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William Canine
William Canine

New York Times, Friday, October 16, 1981

Author:
William Canine
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { V W Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Grid flow: 24.7
William Canine has 65 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,665
Across
1
Brit. fliers : RAF
4
Fasten : CLAMP
9
Craving for chalk, e.g. : PICA
13
Site of Milton's Pandemonium : HELL
14
Forearm bones : RADII
15
Summon to court : HALE
16
___ the Great: 912–73 : OTTO
17
Palm that produces nuts : ARECA
18
Harpsichordist Kipnis : IGOR
19
Convention activity : ORATING
21
Partial resemblance : ANALOGY
23
Abandon : FORSAKE
24
Word with will or wind : ILL
25
One "little woman" : AMY
26
Philately and golf : PASTIMES
31
Grimp : CLIMB
34
Put side by side : JUXTAPOSE
35
D.D.E.'s opponent : AES
36
Pickets : PALES
37
African cobra : ASP
38
View from the George Washington Bridge : PALISADES
41
Pulitzer poet: 1944 : BENET
43
Painted : ENAMELED
44
Stole : BOA
45
Prior to: Prefix : PRE
46
Budapest, for one : QUARTET
50
Easy and Grub : STREETS
54
Free of guile : ARTLESS
55
Motor : TOUR
56
Puts out of competition : OUSTS
58
Information : DATA
59
Home of the Hawks : OMNI
60
October lollipop : TREAT
61
Period in a Jewish year : OMER
62
Shed : PEEL
63
Firearm mechanisms : SEARS
64
Homework for an ed. : MSS
Down
1
Prefix with fire or choir : RETRO
2
Where a sacerdos presides : ALTAR
3
Vagrants : FLOTSAM
4
Cross : CRANKY
5
A size : LARGE
6
Drink : ADE
7
Silicate : MICA
8
Arrau and Duchin : PIANISTS
9
Painter commissioned by Victoria : PHILLIP
10
Symbol of false friendship : IAGO
11
Stop up : CLOG
12
Ethereal : AERY
13
Dance : HOOF
20
Metrical foot : IAMB
22
Province in Can. : ALTA
26
Whined : PULED
27
Removes rowans : AXES
28
Wind sound : MOAN
29
Being, to Aquinas : ESSE
30
Clan branch : SEPT
31
Fear, for one : CAPE
32
Spare : LEAN
33
Cuba or Menorca : ISLA
34
Wear out : JADE
36
Loose outer garments : PALETOTS
39
Tie Pauline on a track : IMPERIL
40
Withered, to George Wither : SERE
41
Umiak or shell : BOAT
42
Peer's realm : EARLDOM
44
Breaks open : BURSTS
46
State on the Persian Gulf : QATAR
47
Lions and Tigers : TEAMS
48
___ Park (which is not a park) : ESTES
49
Boris Godunov, e.g. : TSAR
50
Tuned set of organ pipes : STOP
51
Publisher's ponderous product : TOME
52
Old Norse poem : RUNE
53
Trustworthy : SURE
57
Place for gobs of gobs : SEA

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