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Jack Luzzatto
Jack Luzzatto

New York Times, Saturday, August 6, 1977

41-Down : Plastics ingredient

Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.43, Missing: { J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 84, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Jack Luzzatto has 293 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,220
Across
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Religious mendicant : FRIAR
6
Army bombs : ROCS
10
Building sections : ELLS
14
Soup dipper : LADLE
15
Assert : AVOW
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Check a horse : REIN
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"Tempest" sprite : ARIEL
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Think hard : CEREBRATE
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Little Washington : GEO
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More watchful : ALERTER
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Pronoun for a ship : SHE
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A clash of symbols : MIXEDMETAPHOR
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Sets up a patsy : FRAMES
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Guam's capital : AGANA
30
Old stringsman : LUTIST
31
Cuddlers : NESTLERS
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Handle copy : EDIT
36
Hawaiian island : MAUI
37
Shrimp, lobster, crab, etc. : DECAPODS
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Hot-dish stand : TRIVET
44
Belief : TENET
45
Meditators : MUSERS
46
Voters' exams : LITERACYTESTS
50
Anger : IRE
51
Strong consonant : SPIRANT
52
Oxford fellow : DON
55
Sight "hearer" : LIPREADER
57
Slow movement, in music : LARGO
59
On the briny : ASEA
60
Mailed : SENT
61
French school : ECOLE
62
Quid of tobacco : CHEW
63
Madrileños: Abbr. : SRES
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Fight off : REPEL
Down
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Subject of a Cohan song : FLAG
2
Almost extinct : RARE
3
Colloquial : IDIOMATIC
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Pub serving : ALE
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Loosens up : RELAXES
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Revved : RACED
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Featherbed : OVERMAN
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Sad procession : CORTEGE
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" ... ___ apple cider" : SWEETAS
10
Misfigure : ERR
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Lead for a dog : LEASH
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Big colored poster : LITHO
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Derisive look : SNEER
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Wild goose : BRANT
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"___ we forget" : LEST
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Do likewise : IMITATE
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Diviner of hands : PALMIST
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Scrammed : FLED
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Less than urbane : RUDE
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Spy aurally : EAVESDROP
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Sorry fellow : RUER
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Takes a chair : SITS
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In itself : PERSE
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Cheap way to see the game : ONAPASS
40
Judge : DECIDER
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Plastics ingredient : STYRENE
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Treasury agents : TMEN
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Crooked cowboy : RUSTLER
46
Delicate purple : LILAC
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Kind of lace or potato : IRISH
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Plains dwelling : TEPEE
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Fruit pastries : TARTS
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Eye with pleasure : OGLE
54
December song : NOEL
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Unrefined : RAW
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Superb serve : ACE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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