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Joseph McLaughlin
Joseph McLaughlin

New York Times, Tuesday, August 5, 1975

13-Down : Girl of Gershwin song

Author:
Joseph McLaughlin
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F K Q V W X }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Joseph McLaughlin has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,488
Across
1
Name for Dallas : BIGD
5
Street Singer's girl : MARTA
10
Close : SEAL
14
Spread : OLEO
15
Miss Massey : ILONA
16
All: Prefix : OMNI
17
Swanky Berlin song : PUTTINONTHERITZ
20
Draft org. : SSS
21
Loop, in anatomy : ANSA
22
Girl of "West Side Story" : MARIA
23
Bargain-item tag : ASIS
24
Ski lift : TBAR
26
She's "the only one" : MARGIE
29
Go before : PRECEDE
32
Thought: Prefix : IDEO
33
Papa Doc's land : HAITI
34
Beiderbecke solo, with 26 down : INA
36
Gene Kelly classic : SINGININTHERAIN
40
___ the line : TOE
41
Gambling game : MONTE
42
Wavy, in heraldry : UNDE
43
Duelists' needs : SECONDS
45
Convent superior : ABBESS
47
Ripens : AGES
48
Slippery : EELY
49
Kostelanetz : ANDRE
52
Volcano : ETNA
53
Name for a G.I. : JOE
56
D.V. Silvers's jazz song : LEARNINTHEBLUES
60
N.L. pitcher Randy : TATE
61
Andrea ___ : DORIA
62
Monogram part: Abbr. : INIT
63
Gem : OPAL
64
Guinness et al. : ALECS
65
Girl of piano song : NOLA
Down
1
Jazz forms : BOPS
2
Son of Tros : ILUS
3
Understands : GETS
4
Morse-code unit : DOT
5
The Moocher : MINNIE
6
At ___ for words : ALOSS
7
Columnist Barrett : RONA
8
Explosive : TNT
9
Word said for doctors : AAH
10
Querying words about June : SORARE
11
Arab ruler : EMIR
12
Against : ANTI
13
Girl of Gershwin song : LIZA
18
Rumanian city : IASI
19
Gaunt, in France : EMACIE
23
Excited : AGOG
24
Unoriginal : TRITE
25
Alcott girl : BETH
26
See 34 Across : MIST
27
Farewell : ADIOS
28
Miss Adoree : RENEE
29
What Sam made too long : PANTS
30
"Seventh Heaven" theme girl : DIANE
31
Bagnold and others : ENIDS
33
Red deer : HINDS
35
Chemical suffixes : ANES
37
Girl in "Cymbeline" : IMOGEN
38
"___ but the brave ... " : NONE
39
Keeler : RUBY
44
Library cubicle : CARREL
45
Vergil hero : AENEAS
46
Snitch on : BLAB
48
Body of morals : ETHIC
49
Choir voice : ALTO
50
Tide : NEAP
51
Information : DATA
52
Be, in Paris : ETRE
53
Woman in O'Casey title : JUNO
54
Trompe l'___ : OEIL
55
This, in Spain : ESTA
57
Cantor's girl : IDA
58
___-pros (legal move) : NOL
59
Writer Yutang : LIN

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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