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Sophie Fierman
Sophie Fierman

New York Times, Friday, September 5, 1975

9-Down : Lightning device

Author:
Sophie Fierman
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Sophie Fierman has 24 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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C
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H
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E
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F
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M
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H
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C
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A
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M
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R
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H
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S
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T
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O
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S
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P
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M
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A
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N
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T
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L
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C
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V
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D
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A
B
A
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O
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D
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R
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F
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K
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U
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N
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C
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D
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B
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P
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N
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F
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P
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R
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P
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N
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,519
Across
1
Culinary expert : CHEF
5
Inscribed pillar : STELA
10
Relent : MELT
14
Frost : HOAR
15
One who quotes : CITER
16
Sego-lily state : UTAH
17
Church section : APSE
18
Perfume : ATTAR
19
Clio, for one : MUSE
20
French monk of First Crusade : PETERTHEHERMIT
23
Despise : HATE
24
Author of "The Wandering Jew" : SUE
25
Submits : STOOPS
28
Angler : PETERMAN
33
Shows effect : TELLS
34
___ in (collapsed) : CAVED
35
Camel's-hair fabric : ABA
36
United : ONED
37
Relative of O.K. : ROGER
38
Antiaircraft fire : FLAK
39
Fleet initials : USN
40
Kind of chest : CEDAR
41
Fed up with life : BLASE
42
Foe of adulthood : PETERPAN
44
Criticized severely : FLAYED
45
Recent: Prefix : NEO
46
Demonstration : RIOT
47
Law of big-business inefficiency : PETERPRINCIPLE
54
Cab or dancer : TAXI
55
Annoy : TEASE
56
___ to Mandalay : ROAD
57
Dismounted : ALIT
58
Kefauver : ESTES
59
Stare rudely : OGLE
60
Compassion : PITY
61
Dean Martin specialty : ROAST
62
High ___ : NOON
Down
1
Fellow : CHAP
2
Famous diamond : HOPE
3
___ Lynne : EAST
4
Jersey trotting track : FREEHOLD
5
Taxes, in old days : SCATTS
6
Tenth : TITHE
7
Little: Suffix : ETTE
8
Jacob's wife : LEAH
9
Lightning device : ARRESTER
10
Marcher in annual Phila. parade : MUMMER
11
Small case : ETUI
12
"___ Exit to Brooklyn" : LAST
13
Article : THE
21
Chews the fat : RAPS
22
Wished one hadn't : RUED
25
Tankard : STOUP
26
On edge : TENSE
27
Scented : OLENT
28
Heathen : PAGAN
29
By any chance : EVER
30
Peninsula of Asia : MALAY
31
Humble : ABASE
32
"The ___ and the Dead" : NAKED
34
Musical finale : CODA
37
Member of the Fourth Estate : REPORTER
38
Early New York skyscraper : FLATIRON
40
Algonquian : CREE
41
Coalition : BLOC
43
Self-contained unit : ENTITY
44
Word for New York's police : FINEST
46
Rebels : RISES
47
Hawaiian slope : PALI
48
Sign over some doors : EXIT
49
Mexican coin : PESO
50
Pro ___ : RATA
51
Kind of stick : POGO
52
French composer : LALO
53
Garden : EDEN
54
Bug a phone : TAP

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 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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