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Hickmott
Hickmott

New York Times, Saturday, September 17, 1983

57-Down : Mary Baker or Nelson

Author:
Hickmott
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { F K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Hickmott has 8 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,366
Across
1
"___ di Lammermoor" : LUCIA
6
Kind of flare or furnace : SOLAR
11
___ alai : JAI
14
Plant of the rose family : AVENS
15
Apt : PRONE
16
He rules at home : UMP
17
Celtic bunny? : WELSHRABBIT
19
Small antelope : GOA
20
Biblical femme fatale : SALOME
21
External ear part : TRAGUS
23
Alençon or Brussels : LACE
25
Merchants : TRADERS
26
Lecturers : DOCENTS
29
Sped : RACED
30
G.I. address : APO
31
Prefix with chord or meter : OCTA
33
Spartan magistrate : EPHOR
36
___-frutti : TUTTI
39
Forelimb : ARM
40
Stanza : STAVE
41
Nobelist in Chemistry: 1922 : ASTON
42
Costa ___ : RICA
44
Legal point : RES
45
Like some beer : ONTAP
47
Surrounding : AMBIENT
50
Rambles : WANDERS
52
Read the ___ act to : RIOT
53
Raiment : ATTIRE
54
Gross : COARSE
58
"Ça ___," French Revolution song : IRA
59
Resort where bunnies go Dutch? : CONEYISLAND
63
Number of weeks per annum : LII
64
Martini ingredient : OLIVE
65
Hesitant : TIMID
66
"My Gal ___" : SAL
67
Bucks, e.g. : MALES
68
Fatuous : SAPPY
Down
1
Nomologists' specialties : LAWS
2
Layer of the eye : UVEA
3
Part of a honeycomb : CELL
4
Shoe part : INSOLE
5
Trash collector : ASHMAN
6
Bad Godesberg, e.g. : SPA
7
Sphere : ORB
8
Tennis stroke : LOB
9
Bedouin beauty in "Peer Gynt" : ANITRA
10
Goes over again : RETRACES
11
Imprisoned bunny? : JUGGEDHARE
12
Love affair : AMOUR
13
Common bridge bid : IPASS
18
Right-hand page : RECTO
22
Expert : ADEPT
24
Cliffs : ESCARPS
25
Colliery wagon : TRAMCAR
26
Information : DATA
27
Magnum ___ : OPUS
28
Bunny's follower? : COTTONTAIL
32
Quang ___, Vietnamese town : TRI
34
Comeuppance place for Gretel's witch : OVEN
35
Remainder : REST
37
Round paintings : TONDI
38
House phone : INTERCOM
43
Friends, to Fabius : AMICI
46
Small space : AREOLA
48
Increases : BOOSTS
49
Luciano's homeland : ITALIA
50
Keens : WAILS
51
Auricles : ATRIA
55
Wild leek : RAMP
56
Cut : SNIP
57
Mary Baker or Nelson : EDDY
60
Nothing : NIL
61
Conductor Queler : EVE
62
"___, We Have No Bananas" : YES

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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