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Robert W. Sturges
Robert W. Sturges

New York Times, Tuesday, August 1, 1978

58-Down : Artist Kingman

Author:
Robert W. Sturges
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Robert W. Sturges has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,580
Across
1
Party spoiler : BOOR
5
Wearing boots : SHOD
9
Constrict : STRAP
14
Grim Grimm character : OGRE
15
Kind of root : CUBE
16
World ___ Center, N.Y.C. : TRADE
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Like Main Street at 3:00 A.M. : DEAD
18
Leave out : OMIT
19
Arrested : RANIN
20
Hwang Hai, to Occidentals : YELLOWSEA
22
"Virtue ___ own reward" : ISITS
23
Building extension : ELL
24
Move slowly : INCH
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As high as ___ : AKITE
29
Cheongsam feature : SLIT
30
That liner : SHE
33
Stylishness : BONTON
35
Female lobster : HEN
36
Show pride or joy : GLOW
37
Alençon is its capital : ORNE
38
"___ with Me" : ABIDE
40
Hit-show review : RAVE
41
Swerve : VEER
42
"___ Be Seeing You," 1938 song : ILL
43
Vessel for NaCl : SHAKER
45
Favorable attention : EAR
46
Hebrew month : ELUL
47
Court hearings : OYERS
48
Investigate surreptitiously : CASE
49
Word with sister or story : SOB
50
One of Renoir's fortes : NUDES
53
Pea or Susan : BLACKEYED
59
Olympics listing : EVENT
60
Sean O'Kelly's land : EIRE
61
Prefix with dyne or sol : AERO
62
Import : SENSE
63
Thin, like Cassius : LEAN
64
Bestow abundantly : RAIN
65
Follower of gain or nay : SAYER
66
Trouter's need : LURE
67
Kind of race : DRAG
Down
1
Whodunit sine qua non : BODY
2
Pointed arch : OGEE
3
Evangelist Roberts : ORAL
4
Memorable : REDLETTER
5
Angry look : SCOWL
6
Buzzes : HUMS
7
Off Broadway award : OBIE
8
Far from cursory : DETAILED
9
Unyielding : STRICT
10
Type of tripe : TRASH
11
Romany wife : RANI
12
Stulm : ADIT
13
Confines, as sheep : PENS
21
Ersatz butter : OLEO
25
Lowest pinochle cards : NINES
26
"___ Suspicion," MacInnes book : ABOVE
27
Where Seoul is : KOREA
28
Kind of tube : INNER
29
Pitchman's decoy : SHILL
30
Satisfy, as thirst : SLAKE
31
Perform a helicopter maneuver : HOVER
32
Kin of cruses : EWERS
34
Items to be filed : NAILS
36
Old-timer : GRAYBEARD
39
Garden columbine : BLUEBELL
44
Opposite of a slice, in golf : HOOK
46
Paschal time : EASTER
48
Spread perfume at church : CENSE
49
Temper tantrum : SCENE
50
Eliot of the F.B.I. : NESS
51
Eye section : UVEA
52
Declare untrue : DENY
54
In ___ of (instead) : LIEU
55
Sandarac tree : ARAR
56
Class-ring inscription : YEAR
57
Silkworm : ERIA
58
Artist Kingman : DONG

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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