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Lois Sidway
Lois Sidway

New York Times, Wednesday, January 6, 1982

66-Across : Targets of gypsy moths, e.g.

Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Lois Sidway has 67 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 18 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,747
Across
1
Composed : STAID
6
Basics : ABCS
10
Epithet for Alexander Pope : WASP
14
TV's Mrs. Muir, Hope ___ : LANGE
15
Dragnet : TRAP
16
What hip-huggers hug : ILIA
17
Finished : OUTOFTHERUNNING
20
Kin of epsilon : ETA
21
Schubert specialty : LIED
22
Jamaican rock style : REGGAE
23
Bossy's abode : BARN
24
Pose : SIT
25
___-nod (drowse) : NID
26
Finish : COMETOACLOSE
31
Fanon : ORALE
32
Author Santha Rama ___ : RAU
33
H.R.E. name : OTTO
37
Fields, to Agrippa : AGRI
38
Shiite V.I.P.'s : IMAMS
40
Stunt plane's maneuver : LOOP
41
Shaver : TYKE
42
Coppola's "Apocalypse ___" : NOW
43
Epithet for Clemenceau : TIGRE
44
Finis : FINALCURTAIN
48
Some day times : PMS
51
Bask : SUN
52
Colorful food fish : OPAH
53
Fetter for a steed or a steer : HOPPLE
55
Spill over : SLOP
56
See : GET
59
62
Trivet piece : TILE
63
"___ Heart," 1964 song : DEAR
64
Fairbanks role: 1920 : ZORRO
65
Sole : ONLY
66
Targets of gypsy moths, e.g. : OAKS
67
Pierce : ENTER
Down
1
Wild plum : SLOE
2
Tight as a drum : TAUT
3
Theater org. : ANTA
4
Kelly's "___ Pogo" : IGO
5
Take the air out : DEFLATE
6
Goddess of wisdom : ATHENA
7
Engendered : BRED
8
Pony ___ : CAR
9
Fraudulent : SPURIOUS
10
Kind of nut : WING
11
True : ALIGN
12
Peninsula often in the news : SINAI
13
Called via a bellhop : PAGED
18
Cicero's famous scribe : TIRO
19
N.B.A. team : NETS
23
Opinion : BELIEF
24
Knock verbally : SLAM
26
Primer, for one : COAT
27
Bacchanal's bash : ORGY
28
Z, for 64 Across : MARK
29
Traffic-jam verb : CRAWL
30
Prehistoric tool : EOLITH
34
Vestment for Virgil : TOGA
35
Convex moldings : TORI
36
Command from a D.D.S. : OPEN
38
Derogatory suggestion : INNUENDO
39
Wind sound : MOAN
43
On which daring people fly : TRAPEZE
45
Spanish land area : ISLA
46
Side that a person is on : COLORS
47
Atop : UPON
48
Kind of finish : PHOTO
49
"___ On," Claude Akins TV series : MOVIN
50
What Circe cast : SPELL
54
The hunted : PREY
55
Where Mt. Rushmore looms : SDAK
56
Prepared for action : GIRT
57
To be, to Beauvoir : ETRE
58
Thunderous charioteer : THOR
60
Ceres or Luna : DEA
61
Finished first : WON

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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