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Joseph LaFauci
Joseph LaFauci

New York Times, Saturday, March 30, 1974

Author:
Joseph LaFauci
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.37, Missing: { F J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 84, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 17.1
Joseph LaFauci has 70 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 8,995
Across
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"Scarlet Letter" girl : HESTER
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Receiving company : ATHOME
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Break one's diet : OVEREAT
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Leakage preventer : SEALANT
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Italian port : TARANTO
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Jack of films : PALANCE
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Irritable : EDGY
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Carriage : POISE
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Never, in Berlin : NIE
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C.S.A. hero : LEE
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City of Pakistan : LAHORE
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Comedian Wheeler : BERT
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Pittsburgh athlete : PIRATE
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Leave in the ___ : LURCH
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Piece of the fairway : DIVOT
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Germ-free : STERILE
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Hags : CRONES
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Made a poker move : RAISED
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Indulged : HUMORED
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French painter : MANET
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One of the Brontës : EMILY
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Undermined : ERODED
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Rich source : MINE
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In a funk : SCARED
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Camping item : COT
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___ trice : INA
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Topkick : SARGE
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Guinea pig : CAVY
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Healing plant in folk medicine : SANICLE
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Dice throw : NATURAL
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Surrounded area : ENCLAVE
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Manage : OPERATE
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Wet, as eyes : TEARED
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Shred : TATTER
Down
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Convention setting : HOTEL
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Circumvent : EVADE
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Suit fabric : SERGE
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Waiter's need : TRAY
5
Imitation fabric: Suffix : EEN
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Turn informer : RAT
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Has ambitions : ASPIRES
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Pester : TEASE
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Edward Everett : HALE
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Palm leaf: Var. : OLA
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One with affectations : MANNERIST
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Surround : ENCIRCLE
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Astaire-Rogers film : TOPHAT
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Went through an infant stage : TEETHED
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Not in, in Scotland : OOT
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Footman's wear : LIVERY
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Sprang up : AROSE
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Secreted : BURIED
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Corn flour : PINOLE
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Slanted : LEANED
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Authority : DOMINANCE
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Baseball deal : TRADE
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Shiftlike dress : CHEMISE
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Meditative : RUMINANT
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Ordained : DECREED
37
Rita of "West Side Story" : MORENO
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Scold : RAG
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Medicine-chest item : SALVE
43
Jewelry weight : CARAT
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Egg-shaped : OVATE
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City in Texas : TYLER
47
Rocky cliff : SCAR
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Brusque : CURT
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Rhodesian native : ILA
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Inclined : APT
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Assam specialty : TEA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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