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Jacobs
Jacobs

New York Times, Tuesday, January 2, 1979

20-Across : Diving bird

Author:
Jacobs
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 310 (avg 1.64)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Jacobs has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,647
Across
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Sufficiently skilled : ABLE
5
___ Islands, in the Philippines : BATAN
10
Squash, e.g. : PEPO
14
Poet famed for limericks : LEAR
15
Instruct : EDIFY
16
Astringent : ALUM
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They fight for breath : MARATHONRUNNERS
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Diving bird : AUK
21
Like a sentry : WARY
22
___ Mountains, in Missouri : OZARK
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Jazz jargon : JIVE
24
Title : NAME
26
Car's "home" : GARAGE
29
Fipple flute : RECORDER
33
Not up and around : ABED
34
Short, in Toledo : CORTO
35
Queen before Sophia : ENA
36
They fight Friedan, Steinem, etc. : MALECHAUVINISTS
40
Function : USE
41
Dear relative : AUNTY
42
Predecessor of crackle and pop : SNAP
43
"___ of Abdyos": Byron : THEBRIDE
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Ailment : MALADY
47
Not fooled by : ONTO
48
Nat or Natalie : COLE
49
Colosseum center : ARENA
52
Irish Republic, formerly : EIRE
53
Saratoga, e.g. : SPA
56
They uphold indefensible causes : DEVILSADVOCATES
60
Polish copy : EDIT
61
Aconcagua's range : ANDES
62
Shindig of a sort : BASH
63
Kind of flight : SOLO
64
Be a spendthrift : WASTE
65
Priam's domain : TROY
Down
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___ mater : ALMA
2
Suitor : BEAU
3
Happy bird : LARK
4
Epoch : ERA
5
Act : BEHAVE
6
Love : ADORE
7
Minute : TINY
8
Tanzania's cont. : AFR
9
Washington Sq. campus : NYU
10
Kind of division or tank : PANZER
11
Birthplace of Zeno : ELEA
12
Run smoothly : PURR
13
City in Siberia : OMSK
18
Shoot : TWIG
19
"No sun—___": T. Hood : NOMOON
23
Make weary : JADE
24
Displaying chutzpah : NERVY
25
Play opener : ACTI
26
Range : GAMUT
27
Discomfit : ABASH
28
Book by D. S. Freeman : RELEE
29
Trajectory : ROUTE
30
It joins the Dnieper near Kiev : DESNA
31
Toward the center : ENTAD
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Grating : RASPY
34
Seabees' motto : CANDO
37
Of the flesh : CARNAL
38
Dinner time for many Parisians : HUIT
39
Atoll : ISLE
44
Mackerellike fish : BONITO
45
Gloomy : MOROSE
46
Guinness : ALEC
48
Mongoose's cousin : CIVET
49
Aids for the parched : ADES
50
Change, as wallpaper : REDO
51
Wickedness : EVIL
52
High degrees for school administrators : EDDS
53
Astronomer's interest : STAR
54
Cuban coin : PESO
55
Pale : ASHY
57
Adage : SAW
58
Reminiscences in writing : ANA
59
Browning's "___ Vogler" : ABT

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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