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Gurner
Gurner

New York Times, Thursday, July 12, 1979

38-Down : Speedy reader's specialty

Author:
Gurner
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 312 (avg 1.67)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Gurner has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,838
Across
1
Catnip or thyme : HERB
5
Actress Van Doren : MAMIE
10
Land mass : ASIA
14
Actor-playwright-composer Novello : IVOR
15
Biblical patriarch : ISAAC
16
Eat snacks all day : NOSH
17
Author of "Liza of Lambeth" : SOMERSETMAUGHAM
20
Ornament for a uniform : EPAULET
21
Flaubert's forte : PROSE
22
Roe bestower : SHAD
23
Tubular or shrill : PIPY
25
Rider in a 1939 film : DESTRY
28
Yield : CEDE
29
___-de-sac : CUL
32
U.S. Indian : OTOE
33
Pom-pom girl's specialty : CHEER
34
___ Fail, coronation stone : LIA
35
Author of "Pierre et Jean" : GUYDEMAUPASSANT
39
Chemical suffix : IDE
40
Common and proper words : NOUNS
41
Letter smuggled past prison censors : KITE
42
Poetic contraction : EER
43
Word with dance or tale : FOLK
44
Turning point of a novel : CLIMAX
46
Butcher's offering : PORK
47
Silent one : CLAM
48
Garner or Flynn : ERROL
51
Volga laborer : BOATMAN
54
Author of "Sister Carrie" : THEODOREDREISER
58
Overlay with wood or plaster : CEIL
59
"Gay" place : PAREE
60
Undiluted, as whisky : NEAT
61
Sharpen : HONE
62
Between, to poets : TWIXT
63
French depot : GARE
Down
1
Linen marking : HIS
2
Cry of revelry, in Hellas : EVOE
3
Lark : ROMP
4
Follower of single or double : BREASTED
5
Lose : MISLAY
6
"I cast ___ to earth": Tennyson : ASEED
7
Arness role : MATT
8
"___ Woman," Reddy's 1972 hit : IAM
9
U.S. agcy.: 1948-51 : ECA
10
Fuming : ANGRY
11
Lower Manhattan locale : SOHO
12
"The corn ___ high ... " : ISAS
13
Self-pitying words : AHME
18
West German river : RUHR
19
On one's ___ (indigent) : UPPERS
23
Chirps : PEEPS
24
Notion : IDEA
25
Motherless calf : DOGIE
26
Musical composition : ETUDE
27
U.S. artist Raphael : SOYER
28
Thick slab : CHUNK
29
Maintain : CLAIM
30
Kings Peak range : UINTA
31
Liquid that yields rubber : LATEX
33
Make watertight : CAULK
36
Clasp : ENFOLD
37
Tract in "Wuthering Heights" : MOOR
38
Speedy reader's specialty : SKIMMING
44
Burgundy's relative : CLARET
45
Recent : LATE
46
First Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1918 : POOLE
47
Ancient manuscript : CODEX
48
Fix in one's memory : ETCH
49
Flow; current: Comb. form : RHEO
50
Control, in a way : REIN
51
Double this for a disease : BERI
52
Sailing : ASEA
53
Type of beer or miss : NEAR
55
Elect : OPT
56
Bitter cold : RAW
57
Hwy. : RTE

Answer summary:
1 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.

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