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Russell
Russell

New York Times, Wednesday, May 23, 1979

Author:
Russell
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q W }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 25.3
Russell has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,788
Across
1
Island in a palindrome : ELBA
5
Interval : SPACE
10
Prenuptials party : STAG
14
Respiratory organ of fishes : GILL
15
Ragged Dick's creator : ALGER
16
Crab-eating mongoose : URVA
17
Slugger Slaughter : ENOS
18
New Zealand aboriginal : MAORI
19
Brad or spad : NAIL
20
Juggled hereditary factor : RECOMBINANTDNA
23
Stable staple : OAT
24
Groups of kilns : OASTS
26
TV interlocutor : EMCEE
30
Let fall : DROP
33
Laconian stream : IRI
34
Nobelist Bellow : SAUL
35
Son of Charlemagne : LOUISI
37
Muscular contraction : TIC
38
Co-discoverer of a genetic structure : SIRFRANCISCRICK
41
Letter covering: Abbr. : ENV
42
N.C.O.'s command : ATEASE
43
Coward : NOEL
44
No, in Edinburgh : NAE
45
Gusto : ZEST
46
Medieval guild : HANSE
47
Remove : ERASE
49
Miss Merkel : UNA
51
Twin spiral in genetics : THEDOUBLEHELIX
59
"I've ___ to London ... " : BEEN
60
Genetic duplicate : CLONE
61
Hereditary unit : GENE
62
Brazilian parrots : ARAS
63
"Squat like ___ ... ": Milton : ATOAD
64
___ even keel : ONAN
65
Jekyll's dark side : HYDE
66
"Who's ___ Now?": 1923 song : SORRY
67
Average : SOSO
Down
1
Elbe tributary : EGER
2
Ancestry : LINE
3
Group acting in concert : BLOC
4
"They ___ serve who ... " : ALSO
5
Rio dance : SAMBA
6
Braid of hair : PLAIT
7
Greek contest : AGON
8
___ alba (white wax) : CERA
9
Poet's Ireland : ERIN
10
___ Islands (Java, Borneo, etc.) : SUNDA
11
Change : TRANSITION
12
Female fliers : AVIATRICES
13
Radio soap, "Our ___ Sunday" : GAL
21
One of the Stooges : MOE
22
Subject : TOPIC
25
Farm tool : SICKLE
26
Ancient ascetic : ESSENE
27
Aorta, e.g. : MAINARTERY
28
Highway sign : CURVEAHEAD
29
Mischievous wee one : ELF
30
Item in Shylock's coffers : DUCAT
31
Danish-American journalist : RIIS
32
Bone: Comb. form : OSSE
35
"Better ___ than never" : LATE
36
Bills : ONES
39
Demolished : RAZED
40
Genetic messenger : RNA
46
Cry of surprise : HAH
48
Common or sixth follower : SENSE
49
Of an arm bone : ULNAR
50
Indigent : NEEDY
52
Wood sorrels : OCAS
53
In the preceding mo. : ULTO
54
Rude, clumsy person : BOOR
55
Selves : EGOS
56
Fabric with an open weave : LENO
57
Claire and Balin : INAS
58
Strange: Prefix : XENO
59
Cry of contempt : BAH

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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