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Timothy S. Lewis
Timothy S. Lewis

NUMBERS MAGIC

New York Times, Sunday, September 30, 1979

3-Down : "Wait ___ Dark"

Author:
Timothy S. Lewis
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 136, Blocks: 77, Avg Word Len: 5.35, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 568 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 142, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 14, XRef: 2, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11 Grid has duplicate clues.
Timothy S. Lewis has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,918
Across
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Flatten : CRUSH
6
Little hooters : OWLETS
12
Italian dessert : SPUMONI
19
Jouster's weapon : LANCE
20
Marched en masse : TROOPED
21
Pedestrian bullfighters : TOREROS
22
Fur magnate : ASTOR
23
Impedes : HINDERS
24
"My cup ___ over" : RUNNETH
25
V.P. after Hubert : SPIRO
26
Ransom : REDEEM
27
Obese one's nickname : FATSO
28
Author of "Men of Iron" : PYLE
29
Prefix with gram or type : TELE
30
Anne's 1,000 : DAYS
31
Place where jays prey : NEST
35
43,560 sq. ft. : ACRE
37
Puts the lid back : RESEALS
41
Devil's walking-stick, e.g. : TREE
42
Sapphira's coconspirator : ANANIAS
45
Rand and Struthers : SALLYS
46
Revealed : SHOWN
47
Horse exercise yard : PADDOCK
48
Futile : OTIOSE
49
Picked dandelions : WEEDED
50
Aussies' animals : ROOS
51
Spat : TIFF
53
Rate of speed: Abbr. : MPH
54
Indy cars lack these : FENDERS
55
___ days, for prayer and fasting : EMBER
57
Bug killer : DDT
58
Indeed : YEA
59
Bassoon's little cousin : OBOE
60
"Jumblies" craft : SIEVE
61
Morse code signals : DAHS
63
Liza or Mizar : STAR
65
I.C.C. concern : RATES
69
Within: Prefix : ENDO
71
Inquisitive interjections : EHS
73
Abzug trademark : HAT
74
To the point : ADREM
75
"Miniver Cheevy, ___ late ... " : BORNTOO
78
Misery : WOE
79
What Simon does : SAYS
81
Simple : MERE
82
Certain daisies : OXEYES
83
Tranquilize : SOOTHE
85
Wife jilted for Cleopatra : OCTAVIA
87
Irate : RILED
88
Hi-fi component, for short : PREAMP
89
Peak sometimes called Tacoma : RAINIER
90
Invention germ : IDEA
91
Most uncivilized : WILDEST
92
Brothers in an abbey : FRAS
93
Melampus or Mopsus : SEER
94
Certificate : BOND
95
Author Wiesel : ELIE
97
Auditors : CPAS
101
Pitiful : SORRY
103
Eggnog additive : NUTMEG
106
Verbal contraction : SHANT
107
Off one's rocker : BANANAS
110
Lord High Everything Else : POOHBAH
111
Dark grayish blue : PERSE
112
Pressing : EXIGENT
113
Car-door feature : ARMREST
114
Homophone for 22 Across : ASTER
115
Behaves : DEPORTS
116
Fermented dairy food: Var. : YAOURT
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Manner : STYLE
Down
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Foulard fastener : CLASP
2
Grating : RASPY
3
"Wait ___ Dark" : UNTIL
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Idol : HERO
6
Mirador : ORIEL
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Word with star or stone : LODE
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Inventor of a sign language : EPEE
10
Type of paper : TERM
11
Radical org. : SDS
12
Pound prospects : STRAYS
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Sulks : POUTS
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Ash holders : URNS
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Bauxite, e.g. : ORE
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"To Have and Have ___" : NOT
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Iffy suffix : ISH
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Like G.W.'s wooden teeth : FALSE
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Leaflet : TRACT
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Disintegrate slowly : ERODE
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Dorcas was one : SEWER
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Minds : TENDS
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John L. Lewis's group in the 30's : CIO
38
"I earn that I ___": Shak. : EAT
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Viscous : SLIMY
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Decamps : ELOPES
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After, to Marcel : APRES
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Explorer Uemura : NAOMI
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Pueblo material : ADOBE
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Certain madrileña : SENORA
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Arachnid's work : WEB
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Anti-saccharin agcy. : FDA
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Like prom suits : RENTED
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Drove away : SHOOED
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Top rating for 94 Across : AAA
66
Roman fontana : TREVI
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Uncanny : EERIE
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Slander : SMEAR
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Southampton shindigs : DOS
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Caterpillars' hairs : SETAE
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Godunov or Badenov : BORIS
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Compound within rust : OXIDE
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Book by D. S. Freeman : RELEE
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Panic : SCARE
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Thorny : SPINY
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Ship initials : HMS
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Aunt, in Juárez : TIA
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Betters : WORSTS
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Arctic goose : BRANT
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Minimum : LEAST
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"Card ___," Stravinsky ballet : PARTY
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Photographer Adams : ANSEL
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1,000,000 cc. : STERE
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Kayo or lulu : ONER
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Writer Ephron : NORA
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Man, to Marcello : UOMO
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"Help Me Make It ___ the Night" : THRU
106
Springs : SPAS
107
Oyster's home : BED
108
Twibil : AXE
109
Tuck's partner : NIP
110
Word with roll or dirt : PAY

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

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