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Joel D. Lafargue
Joel D. Lafargue

New York Times, Friday, July 31, 1992

37-Down : Futile

Author:
Joel D. Lafargue
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { C Q Z }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Joel D. Lafargue has 51 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,606
Across
1
Captures : BAGS
5
Fissure : REFT
9
Salten's deer : BAMBI
14
Biblical trader : ESAU
15
Saddam Hussein's land: Var. : IRAK
16
Wide-awake : ALERT
17
Afterward : THEN
18
Church schedule : ORDO
19
Navigators Islands, today : SAMOA
20
Frocks for locks? : HEADDRESSES
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Symbol of wisdom : OWL
24
Devoid of fluid : ARID
25
Unmannered type : BOOR
27
Double play? : REPEAT
30
Patriotic org. : SAR
32
Gorby's turndown : NYET
35
Williams athlete : EPH
36
Give a farewell performance? : WAVEGOODBYE
39
Elijah Muhammad's original surname : POOLE
41
This may be thin : AIR
42
"The Wreck of the Mary ___" : DEARE
43
Work out all the bugs? : EXTERMINATE
46
Diarist Ana?s ___ : NIN
47
Where the Rhône and Saône meet : LYON
48
A minute after 12:59 : ONE
49
Plumbing tools : SNAKES
51
A ___ aardvark : ASIN
53
Adventure : GEST
54
Ind. neighbor : ILL
56
Officers' club? : MAJORLEAGUE
62
Leg bone : TIBIA
64
Others, to Ovid : ALII
65
Breeding place for 25 Across? : BARN
66
Threw, à la David : SLUNG
67
Kill a bill : VETO
68
Its captain wanted fleece : ARGO
69
___ Semple McPherson : AIMEE
70
A.D.C., for one : ASST
71
Cleansing solutions : LYES
Down
1
Actress Howland : BETH
2
Former court star : ASHE
3
Earth goddess : GAEA
4
Cherry-topped concoction : SUNDAE
5
Abbott-Costello film : RIORITA
6
Miscalculated : ERRED
7
Passing fancies : FADS
8
Part of Ali's rec. : TKOS
9
___ profundo : BASSO
10
Ga. neighbor : ALA
11
Where Dumbo saves dough? : MEMORYBANK
12
The ___, Dick Tracy foe : BROW
13
Letters like this: Abbr. : ITAL
21
Bureau section : DRAWER
22
Spanish river : EBRO
26
Marcel's wave? : ONDE
27
Drive back : REPEL
28
Resin used as an adhesive : EPOXY
29
This contains the pick of pix : PHOTOALBUM
30
Cod trap : SEINE
31
City of Uttar Pradesh : AGRA
33
High nest : EYRIE
34
New Kids fans, mostly : TEENS
37
Futile : VAIN
38
City on Fyn Island : ODENSE
40
Looking glass? : LENS
44
Leonardo's lady : MONA
45
His works are the "Cats" meow : TSELIOT
50
Type of drum : ATABAL
52
P.R. man's concern : IMAGE
53
Southern dish : GRITS
54
"___ boy!" : ITSA
55
Caron flick : LILI
57
Coffee, to some : JAVA
58
Corrida cheers : OLES
59
Ind. city : GARY
60
Exhort : URGE
61
"Dukes of Hazzard" lawman : ENOS
63
Leon's last name? : INE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 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.

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