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Victor Goldfarb
Victor Goldfarb

New York Times, Monday, July 22, 1974

27-Down : Dispatch boat

Author:
Victor Goldfarb
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Victor Goldfarb has 17 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,109
Across
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Gertrude or ice : BERG
5
Bath powder : TALC
9
Manila Bay hero : DEWEY
14
Mars: Prefix : AREO
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Eastern nurse : AMAH
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Gertrude Stein words : AROSE
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Muse of history : CLIO
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Roman 1,003 : MIII
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Devilfish : MANTA
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Scarce items : HENSTEETH
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Flower : ASTER
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Make a bobble : ERR
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___ Vegas : LAS
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Oscar film of 1955 : MARTY
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Staple seeds of Asia : CHICKPEAS
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Eye layer : UVEA
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Pick up the tab : PAY
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"It's ___ tell a lie" : ASINTO
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Work with flour : SIFT
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Unlike Venus de Milo : ARMED
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Improve : GAIN
42
Arthurian wife : ISEULT
44
Beast of burden : ASS
45
Austen heroine : EMMA
46
Fish-catching bird : CORMORANT
48
Knotty problem : POSER
49
Spellers' tourney : BEE
50
Writer Anais : NIN
51
Bridge bids : SLAMS
55
Errol Flynn role : ROBINHOOD
61
Jeweler's yardstick : CARAT
62
Genesis name : ADAM
63
Symphonic instrument : OBOE
64
In the bag : ONICE
65
Style : TONE
66
Place for a guard : LINE
67
Sandpiper or crane : WADER
68
Work units : ERGS
69
Fraternity letters : ETAS
Down
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Fugue composer : BACH
2
Gardner : ERLE
3
Snaffle adjunct : REIN
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Harlem Globetrotter : GOOSETATUM
5
Less uncontrollable : TAMER
6
Parisian friend : AMIE
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Café au ___ : LAIT
8
Yellow Sea gulf : CHIHLI
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Napery materials : DAMASKS
10
Periods : ERAS
11
Custom : WONT
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Princely house of Italy : ESTE
13
Academic or leap : YEAR
21
Old college ___ : TRY
25
Schools: Abbr. : ACADS
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Rodgers's forte : MUSIC
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Dispatch boat : AVISO
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Send to a specialist : REFER
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Vehicle : CAR
30
"The Education of ___ Kaplan" : HYMAN
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Get rid of in a way : PIGEONHOLE
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Hindu land grants : ENAMS
33
"___ to be born and ... " : ATIME
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Detecting device : SONAR
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Shepherd: Fr. : PATRE
40
Superlative suffix : EST
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Maine specialty : LOBSTER
47
Charge with gas : AERATE
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Brooch feature : PIN
50
City of France : NIMES
51
Boat on the Gowanus : SCOW
52
First name in Hollywood : LANA
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Uninteresting : ARID
54
Nutmeg spice : MACE
56
Skunk's weapon : ODOR
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Big ___ theory : BANG
58
News item : OBIT
59
Chaplin's wife : OONA
60
Ruby et al. : DEES

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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