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Sara V. Tuckerman
Sara V. Tuckerman

New York Times, Saturday, December 21, 1974

Author:
Sara V. Tuckerman
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 58, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 50.3
Sara V. Tuckerman has 40 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,261
Across
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___ Street : SESAME
7
Rhubarb : HASSLE
13
Like "Gulliver's Travels" : SATIRIC
14
Runaways : ELOPERS
16
Actually : INTRUTH
17
Balkan republic : ALBANIA
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Kind of gas or oil : COAL
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Snake : COBRA
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Tammany's nemesis : NAST
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Different : OTHERTHAN
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Not turn ___ : AHAIR
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Thor's wife : SIF
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Composer Franz : LEHAR
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Weedy grass : DARNEL
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Count : NUMERATE
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Nabokov title : ADA
38
Light in a night sky : AIRGLOW
40
Bolger : RAY
41
Wondrous things : MIRACLES
43
Drink : TIPPLE
45
Delay : STALL
46
Monk's title : DOM
48
Blends : FUSES
49
Household groupings, in law : MESSUAGES
52
Northern birds : AUKS
55
Fur-bearing animal : OTTER
56
Run swiftly : HARE
60
Endurance : STAMINA
62
Certain inhabitants : NATIVES
64
Show-off : PARADER
65
Liar : ANANIAS
66
Word for John or Abe : HONEST
67
Obstinate : DOGGED
Down
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Healthy, in Spain : SANO
2
Miss Kett : ETTA
3
Cut of meat : SIRLOIN
4
Indonesian island group : ARU
5
Miller of music : MITCH
6
Certain bridge signals : ECHOES
7
Sincere : HEARTFUL
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Deity of Islam : ALLAH
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Sorrowful sound : SOB
10
Kind of wrench : SPANNER
11
Miss Horne : LENA
12
Goddess of discord : ERIS
13
So, to Caesar : SIC
15
Day: Abbr. : SAT
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Reveals : BRINGSOUT
23
Golden syrup : TREACLE
24
Atlantic food fish : ALEWIFE
25
U. S. President : ADAMS
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"I've ___!" : HADIT
27
Australian cockatoo : ARARA
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Talks persistently, with "on" : HARPS
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"And thereby hangs ___" : ATALE
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Spanish kings : REYES
34
Diamond ___ : LIL
36
Bon ___ : MOT
39
European songbird : REDSTART
42
One supported by charity : ALMSMAN
44
Intrusive : PUSHING
47
Bacchante : MAENAD
50
Units of loudness : SONES
51
Cum ___ salis : GRANO
52
Uraeus : ASP
53
Neighbor of Nevada : UTAH
54
Small tree of N. Z. : KARO
57
For life: Fr. : AVIE
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Interpret : READ
59
Letter : ESS
61
Chemical ending : IDE
63
Word with line or day : TAG

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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