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Elizabeth A. Yaro
Elizabeth A. Yaro

New York Times, Wednesday, August 7, 1974

40-Down : Misleading one

Author:
Elizabeth A. Yaro
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { C J Q W }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Elizabeth A. Yaro has 8 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,125
Across
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Composer Bela : BARTOK
7
Kind of circus : FLEA
11
Bee: Prefix : API
14
Disinclined : AVERSE
15
Incline, as a ship : LIST
16
Prohibit : BAN
17
Lively dances : GALOPS
18
Aware of : ONTO
19
Ways: Abbr. : STS
20
Performer : ARTIST
22
N.Z. native : MAORI
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Marsh birds : BITTERNS
27
Hunter : NIMROD
28
___ carte : ALA
29
In addition : YET
30
Largish : SIZABLE
31
Skillful : DEFT
33
Flier : LEAFLET
35
Praise : EXTOL
37
Peking V.I.P. : MAO
38
Minuteman's need : RIFLE
42
Activate anew : RESPARK
45
Farmer's concern : SOIL
46
Big blow : TORNADO
49
Code or gun : ZIP
51
Adjective suffix : IAL
52
Approximately : AROUND
53
Bright birds : TANAGERS
55
African animal : OKAPI
56
Real dilly : GASSER
57
Elected ones : INS
58
Tide : NEAP
60
Island off China : HAINAN
64
Predetermined : SET
65
Noisy outburst : GALE
66
Utterly foolish : INSANE
67
Mouse: Suffix : MYS
68
African village : STAD
69
Turbot genus : PSETTA
Down
1
Grab or wind : BAG
2
Gardner : AVA
3
Kind of pronoun: Abbr. : REL
4
Animal cry : TROAT
5
Fish hawk : OSPREY
6
Small falcon : KESTREL
7
Site of George Eliot's mill : FLOSS
8
Pocket gatherings : LINT
9
Boston time zone : EST
10
Dressing-table item : ATOMIZER
11
Engross : ABSORB
12
Make the rounds : PATROL
13
Kind of job : INSIDE
21
Music direction : INTEMPO
23
Violins : AMATIS
24
Ordered : BADE
25
Holly : ILEX
26
White House name : TAFT
27
Nothing : NIL
30
Italian count and family : SFORZAS
32
In shreds : TORNUP
34
Shoe size : AAA
36
Tendencies : LEANINGS
39
___ gras (goose liver) : FOIE
40
Misleading one : LIAR
41
Building wings : ELLS
43
Parcel carrier's abbreviation : SDD
44
Affinity : KINSHIP
46
Chinese religion : TAOISM
47
Islands off Scotland : ORKNEY
48
Marshmallow outings : ROASTS
50
Hymns : PAEANS
53
Recorded : TAPED
54
Gray, in Paris : GRISE
56
Festive : GALA
59
Consume : EAT
61
Turner or Cole : NAT
62
Hill builder : ANT
63
Education org. : NEA

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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