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Jack L. Steinhardt
Jack L. Steinhardt

New York Times, Monday, September 22, 1975

24-Down : Threshing tool

Author:
Jack L. Steinhardt
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Jack L. Steinhardt has 39 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,536
Across
1
Mead or Victoria : LAKE
5
Propagated : BRED
9
Suffix for centi : PEDE
13
Pub products : ALES
14
Rise up : REAR
15
Miss Bow : CLARA
16
" ... going to St. ___" : IVES
17
City on the Jumna : AGRA
18
Desert greeneries : OASES
19
Northern stalwart : CANADIANMOUNTIE
22
Sis-boom-bah, e.g. : YELL
23
Teenagers' despair : ACNE
24
U.S. media agency : FCC
27
Compass point : ESE
28
Work on lace : TAT
29
Guevara : CHE
32
Pay honor to : LAUD
34
Standby troops : MILITIAS
36
Jack Armstrong et al. : ALLAMERICANBOYS
40
Enhanced in value : IMPROVED
41
Snick's partner : SNEE
42
U.S. sea-rescue group : LSS
43
Possessive : HIS
44
Bath or Evian : SPA
47
Draft org. : SSS
48
Balkan leader : TITO
49
Kind of joint : CLIP
51
Bald Pancho Villa, perhaps : MEXICANHAIRLESS
58
Swelling disease : EDEMA
59
Swiss river : AARE
60
"The ___ that men do ... " : EVIL
61
Mortise insertion : TENON
62
Rank : TIER
63
Prefix for space or naut : AERO
64
Presently : ANON
65
Loose ___ : ENDS
66
Ellen or John : DREW
Down
1
Secular : LAIC
2
Middle name in Menlo Park : ALVA
3
Lament : KEEN
4
Literary work : ESSAY
5
Sail ropes : BRAILS
6
Entertain : REGALE
7
___ one's keep : EARN
8
Sensational : DRAMATIC
9
Surface smoother : PLANE
10
Mysterious area : EAST
11
Three, in Bonn : DREI
12
Let up : EASE
15
Include : COUNTIN
20
Sandra : DEE
21
Florida city : OCALA
24
Threshing tool : FLAIL
25
___ down (subsides) : CALMS
26
Actor Robert and family : CULPS
29
Plant shoots: Var. : CIONS
30
Rutherford or Helen : HAYES
31
Curves : ESSES
33
___ es Salaam : DAR
34
Kind of way or riff : MID
35
Recipe abbr. : TBS
37
Uncas, for one : MOHICAN
38
Mrs. Peron : EVITA
39
Vibrate : RESONATE
44
Frightened : SCARED
45
Toolkit item : PLIERS
46
Melody : AIR
48
"___ of Athens" : TIMON
50
Make a court statement : PLEAD
51
Prefix for physics : META
52
Ideal spot : EDEN
53
Strange: Prefix : XENO
54
Spare, in Britain : HAIN
55
Always : EVER
56
Address to a sovereign : SIRE
57
Like the boat to China : SLOW

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 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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