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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Saturday, September 24, 1983

11-Down : Sadat

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { F Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 6, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,373
Across
1
Ballad : POEM
5
Elevator part : CAGE
9
Type of furnace : BLAST
14
" ... wing ___ prayer" : ANDA
15
River into the Baltic : ODER
16
Revenue, in Rennes : RENTE
17
Anatomical channel : ITER
18
Pakistani garment : SARI
19
Waterloo native : IOWAN
20
Statesman : RAMSAYMACDONALD
23
Turkish cavalryman : SPAHI
24
Buddhist Thai people : LAO
25
God of war : ARES
26
Not in an undertone : ALOUD
29
Needlefish : GAR
31
False god : BAAL
34
Hat part : BRIM
36
Fully developed : ADULT
40
Novelist : EMILYJANEBRONTE
43
"The Velvet Fog" : TORME
44
Horne : LENA
45
"Thou ___ beguile the world": Shak. : DOST
46
White House nickname : CAL
48
Where Mandalay is : BURMA
50
Cacholong or fiorite : OPAL
53
Eastern Medit. country : ISR
55
Birdlike : AVIAN
59
63
Hello, in Hoolehua : ALOHA
64
Disturb : ROIL
65
Bard's negative : NEER
66
Reach effectively : GETAT
67
Barely makes out : EKES
68
"Virumque" follower : CANO
69
Anthony and Clarissa : EDENS
70
She, in Siena : ESSA
71
Adherents : ISTS
Down
1
Braces : PAIRS
2
Available : ONTAP
3
Tomato blight : EDEMA
4
Professor-author : MARSHALLMCLUHAN
5
Teapot cover : COSY
6
Garden evictee : ADAM
7
Actress : GERALDINEBROOKS
8
Plant used for making pipes : ERICA
9
Spirit; zest : BRIO
10
11
Sadat : ANWAR
12
Passé : STALE
13
Looks after : TENDS
21
Gallic garlic : AIL
22
Word with tag or paddle : DOG
27
Gram. case : OBJ
28
Russia's ___ Mountains : URAL
30
Rhine feeder : AAR
31
Play the ponies : BET
32
First-year Latin word : AMO
33
Demeanor : AIR
35
Preprandial reading : MENU
37
One, in Livorno : UNO
38
Inf. officers : LTS
39
Holiday in Hue : TET
41
Word of affirmation : YEA
42
Legal profession : BAR
47
Diamond ___ : LIL
49
Spoil : MAR
50
Missouri feeder : OSAGE
51
Was outshone : PALED
52
" ... ___ in your eye": Lamb : AMOTE
54
Pile of rock debris : SCREE
56
Suppositions : IDEAS
57
Emissary : AGENT
58
Pianist Peter's kin : NEROS
60
Breaks bread : EATS
61
Pure fiction : LIES
62
"Bridal Chorus" maiden : ELSA

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 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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