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Peter Swift
Peter Swift

New York Times, Wednesday, August 3, 1983

Author:
Peter Swift
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { F Q X }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 64.2
Peter Swift has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,321
Across
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A one : TOPS
5
A Delano : SARA
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Sounds of surprise : HAHS
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Mergansers : SMEWS
15
Caspian feeder : URAL
16
City south of Moscow : OREL
17
Inchon is here : KOREA
18
Conductor Cooper : EMIL
19
Blue or White ___ : NILE
20
MacDonald-De Sylva-Gershwin song: 1924 : SOMEBODYLOVESME
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Word with north : TRUE
24
Most demure : COYEST
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Chalkboard adjunct : ERASER
28
Ring decisions : DRAWS
30
Lisbon's river : TAGUS
31
" ... a dog, a horse, ___": Shak. : ARAT
32
Diamond V.I.P.'s : UMPS
36
Algonquian language : CREE
37
Scrabble : GROPE
38
Lignite, e.g. : COAL
39
Moslem's pilgrimage : HADJ
40
Speak rhythmically : LILT
41
Emulate Rosalynn Sumners : SKATE
42
Stewart or Morris : UDALL
44
Punched : BELTED
45
Talked disrespectfully : SASSED
48
Relief pitcher's goal, at times : SAVE
49
Irving Berlin song: 1929 : PUTTINONTHERITZ
55
"An apple ___ ... " : ADAY
56
Vaselike vessel : EWER
57
Riveter of song : ROSIE
58
Cicero's secretary : TIRO
59
Wheys : SERA
60
Bass-baritone Simon ___ : ESTES
61
Words to an assassin : ETTU
62
Kind of job : SNOW
63
Glasgow-to-Edinburgh direction : EAST
Down
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Sounds of disapproval : TSKS
2
"Typee" sequel : OMOO
3
Salon offering, for short : PERM
4
Harris-Young song: 1928 : SWEETSUEJUSTYOU
5
Sweden, to a Parisian : SUEDE
6
Host : ARMY
7
Marsh bird : RAIL
8
Set apart for a purpose : ALLOCATE
9
Razaf-Waller song: 1929 : HONEYSUCKLEROSE
10
Stem : ARISE
11
Lawmaker Jesse : HELMS
12
Glaze of a sort : SLEET
14
Buffalo hockey team : SABRES
21
Maugham's "___ Betters" : OUR
22
Oath : VOW
25
Impress deeply : ETCH
26
___ avis : RARA
27
Mellowed : AGED
28
Waggish : DROLL
29
Engrossed : RAPT
31
Seed appendage : ARIL
33
Defensive trench : MOAT
34
Meat paste : PATE
35
"Citizen Kane" article : SLED
37
Joy : GLADNESS
41
Censorious : SEVERE
43
Saturn and Neptune, to Cato : DEI
44
Faugh! : BAH
45
Large outpouring : SPATE
46
Do a C.P.A.'s work : AUDIT
47
Head follower : START
48
Kind of vote : STRAW
50
Author Wister : OWEN
51
Pianist Peter : NERO
52
Livy's "that girl" : ISTA
53
Connections : TIES
54
Piquancy : ZEST

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

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