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Jean Reed
Jean Reed

New York Times, Wednesday, November 15, 1978

43-Across : Charge or accuse

Author:
Jean Reed
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F J Q V X }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Jean Reed has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,599
Across
1
Count from Red Bank, N.J. : BASIE
6
Spotlight color : AMBER
11
Turn down the lights : DIM
14
Wrong : AMISS
15
River or province in Chile : MAULE
16
One, in Roma : UNO
17
Principled : RIGHTMINDED
19
Brit. peers : LDS
20
Court celebrity : ASHE
21
Cooler in August : ADE
22
Ear of corn, in Africa : MEALIE
24
___ Vegas : LAS
26
Progress : HEADWAY
27
Cut curvy edgings : SCALLOP
31
Chou ___ : ENLAI
32
Blackguard : CAD
33
Kind of play : ONEACT
35
"Wishing will make ___" : ITSO
38
"Just Molly ___ ... " : ANDME
40
Wheel mark in mud : RUT
41
Rubinstein : ARTUR
42
Bank (on) : RELY
43
Charge or accuse : INDICT
45
Controversial issue's initials : ERA
46
Cultural group: Comb. form : ETHNO
48
Stronghold : CITADEL
50
Dolt : SAPHEAD
52
Press for payment : DUN
53
___ out (ended) : PHASED
54
New Guinea port : LAE
56
Picardy river : OISE
60
Bosh : ROT
61
Flighty : HAREBRAINED
64
Pub order : ALE
65
Montezuma was one : AZTEC
66
Z-z-z : SNORE
67
A Kennedy : TED
68
Two make a fortnight : WEEKS
69
Abélard's "Sic ___" : ETNON
Down
1
Silent siren : BARA
2
He wrote "I Like It Here" : AMIS
3
Sound from a swain : SIGH
4
"War ___": Sherman : ISHELL
5
Sum, es, ___ : EST
6
Surrounded by : AMID
7
Leo's locks : MANE
8
Floret : BUD
9
Yttrium, e.g. : ELEMENT
10
Result of a cardplayer's error : REDEAL
11
Slow : DULLWITTED
12
Subcontinent : INDIA
13
Amble : MOSEY
18
Dixon's colleague : MASON
23
Robin of folk songs : ADAIR
25
Source of a bitter drug : ALOE
26
Feverish : HECTIC
27
Operation "souvenir" : SCAR
28
Chaplin prop : CANE
29
Muddle-minded : ADDLEPATED
30
Anise-flavored liqueur : PERNOD
34
C.P.A. : AUD
36
Word with thing or enough : SURE
37
Evangelist Roberts : ORAL
39
Tales of Hercules' labors : MYTHS
41
Aleutian island : ATTU
43
Bewildered : INADAZE
44
It's sweet or hard : CIDER
47
Sound of a jackass : HEEHAW
49
Consecrate : ANOINT
50
A Mother Goose Jack : SPRAT
51
Burn ___ in one's pocket : AHOLE
54
Edible emblem of Wales : LEEK
55
Beginning of learning : ABCS
57
Privy to : INON
58
Prefix with fluid or toxin : SERO
59
Sagan's "The Dragons of ___" : EDEN
62
Map abbr. : RTE
63
Enzyme : ASE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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