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William Lutwiniak
New York Times, Saturday, July 14, 1979
10-Down : Amass
Author:
William Lutwiniak
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { none — this is a pangram }, Scrabble score: 319 (avg 1.74)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Grid has duplicate clues.
William Lutwiniak has 304 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 I | 2 S | 3 M | 4 S | 5 S | 6 H | 7 R | 8 U | 9 G | 10 G | 11 E | 12 N | 13 T |
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14 T | H | A | T | 15 T | E | E | N | Y | 16 A | Q | U | A |
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17 T | A | X | I | 18 A | R | D | O | R | 19 T | U | R | K |
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20 W | I | L | 21 D | G | O | O | S | E | 22 C | H | A | S | E |
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23 E | Y | E | D | 24 H | E | L | E | N |
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25 A | 26 N | T | E | 27 V | 28 E | 29 L | A | R | ||||||
30 F | L | I | T | 31 W | 32 A | I | V | E | R | 33 C | 34 H | 35 I |
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36 L | A | B | O | 37 R | O | F | S | I | S | Y | 38 P | H | U | S |
39 O | N | S | 40 A | V | A | I | L | S | 41 R | A | G | E |
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42 I | N | E | R | T | 43 C | O | P | E | ||||||
44 D | 45 I | 46 D | N | T | 47 J | 48 O | A | B | ||||||
49 O | N | A | F | O | 50 O | 51 L | 52 S | E | R | R | A | 53 N | 54 D | |
55 F | A | Z | E | 56 K | I | O | W | A | 57 B | E | E | 58 S |
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59 O | N | E | S | 60 R | E | L | E | T | 61 L | E | A | K |
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62 R | E | S | T | 63 A | D | D | L | E | 64 E | D | D | Y |
© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,840
Across
1
Doctrines : ISMS
5
Short jacket : SHRUG
10
Feller : GENT
14
Kipling's "The Ship ___ Found Herself" : THAT
15
Itty-bitty : TEENY
16
Popular shade : AQUA
17
Hack : TAXI
18
Warmth : ARDOR
19
Ottoman : TURK
20
Waste of energy : WILDGOOSECHASE
23
Had a look : EYED
24
Reddy : HELEN
25
Prior to: Prefix : ANTE
27
A "k" sound : VELAR
30
Pass quickly : FLIT
31
Cession of a right : WAIVER
33
"The Sweetheart of Sigma ___" : CHI
36
Waste of energy : LABOROFSISYPHUS
39
Switch settings : ONS
40
Serves : AVAILS
41
Tantrum : RAGE
42
Like xenon : INERT
43
Handle handily : COPE
44
"She ___ Say Yes" : DIDNT
47
Commander in David's army : JOAB
49
Wasting one's energy : ONAFOOLSERRAND
55
Disconcert : FAZE
56
Plains Indian : KIOWA
57
Buzzers : BEES
59
People : ONES
60
Sublease : RELET
61
Publicize covertly : LEAK
62
Take a break : REST
63
Confuse : ADDLE
64
Founder of Christian Science : EDDY
Down
1
Corporate initials : ITT
2
He wrote "The Young Lions" : SHAW
3
Long skirt : MAXI
4
Dagger : STILETTO
5
Put on : STAGE
6
For whom Salome danced : HEROD
7
Make over : REDO
8
Spanish pronoun : UNOS
9
"Jabberwocky" verb : GYRE
10
Amass : GATHER
11
On a par : EQUAL
12
Provide T.L.C. : NURSE
13
Appropriated : TAKEN
21
Woad, e.g. : DYE
22
Cautious : CHARY
25
Arkin : ALAN
26
V.I.P., with "his" : NIBS
27
Pay a call : VISIT
28
Baneful : EVIL
29
Minus : LESS
30
Ziegfeld : FLO
31
Did handwork : WOVE
32
Remote : AFAR
33
Bloke : CHAP
34
Gargantuan : HUGE
35
Honshu bay : ISE
37
___ waste (was expended uselessly) : RANTO
38
Likely : PROBABLE
42
Overrun : INFEST
43
Roadster, e.g. : CAR
44
Take care of : DOFOR
45
Vapid : INANE
46
Stuns : DAZES
47
Bijou : JEWEL
48
Spellbind : ORATE
50
Gumbo must : OKRA
51
German song : LIED
52
Was persuasive : SOLD
53
Lack : NEED
54
Word with line or lock : DEAD
58
Welkin : SKY
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 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.