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Lazer
Lazer

New York Times, Monday, September 20, 1982

44-Down : Mystery writer Dorothy

Author:
Lazer
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Lazer has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,004
Across
1
Like Savalas : BALD
5
Long and thin : REEDY
10
Underground growth : ROOT
14
Mélange : OLIO
15
Joe Miller joke : OLDIE
16
Catch sight of : ESPY
17
Thine, in Tours : ATOI
18
Orwellian relative : BIGBROTHER
20
Jolson relative : SONNYBOY
22
Kind of offering : PEACE
23
Parts of a fathom : FEET
24
Mineral springs : SPAS
26
Din : UPROAR
29
___ Marie : SAULTSTE
33
Draw material into gathers : SHIRR
34
Mixes : STIRS
35
Author Deighton : LEN
36
Position of control : HELM
37
Skirt style : ALINE
38
Carry on : RANT
39
Chemical ending : ENE
40
Official decree : EDICT
41
Sir, in Barcelona : SENOR
42
Dhu or Hudson of fiction : RODERICK
44
Like Sumatra's climate : SULTRY
45
Thames gallery : TATE
46
Actress Storm : GALE
47
Guinness et al. : ALECS
50
Give up, relatively speaking : SAYUNCLE
54
Relative prominent on New Year's Eve : FATHERTIME
57
"Sure thing" exponent : TOUT
58
Prefix for cede : ANTE
59
More logical : SANER
60
Mystery writer Gardner : ERLE
61
___ up, as a horse : REAR
62
Lock of hair : TRESS
63
___ ex machina : DEUS
Down
1
Anaconda and python : BOAS
2
Palo ___ : ALTO
3
Simba : LION
4
"How all occasions ___ against me": Hamlet : DOINFORM
5
Sutton was one : ROBBER
6
"Romola" author : ELIOT
7
Nervous : EDGY
8
Dip bait lightly : DIB
9
Suffix with law or saw : YER
10
Teacher's second checkup : RETEST
11
Fed. agency : OSHA
12
Oil cartel : OPEC
13
Ancient Phoenician capital : TYRE
19
October gemstores : OPALS
21
Twelve months : YEAR
24
Holy person : SAINT
25
Unadulterated : PURE
26
Wedding attendant : USHER
27
Prefix with barbital : PHENO
28
Het up : RILED
29
What T.R. toted : STICK
30
Lie on an incline : SLANT
31
Pavarotti, e.g. : TENOR
32
Vestibule : ENTRY
34
___ of life : SLICE
37
Mine entrance : ADIT
38
Softened : RELENTED
40
Obliterate : ERASE
41
Sea of the Philippines : SULU
43
Dürer was one : ETCHER
44
Mystery writer Dorothy : SAYERS
46
Events at Shea : GAMES
47
Not near : AFAR
48
Highway division : LANE
49
Kett of comics : ETTA
50
Trig function : SINE
51
Center : CORE
52
Lollapalooza : LULU
53
Savoie summers : ETES
55
UVW predecessors : RST
56
___ and feather : TAR

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

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