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Jordan S. Lasher
Jordan S. Lasher

New York Times, Wednesday, April 20, 1977

Author:
Jordan S. Lasher
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 315 (avg 1.68)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 7.0
Jordan S. Lasher has 60 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,112
Across
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Vigor : DASH
5
City on the Missouri : OMAHA
10
Modified organism : ECAD
14
Outer: Prefix : ECTO
15
"Day of the Locust" actress : KARENBLACK
17
Flowers-of-an-hour : BLACKEYEDSUSANS
19
Show-biz bomb : TURKEY
20
Marine corridor : SEALANE
21
Wood for skis : ASH
23
Elec. units : RELS
24
In a flutter : AGOG
28
Hirt and Smith : ALS
30
Winner over A.E.S. : DDE
33
Where ambiguities exist : GRAYAREA
36
Be disloyal to : BETRAY
39
Failing to be clear-cut : NOTBLACKORWHITE
41
Merman and Waters : ETHELS
42
Redone : MADEOVER
43
Unseld of the N.B.A. : WES
44
"___ Alte" (Adenauer) : DER
45
Lipstick shades : REDS
46
White ___ : SALE
49
Belgian resort : SPA
52
Engines, at times : WHINERS
55
Ukrainian seaport : ODESSA
60
Forest denizen : WHITETAILEDDEER
62
Light shades : MILKWHITES
63
15.432 grains : GRAM
64
Greek portico : STOA
65
Melancholy poem : ELEGY
66
Hard to hold : EELY
Down
1
Obligation : DEBT
2
Rights org : ACLU
3
Headliner : STAR
4
Pork cut : HOCK
5
Go-aheads: Var. : OKEYS
6
Spring time : MAY
7
War god : ARES
8
Jewish elementary schools : HEDERS
9
Handles for Hadrian : ANSAE
10
"___ Dream" : ELSAS
11
Brian in "Brian's Song" : CAAN
12
Skin problem : ACNE
13
Wharves: Abbr. : DKS
16
China-shop menace : BULL
18
Mauna ___, Hawaii's highest point : KEA
22
Between hic and hoc : HAEC
24
V.P. before Ford : AGNEW
25
Seaver's receiver : GROTE
26
Imprecatory remarks : OATHS
27
Sudden shift, in sailing : GYBE
29
Delibes opus : LAKME
30
Tee shot : DRIVE
31
Like all U.S. coins : DATED
32
Witnesses : EYERS
34
Nothing's antithesis : ALL
35
Headland : RAS
36
Lumber piece: Abbr. : BRD
37
Ram's dam : EWE
38
U.S. missile : THOR
40
Regatta crew : OARS
44
Throw off course : DERAIL
46
Capital of former Russian America : SITKA
47
Once again : ANEW
48
River of forgetfulness : LETHE
50
Keats's art : POESY
51
Append : ADD
52
Iota : WHIT
53
Hawaiian city : HILO
54
Locale : SITE
56
Brink : EDGE
57
"Meadows brown and ___": Bryant : SERE
58
Circus performer : SEAL
59
Host : ARMY
60
Holden and Windom: Abbr. : WMS
61
Underpinning : LEG

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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