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Eileen Lexau
Eileen Lexau

New York Times, Monday, September 25, 1967

Author:
Eileen Lexau
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { Q X Y }, Scrabble score: 304 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 1, XRef: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 25.8
Eileen Lexau has 17 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 10 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,617
Across
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Certain neckwear. : BIBS
5
Group at Langley Field. : USAF
9
Dears. : LAMBS
14
Under way. : ASEA
15
Dancer Kaye. : NORA
16
Become frosted. : ICEUP
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Made a market deal. : SOLDSHORT
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Your: Fr. : VOTRE
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See 2 Down. : ILE
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Yugoslav name. : TITO
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Bubble air through. : AERATE
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Strong man. : SAMSON
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Conestoga. : WAGON
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Seaweed. : ALGA
29
Introduce at intervals. : PHASEIN
33
Pause in the day's occupations. : COFFEEBREAK
37
Byre sound. : MOO
38
Fix of a kind. : HOLE
39
Avuncular figure. : SAM
40
Sibelius, for one. : FINN
41
Name akin to 34 Down. : UNA
42
Espionage method. : TROJANHORSE
46
Great race horse. : MANOWAR
48
Nigh. : NEAR
49
Ben Casey's colleague. : ZORBA
51
Pulls by twisting. : WRESTS
55
Truman. : CAPOTE
58
Finest. : BEST
60
Fruit seed. : PIP
61
Zoo denizen. : RHINO
62
Certain TV hours. : PRIMETIME
64
Colorado resort. : ASPEN
65
Frog genus. : RANA
66
Unsigned: Abbr. : ANON
67
Wavy pattern. : MOIRE
68
Portent. : OMEN
69
Await decision. : PEND
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Groundwork. : BASIS
2
Island: It. : ISOLA
3
Port of Brazil. : BELEM
4
Dejected. : SAD
5
Dislodge. : UNHINGE
6
Carbon. : SOOT
7
Missile. : ARROW
8
Pudgy. : FAT
9
Tree variety. : LIVEOAK
10
Product of 9 Down. : ACORNS
11
Beyond: Prefix. : META
12
Actor Lancaster. : BURT
13
Graf ___. : SPEE
18
Capelet. : STOLE
22
Turkish title. : AGHA
24
Not out. : SAFE
26
Pithecanthrope. : APEMAN
28
Take in moisture. : ABSORB
30
Arabian noble. : EMIR
31
Electrified particles. : IONS
32
Not one. : NONE
33
Chopped fish used as bait. : CHUM
34
Mrs. Chaplin. : OONA
35
Large pie. : FLAN
36
Reign, in India. : RAJ
40
Golfer's cry. : FORE
42
Designating a color combination. : TWOTONE
43
Excellent. : RARE
44
Huntley or Brinkley. : NEWSMAN
45
Writer Bret. : HARTE
47
Drive-in theater: Slang. : OZONER
50
Sarai's spouse. : ABRAM
52
Backbone. : SPINE
53
Man of Athens. : TIMON
54
Use up. : SPEND
55
Stuff. : CRAM
56
Danny Kaye being Japanese. : AHSO
57
N. Z. mollusk. : PIPI
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German "one." : EINE
62
Golf expert. : PRO
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Select, as for a fraternity. : TAP

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

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