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Bill Scollon
Bill Scollon

New York Times, Wednesday, August 21, 1974

12-Down : Celerity

Author:
Bill Scollon
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Bill Scollon has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,139
Across
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Letters on a transistor : AMFM
5
Matured : AGED
9
Explorer Johnson et al. : OSAS
13
Ibsen character : NORA
14
Streamlined : SLEEK
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Seaweed : KELP
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Stern : DOUR
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Images : IDOLS
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U. S. Indian : ERIE
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Petty perfectionists : STICKLERS
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Poet Heinrich : HEINE
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Crowd : THRONG
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Buffeted : CUFFED
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Roman 1103 : MCIII
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Miss Simon of films : SIMONE
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Tire and leg items : IRONS
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Relative : AUNT
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___ carte : ALA
33
Sounded : RANG
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Fast and frozen items : FOODS
36
Certain billing : STAR
37
Out of date: Abbr. : OBS
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Broad smile : GRIN
39
Mississippi region : DELTA
40
Kingly domains : REALMS
42
Menotti boy : AMAHL
43
Praline ingredients : PECANS
46
Sycophant : YESMAN
48
Writer Hoffer et al. : ERICS
49
Instilled deeply : IMPLANTED
52
One opposed : ANTI
53
Dispatch boat : AVISO
54
Storied home near 30 Down : TARA
55
Hundred, in Spain : CIEN
56
Province of Can. : MANIT
57
Operatic prince : IGOR
58
"The buck stops ___" : HERE
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Partners of odds : ENDS
60
Type of load or study : CASE
Down
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Companions of ifs and buts : ANDS
2
Debatable : MOOT
3
Realizations : FRUITIONS
4
"While we were ___ through ... " : MARCHING
5
Suitor John et al. : ALDENS
6
Song for Scarlett : GEORGIAONMYMIND
7
Fish for jellying : EELS
8
Playing-card units: Abbr. : DKS
9
"His Majesty ___" (Lancaster film) : OKEEFE
10
Letter stroke : SERIF
11
Dress style : ALINE
12
Celerity : SPEED
14
Farm unit : SILO
20
Malay dagger: Var. : KRIS
21
Look for : HUNT
23
Bamboozles : CONS
24
Painter Joan : MIRO
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Stone or horseshoe : CRAB
27
Rainy-day footing : MUD
30
City near Stone Mountain : ATLANTAGA
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Wood strip : LATH
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Russian sea : ARAL
34
Lippi and Angelico : FRAS
35
Peanut by-product : OIL
36
Of word meanings : SEMANTIC
38
Grant and Lee: Abbr. : GENS
39
Spanish lady : DAMA
40
French dramatist : RACINE
41
Toxic condition : SEPSIS
43
Fruit : PEACH
44
Ford or Pyle : ERNIE
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One who quotes : CITER
47
Reno machine : SLOT
49
___ the Terrible : IVAN
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Love god : EROS
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Venture : DARE
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French soul : AME

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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