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Jay Spry
New York Times, Monday, July 29, 1974
1-Down : Beans
Author:
Jay Spry
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Jay Spry has 16 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 L | 2 A | 3 I | 4 R | 5 A | 6 P | 7 O | 8 S | 9 T | 10 G | 11 L | 12 U | 13 M |
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14 I | D | L | E | 15 M | A | L | T | A | 16 B | A | R | E |
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17 M | A | I | N | 18 S | T | R | E | A | M | 19 S | K | I | T |
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20 A | G | A | T | E | S | 21 S | N | I | 22 T | 23 E | S | E |
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24 S | E | D | E | R | 25 C | L | I | 26 F | F | |||||
27 D | E | 28 F | 29 A | 30 M | E | 31 M | A | R | 32 C | 33 H |
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34 W | 35 A | 36 R | 37 N | I | C | E | 38 L | O | L | A |
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39 A | L | I | 40 M | E | N | T | A | 41 R | 42 Y | 43 C | A | N | A | L |
44 G | A | V | E | 45 N | E | A | R | 46 T | D | S |
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47 E | N | E | M | 48 Y | 49 B | A | D | M | A | 50 N | ||||
51 R | O | D | 52 E | O | 53 V | E | 54 N | 55 O | 56 M |
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57 A | 58 B | C | 59 S | A | L | 60 T | 61 L | A | C | U | N | A |
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62 G | R | I | 63 T | 64 S | E | A | 65 N | E | T | T | L | E | S |
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66 R | A | T | E | 67 T | R | I | E | S | 68 A | L | A | S |
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69 I | D | Y | L | 70 S | O | L | O | S | 71 R | O | T | E |
© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,116
Across
1
Den : LAIR
5
Deaf as ___ : APOST
10
Morose : GLUM
14
Vain : IDLE
15
Knights of ___ : MALTA
16
Unadorned : BARE
17
Dominant trend : MAINSTREAM
19
Stage routine : SKIT
20
Marbles : AGATES
21
Irritated state : SNIT
23
Native of: Suffix : ESE
24
Passover meal : SEDER
25
Kind of hanger : CLIFF
27
Malign : DEFAME
31
Mailbox listing for the Little Women : MARCH
34
Kind of bride or bonnet : WAR
37
Precise : NICE
38
"Damn Yankees" temptress : LOLA
39
Passageway of a sort : ALIMENTARYCANAL
44
Furnished : GAVE
45
Stingy : NEAR
46
N.F.L. scores : TDS
47
"We have met the ___, and ... " : ENEMY
49
Western outlaw : BADMAN
51
Place for broncs : RODEO
53
Spitefulness : VENOM
57
Rudiments : ABC
59
Wit : SALT
61
Blank space : LACUNA
62
Courage : GRIT
64
Jellyfish : SEANETTLES
66
Deserve : RATE
67
Stabs : TRIES
68
State: Abbr. : ALAS
69
Pastoral poem : IDYL
70
Flies : SOLOS
71
Use of memory : ROTE
Down
1
Beans : LIMAS
2
Saw : ADAGE
3
Account of tribulations : ILIAD
4
Let : RENTED
5
Quantities: Abbr. : AMTS
6
Average : PAR
7
Cheers : OLES
8
Position : STANCE
9
Ceylonese native : TAMIL
10
Literary initials : GBS
11
Summer-cottage site : LAKEFRONT
12
U.S. novelist : URIS
13
Deal out : METE
18
Unruffled : SERENE
22
Young Cratchit : TIM
26
F.D.R. pet : FALA
28
Fiver : FIN
29
Behave : ACT
30
"It don't ___ thing ... " : MEANA
32
Decked out : CLAD
33
Dutch painter : HALS
34
Conduct : WAGE
35
Arkin : ALAN
36
"Music Man" locale : RIVERCITY
40
Note : MEMO
41
Holzman : RED
42
Tuber : YAM
43
Tie : CRAVAT
48
Scotland et al.: Abbr. : YDS
49
Spanish dance : BOLERO
50
Juno's drink : NECTAR
52
Bridge seats : EASTS
54
No-trick bid : NULLO
55
___ a time : ONEAT
56
Billiard stroke : MASSE
57
Fields: Lat. : AGRI
58
Nail : BRAD
60
Shadow : TAIL
61
Lowlier : LESS
63
___ Aviv : TEL
65
Kind of Gothic : NEO
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 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.