauci has 70 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 S | 2 P | 3 R | 4 A | 5 I | 6 N | 7 D | 8 A | 9 T | 10 E | 11 D | ||||
12 C | L | E | A | R | O | U | 13 T | 14 A | L | I | N | E | 15 D |
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16 R | A | D | I | A | N | C | E | 17 C | E | N | T | R | O |
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18 E | V | A | N | S | 19 L | E | 20 N | I | N | G | R | A | D |
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21 D | E | N | Y | 22 G | E | N | O | A | 23 L | A | N | G |
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24 O | R | T | 25 C | O | A | S | T | 26 B | I | N | G | E |
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27 H | U | R | 28 T | 29 R | A | N | C | E | D |
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30 S | 31 C | 32 R | O | D | 33 E | D | G | E | D | |||||
34 D | A | R | E | S | A | 35 Y | 36 F | A | G | |||||
37 E | L | A | T | E | 38 E | 39 R | O | D | E | 40 L | 41 A | 42 G |
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43 B | I | N | I | 44 O | T | A | R | Y | 45 T | I | T | O |
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46 R | E | S | C | 47 O | R | I | N | G | 48 M | I | N | O | R |
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49 I | N | T | E | N | D | 50 G | A | 51 R | A | G | I | N | G |
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52 S | C | O | N | C | E | 53 E | V | I | D | E | N | C | E |
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54 E | N | T | E | R | 55 E | M | E | R | G | E |
© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,082
Across
1
Ankle injury : SPRAIN
7
No longer au courant : DATED
12
Take it on the lam : CLEAROUT
14
Made straight : ALINED
16
Splendor : RADIANCE
17
El ___, Calif. : CENTRO
18
Maurice or Dale : EVANS
19
City of the Winter Palace : LENINGRAD
21
Gainsay : DENY
22
Port south of Milan : GENOA
23
School study: Abbr. : LANG
24
Scrap : ORT
25
Guard or artillery : COAST
26
Spree : BINGE
27
Wallace hero : HUR
28
Enraptured : TRANCED
30
Boston fish specialty : SCROD
33
Moved gradually : EDGED
34
Venture an opinion : DARESAY
36
Tommy Atkins's smoke : FAG
37
Infuse with pride : ELATE
38
Diminish by degrees : ERODE
40
Fall behind : LAG
43
Double: Prefix : BINI
44
Eared seal : OTARY
45
Deposer of King Peter II : TITO
46
Orchestrating anew : RESCORING
48
Secondary : MINOR
49
Plan : INTEND
50
Putting away the car : GARAGING
52
Wall bracket : SCONCE
53
Trial material : EVIDENCE
54
Penetrate : ENTER
55
Develop : EMERGE
Down
1
Drool : SLAVER
2
Tiresome scholar : PEDANT
3
Pluvious : RAINY
4
Macaws : ARAS
5
Son of Apollo : ION
6
Kind of fission : NUCLEAR
7
Old Roman province : DACIA
8
Danish measure : ALEN
9
Like a foot waking up : TINGLING
10
Theater-door sign : ENTRANCE
11
Out of one's mind : DERANGED
12
Set of beliefs : CREDO
13
Formative years : TEENS
15
Eluded : DODGED
20
Norse deity : NOTT
22
Dutch cheese : GOUDA
25
Selected : CHOSE
26
Scout wear : BADGE
29
Available : READY
30
Significant feature : SALIENCE
31
City in R. I. : CRANSTON
32
Clammed-up : RETICENT
34
Cleanup crew's problem : DEBRIS
35
Himalayan creature : YETI
36
Excused : FORGAVE
39
Extent : RANGE
40
Coat part : LINING
41
Pronto : ATONCE
42
Colorado's Royal ___ : GORGE
44
Salesman's goal : ORDER
45
Sabertooth : TIGER
47
"___ bitten ... " : ONCE
48
Constructed : MADE
51
Brink : RIM
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 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.