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Joseph LaFauci
Joseph LaFauci

New York Times, Thursday, February 6, 1958

Author:
Joseph LaFauci
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.37, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 82, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 2, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 37.1 Grid has duplicate clues.
Joseph LaFauci has 70 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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C
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P
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© 1958, The New York TimesNo. 3,145
Across
1
Very important person. : MOGUL
6
Sound, as of rain on a roof. : SPATTER
13
Proof sheet for final corrections. : REVISE
14
Chateau Yquem. : SAUTERNE
15
Before midnight. : ELEVEN
16
Intelligentsia. : LITERATI
17
Pottery. : WARE
18
Seaport in N. W. Ireland. : SLIGO
20
Snuggery. : DEN
21
Handle: Lat. : ANSA
22
Bath's river. : AVON
23
Simple. : PURE
24
Nothing: Fr. : RIEN
25
Small songbird. : WREN
26
Blacksnake. : RACER
27
More unbearable: Colloq. : DEADLIER
29
Put up fodder. : HAYED
30
Displacement units, in a ship. : TONS
31
Insincere talk. : CANT
32
Rib cut of beef. : PLATE
34
Famous name in the theatre. : BANKHEAD
38
Apices. : PEAKS
39
Work crew. : GANG
40
French pronoun. : ELLE
41
Stake at stud. : ANTE
42
River of central Italy. : ARNO
43
Hors d'oeuvre favorite. : PATE
44
French pronoun. : UNE
45
Semidesert region of Israel. : NEGEB
47
Detail. : ITEM
48
Hanger-on. : PARASITE
51
Seek (after). : ASPIRE
53
Originated. : EMANATED
54
Pureed. : SIEVED
55
Option pickup. : RENEWAL
56
Put one's foot in one's mouth. : ERRED
Down
1
Scarlett's rival. : MELANIE
2
Foreign. : OVERSEA
3
Good-humored exchange of talk. : GIVEANDTAKE
4
Application. : USE
5
Its power is measured in diopters. : LENS
6
Modern city of Indo-China. : SAIGON
7
Assume. : PUTON
8
Lunched. : ATE
9
Three times: Mus. : TER
10
Calumniate. : TRADUCE
11
Inscribed. : ENTERED
12
Chicago Symphony conductor. : REINER
13
Guerdon. : REWARD
14
Thin, often pointed piece. : SLIVER
19
Guardian spirits, in ancient Rome. : LARES
23
Bear the consequences. : PAYTHEPIPER
25
See 14 Across. : WINE
26
File's companion. : RANK
28
Numbers of things regarded as groups. : LOTS
29
Way of doing: Colloq. : HANG
31
Boat. : CANOE
32
Françoise Sagan, for example. : PENNAME
33
Papal church. : LATERAN
34
Thumped. : BANGED
35
Absolute superlative, in grammar. : ELATIVE
36
Modified. : ALTERED
37
Considered. : DEEMED
38
Character in Mark Twain title. : PAUPER
39
Peter the broom-maker's daughter. : GRETEL
42
Santa ___. : ANITA
46
Abject. : BASE
49
Suffix in chemical terms. : ANE
50
Maxim. : SAW
52
___ Winston. : SIR

Answer summary:
5 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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