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Helen Fasulo
Helen Fasulo

New York Times, Wednesday, August 30, 1967

51-Down : Mexican sandwiches.

Author:
Helen Fasulo
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { F J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Helen Fasulo has 94 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,591
Across
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Where Cuzco is. : PERU
5
Radar signal. : BLIP
9
Files. : RASPS
14
"___ a man who wasn't there." : IMET
15
Incarnation of Vishnu. : RAMA
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Nobelist poet. : ELIOT
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Sound meaning "I doubt it!" : UMPH
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Director of a ballet company. : IMPRESARIO
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A Delano. : SARA
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Washer. : GASKET
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Sixth sense, for short. : ESP
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Move slowly. : INCH
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Stirs up. : AROUSES
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Entire quantity. : SUMTOTAL
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Periods of time: Abbr. : YRS
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Pray: Lat. : ORA
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Speaker's reference. : NOTES
35
Menotti role. : AMAHL
39
River in China. : HAN
40
Swatch. : SNIPPET
42
Bering, for one. : SEA
43
Bit of French gossip. : ONDIT
45
Children: Lat. : PUERI
46
"___ semper tyrannis." : SIC
47
Flatfish. : DAB
49
Designating late-flowering plants. : SEROTINE
51
Shakespearean queen. : TITANIA
55
Duck genus. : ANAS
56
Bustle. : ADO
57
Fish. : TARPON
60
Try: Colloq. : STAB
63
In harmony. : CONSISTENT
65
Japanese ship. : MARU
66
Scallion. : ONION
67
Consumer. : USER
68
By and by. : ANON
69
Endocarp. : STONE
70
Optimistic. : ROSY
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Commercial abbreviation. : NTWT
Down
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Papal name. : PIUS
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Novel of 1816. : EMMA
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Curtain lecture. : REPRIMAND
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Statesman in the U.N. : UTHANT
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Resort city in Sussex East. : BRIGHTON
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Lhasa monk. : LAMA
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Gremlins. : IMPS
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Garment. : PARKA
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Period in English history. : RESTORATION
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State: Abbr. : ALA
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Ancestors. : SIRES
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Aplomb. : POISE
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Prevents. : STOPS
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Uncanny. : EERY
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Youthful European monarch. : CONSTANTINE
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Military monogram. : USM
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London district. : SOHO
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Monitor lizard. : URAN
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Off balance. : ATIP
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Southern constellation. : LEPUS
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German admiral of 1914. : SPEE
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Staff member. : ASSISTANT
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French exclamation. : HEIN
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Edging. : LACE
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Vocation of a knight. : ERRANTRY
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Peak of Crete. : IDA
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Prejudice. : BIAS
50
17th-century Dutch explorer. : TASMAN
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Mexican sandwiches. : TACOS
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"___ Care." : IDONT
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Opera role. : TONIO
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Polish man's name. : ARTUR
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Coin of Manila. : PESO
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Unites. : ONES
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"And pretty maids all in ___." : AROW
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Baseball strategy. : BUNT
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Heir. : SON

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

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