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Jack L. Steinhardt
Jack L. Steinhardt

New York Times, Wednesday, November 16, 1977

5-Across : Featherpate

Author:
Jack L. Steinhardt
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J K Q U X }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Jack L. Steinhardt has 39 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,322
Across
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Miner's nail : SPAD
5
Featherpate : FOOL
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Macédoine, e.g. : SALAD
14
"The best is yet ___": Browning : TOBE
15
"Hep" : ONTO
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Bizarre, as a garment : CRAZY
17
Latitude : ROOM
18
Brown's action at Harpers Ferry: 1859 : RAID
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Wore : HADON
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Poll-taker Roper : ELMO
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Roman orator : CICERO
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Actress Arden : EVE
24
U.S. orator : WEBSTER
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Affectation : SHOW
28
Heath of England : TED
29
Workshops : ATELIERS
33
Author Mazo de la ___ : ROCHE
36
Part of a brake : SHOE
37
Nijinsky movement : LEAP
38
Fred who had an "Alley" : ALLEN
39
Extra-inning number : TEN
40
Coach Sherman, who said goodbye to the Giants : ALLIE
41
An element in our atmosphere : NEON
42
Bonnie hillside : BRAE
43
Hosiery thread : LISLE
44
Shabby : DOGEARED
46
Kind of jacket or shooter : PEA
47
Snick and ___ (thrust and cut) : SNEE
48
U.S. writer and lecturer : CLEMENS
52
Baseball stat. : ERA
55
Put in order : SETTLE
57
Conspiracy : PLOT
58
Pick up an option : RENEW
60
One of the Yalies : COED
61
How fainéants spend time : IDLY
62
"Iliad" subject : SIEGE
63
King spared by Saul : AGAG
64
Divulge : TELL
65
Register : ENTER
66
Adjective for cerium : RARE
67
Roble or wicopy : TREE
Down
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Spread around : STREW
2
First Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1918 : POOLE
3
Destructive weapon : ABOMB
4
Athenian orator : DEMOSTHENES
5
Compulsory : FORCED
6
Walking ___ (elated) : ONAIR
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Auricular : OTIC
8
Magnet : LODESTONE
9
Train : SCHOOL
10
Scorpio's neighbor : ARA
11
Do a harbor job : LADE
12
Sea NE of the Crimea : AZOV
13
Unit in the c.g.s. system : DYNE
22
Syngman of Seoul : RHEE
25
Harold of comics : TEEN
27
British orator : WILLIAMPITT
29
Leading : AHEAD
30
Ophidids' kin : EELS
31
Berate : RAIL
32
German admiral : SPEE
33
She sallies forth with fans : RAND
34
Vegetable-oil product : OLEO
35
Obstruct : CLOG
36
Williams's conveyance : STREETCAR
40
Not windward : ALEE
42
Jane Fonda's Oscar-winning role : BREE
45
Rebuttal : ANSWER
46
Pawn : PLEDGE
48
Exonerate : CLEAR
49
Type of statesman : ELDER
50
___ prosequi : NOLLE
51
Mini or maxi : STYLE
52
Gaelic : ERSE
53
Gee and haw control : REIN
54
Writer Claude : ANET
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Wraparound garment : TOGA
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Jule ___, British actor : EGE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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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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