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Tanaquil Le Clercq
Tanaquil Le Clercq

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New York Times, Sunday, July 28, 1974

4-Down : 21st-amendment backers

Author:
Tanaquil Le Clercq
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 23, Columns: 23, Words: 164, Blocks: 100, Avg Word Len: 5.23, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 672 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 147, Cheaters: 20, FITB: 10, XRef: 8, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11
Tanaquil Le Clercq has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

Original 7-Down clue had no accent over the first e in "Adorée"; added one.

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K
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N
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A
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V
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T
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B
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P
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E
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H
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,115
Across
1
Ex-teammate of Lerner : LOEWE
6
Danish moneys : ORAS
10
Gravy dish : BOAT
14
Attention-getters : PSTS
18
With 119 Across, comedy team : ALLEN
19
Scene of activity : ARENA
20
Ragout : SALMI
21
___ Coeur : SACRE
22
Reporting team : MASTERSANDJOHNSON
25
___ one's beer : CRYIN
26
Candlenut trees : AMAS
27
Gasoline or Shinbone : ALLEY
28
Logging sleds : TODES
29
City now part of Saigon : CHOLON
30
Tackle an Alp : SCALE
31
With Martin, comedy team : ROWAN
32
Ship frames : HULLS
33
Droop : SAG
36
Alice or Tim : TINY
37
Indonesian weight : HOEN
38
Kind of code : AREA
39
Poseidon's prop : TRIDENT
41
Keyboard team : GOLDANDFIZDALE
47
Miss Dahl : ARLENE
48
Monk, in France : MOINE
50
Ephraim's grandson : ERAN
51
Formerly named : NEE
52
Currant genus : RIBES
53
Evans or Kennedy : MADGE
54
Shrewd : CAGEY
56
___-pushers : PEDAL
58
With 97 Across, lithography team : IVES
59
With 74 Down, dance team : HARI
60
Aspires : SOARS
61
Links wear : SLACKS
62
Biblical father : NER
63
Literary team : GONCOURTBROS
66
Overly sentimental : MUSHY
67
Pacific roots : TAROS
69
Kind of surgeon : NEURO
70
Devilfish : MANTA
71
Added liquor : LACED
72
Vaudeville team : MORANANDMACK
76
Russian coins: Abbr. : RBS
79
Festival city : CANNES
80
Moslem scholars : ALIMS
81
Yarn unit : HANK
82
Magpie: Var. : PYAT
83
Poet W. H. : AUDEN
84
Cowboy wear : CHAPS
85
Cremona name : AMATI
87
Speech, in Seville : HABLA
88
B. & O., etc. : RRS
89
Horse team : SPAN
90
City in Turkey : ADANA
91
Pantry : LARDER
92
Movie team : LAURELANDHARDY
97
See 58 Across : CURRIER
98
Eagle or Ranger : LONE
99
North Sea feeder : ELBE
100
Grate : RASP
101
Ship-plank's curve : SNY
102
Schedule : SLATE
103
Cotton worker : BALER
104
Hebrew letters : TETHS
105
Seance visitor : SPIRIT
106
Kind of recall : TOTAL
107
Mohammed's birthplace : MECCA
108
Movie unit : TAKE
112
Be indecisive : WAVER
113
Marquis team : ARCHYANDMEHITABEL
116
Have ___ (look out) : ACARE
117
Faults : VICES
118
Unsteady : TIPSY
119
See 18 Across : BURNS
120
Fountain and bull : PENS
121
William of Alaska : EGAN
122
Makes haste : HIES
123
Penn or ship of : STATE
Down
1
Lhasa V.I.P. : LAMA
2
Spatial infinity : OLAM
3
Lanchester : ELSA
4
21st-amendment backers : WETS
5
Chemical ending : ENE
6
Way of taking medicine : ORALLY
7
Miss Adorée : RENEE
8
With 12 Down, radio team : ANDY
9
Teak tree : SAJ
10
Large handkerchief: Var. : BANDANA
11
With Johnson, stage team : OLSEN
12
See 8 Down : AMOS
13
Kind of soldier : TIN
14
Freed in a way : PAROLED
15
Rock-and-roll team : SCYLLAANDCHARYBDIS
16
Music combos : TRIOS
17
Swiss herdsman : SENN
19
Oblique : ASLANT
20
Exhibited : SHOWED
21
German-U.S. general : SCHURZ
23
French dramatist : RACINE
24
Peter of films : OTOOLE
29
Kind of reaction : CHAIN
30
British guns : STENS
31
French river : RHONE
33
Have the lead role : STARIN
34
Reach : ARRIVE
35
Operetta team : GILBERTANDSULLIVAN
40
Frances and Sandra : DEES
41
Mr. Young : GIG
42
River to the Amazon : NEGRO
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Opera circle : DRESS
44
Miss Wray : FAY
45
Like some faucets : LEAKY
46
Some are electric : EELS
48
Grape residue : MARC
49
Hatred: It. : ODIO
53
Le ___, auto-race city : MANS
54
Basket performer : COBRA
55
Homer king : AARON
56
Squarely : PLUNK
57
Lynne's direction : EAST
59
Gangsters : HOODS
60
Amazes : STUNS
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___-dab (right on) : SMACK
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Inexperienced : GREEN
64
Tear open : UNRIP
65
Scads : REAMS
68
Skin woe : ACNE
70
"The ___ Love" : MANI
71
With Petrarch, a team : LAURA
72
Sea-power writer : MAHAN
73
Swedish island : OLAND
74
Wealth, in India : DHAN
75
See 59 Across : MATA
77
Whalebone : BALEEN
78
Like some nights : STARRY
79
Reiner or Hubbell : CARL
82
Henry VIII's last : PARR
84
Auditor: Abbr. : CPA
85
Puff ___ : ADDER
86
With Nichols, a team : MAY
87
Persists, with "on" : HARPS
89
Winter coating : SLEET
90
Ancient battle town : ARBELA
91
Asian language : LUSHAI
93
Lions, e.g. : ROARERS
94
Undivided : ENTIRE
95
Bret Harte's "___ Chinee" : HEATHEN
96
Mitigates : ALLAYS
97
Like some tunes : CATCHY
100
Niche : RECESS
102
Modern age : SPACE
103
Mouth, in Milan : BOCCA
104
Greece's Vale of ___ : TEMPE
105
Trade : SWAP
106
Math course : TRIG
107
16th-century date : MDII
108
High-strung : TAUT
109
Canyon mouth : ABRA
110
Ohio campus : KENT
111
Otherwise : ELSE
113
Mad. or 5th : AVE
114
Degree : NTH
115
Recipe abbr. : TBS

Answer summary:
10 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 18 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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