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Lazer
Lazer

New York Times, Tuesday, February 2, 1982

Author:
Lazer
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J Q V Y Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 21.4
Lazer has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,774
Across
1
Proceedings on record : ACTA
5
Sight at Asbury Park : SHORE
10
French clergyman : ABBE
14
Nickname of a 1941 Oscar winner : COOP
15
Grinder : MOLAR
16
Tissue : TELA
17
Thus : ERGO
18
Rani's homeland : INDIA
19
Burden : ONUS
20
Term with two meanings : DOUBLEENTENDRE
23
Require : NEED
24
Hotbeds : NESTS
25
Sole of a plow : SLADE
28
Declaims loudly : RANTS
31
Desdemona's detractor : IAGO
32
Pressure ___ : COOKER
34
Beast of burden : ASS
37
Start of a high-school cheer : TWOFOURSIXEIGHT
40
C.E., E.E. or M.E. : ENG
41
Petty academic : PEDANT
42
Memorable anthropologist : MEAD
43
Fashionable beach resorts : LIDOS
44
Gushes forth vigorously : SPEWS
45
Arty party : SALON
48
Landlord, in Livorno : OSTE
50
Hawthorne collection : TWICETOLDTALES
56
Hindu hero : RAMA
57
Footless animal : APODE
58
"Some ___ It Hot" : LIKE
60
Seed covering : ARIL
61
Kitchen utensil : PARER
62
Greek goddess of discord : ERIS
63
Caresses : PETS
64
Fleeced : SHORN
65
Bane of a new-car owner : DENT
Down
1
Parker of football fame : ACE
2
Unit of wood : CORD
3
Country in W. Africa : TOGO
4
"___ flesh": Shak. : APOUNDOF
5
Suggestion to a grump : SMILE
6
Sharpened : HONED
7
Adjective for a shoppe : OLDE
8
Precipitate : RAIN
9
Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
10
Expiates : ATONES
11
Sandhog's ailment : BENDS
12
Utter abruptly : BLURT
13
Alleviates : EASES
21
Buzzer : BEE
22
___ nous : ENTRE
25
Developer's concern : SITE
26
Thin, cotton fabric : LAWN
27
Eager; excited : AGOG
28
Luxemburg and Bonheur : ROSAS
29
Related : AKIN
30
Immediately following : NEXT
32
Signaled : CUED
33
Catholics' calendar of Offices : ORDO
34
Screenwriter for "The African Queen" : AGEE
35
Patricia Hearst ___ : SHAW
36
Uniform requirements: Abbr. : STDS
38
State one's view : OPINE
39
Driven : IMPELLED
43
Certain trains : LOCALS
44
Musical dir. : STA
45
Kind of hanger : STRAP
46
Knowing : AWARE
47
Confine : LIMIT
48
Stranger : ODDER
49
Like a martinet : STERN
51
Bugler's call : TAPS
52
Large, colorful fish : OPAH
53
Monk parrot : LORO
54
Gaelic name for Ireland : EIRE
55
"I've Got You Under My ___" : SKIN
59
Erhard therapy : EST

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

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