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Grace Fabbroni
Grace Fabbroni

New York Times, Thursday, November 9, 1978

62-Across : Mollycoddle

Author:
Grace Fabbroni
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Grace Fabbroni has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,593
Across
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Type of rug : SHAG
5
Clayey deposit : LOESS
10
Tuftlike mass : FLOC
14
"___-Bungay," Wells novel : TONO
15
Sister of Thalia : ERATO
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Composer of "Le Roi d'Ys" : LALO
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Singer's voice : ALTO
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Wakefield resident : VICAR
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Slight : OMIT
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Oscar winner: 1969 : MIDNIGHTCOWBOY
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___ sequitur : NON
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Compass point : ENE
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Withdraws formally : SECEDES
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Plodded : TRUDGED
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Swears : AVOWS
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Flivver five : TIRES
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Roman household god : LAR
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Father of Romulus and Remus : MARS
38
Pivotal : POLAR
39
"I ___ Men," song from "Kiss Me, Kate" : HATE
40
Hoosier humorist : ADE
41
Witch's transportation : BROOM
42
Dermal openings : PORES
43
Coarse U.S. herb : REDWEED
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Equivocates : PALTERS
47
Uffizi marvels : ART
48
Joe College's call : RAH
49
Koestler novel: 1941 : DARKNESSATNOON
57
French brain wave : IDEE
58
Tearful queen : NIOBE
59
Shoshones : UTES
61
Average : MEAN
62
Mollycoddle : SPOIL
63
Offbeat sit-com : SOAP
64
Odds' companion : ENDS
65
Kefauver : ESTES
66
Very slippery : EELY
Down
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Depot: Abbr. : STA
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Celeste of films : HOLM
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Oppositionist : ANTI
4
Glad tidings : GOODNEWS
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Famed Met conductor : LEVINE
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Source: Abbr. : ORIG
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Apiece : EACH
8
Suffix with photo or rheo : STAT
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Merlin, e.g. : SORCERER
10
Gushed forth : FLOWED
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English essayist : LAMB
12
Hodgepodge : OLIO
13
Former French president : COTY
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Assents silently : NODS
22
Burden of proof : ONUS
25
Philippine island : SAMAR
26
Shirk : EVADE
27
Prepared McIntoshes for baking : CORED
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Tolerated : STOOD
29
Bindlestiff : TRAMP
30
Dazzling light : GLARE
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Trencherman : EATER
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Sheath or shift : DRESS
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Worldwide labor org. : ILO
38
Make-believe : PRETENSE
39
Where tender plants get a chance : HOTHOUSE
41
City affording an Alpine vista : BERN
42
Contrive : PLAN
44
Stirs up : WAKENS
46
Russian cooperatives : ARTELS
49
Kind of novel : DIME
50
Mideast gulf : ADEN
51
"Alive" author : READ
52
Samples : SIPS
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It might soil Santa : SOOT
54
Anne Nichols hero : ABIE
55
Siouan Indian : OTOE
56
Actress from Ky. : NEAL
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He "came in from the cold" : SPY

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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