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Lois Sidway
Lois Sidway

New York Times, Wednesday, December 16, 1987

52-Across : Mrs. Humphrey

Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Lois Sidway has 67 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 18 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,917
Across
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Irritable : EDGY
5
Embrace : CLASP
10
Glove for Hernandez : MITT
14
Actress Garr : TERI
15
Right-hand page : RECTO
16
Jerusalem's Mosque of ___ : OMAR
17
Copperfield adversary : HEEP
18
Alcohol base : ETHYL
19
Baylor is here : WACO
20
Shelley offering : ODE
21
Crop pest of Australia : EMU
22
Ebullient : YEASTY
24
TV's Kate or Allie, e.g. : SINGLEPARENT
28
"Bali ___" : HAI
29
Famed cartoonist : NAST
30
None preceder : BAR
33
Apt anagram for abodes : ADOBES
36
Morse "E" : DIT
37
Armbone : ULNA
38
James Cain novel : DOUBLEINDEMNITY
41
___-daisy : UPSY
42
Words of comparison : ASA
43
Diana and Betsy : ROSSES
44
Spud bud : EYE
45
His, to Henri : ALUI
46
Asian winter festival : TET
47
Versatile player like Sammy Baugh : TRIPLETHREAT
52
Mrs. Humphrey : MURIEL
55
A.M.A. members : DRS
56
River, to Rivera : RIO
57
On : ATOP
58
Moslem decree : IRADE
61
Bologna "bread" : LIRA
62
Netman Wilander : MATS
63
Ghoulish : EERIE
64
Picnic hamperers : ANTS
65
Nautical greeting : AHOY
66
Played the mole : SPIED
67
Start of a Gershwin song : IGOT
Down
1
Characteristic beliefs : ETHOS
2
"___ Do," 1926 Hirsch-Rose song : DEEDI
3
Nursery of sorts : GREENHOUSE
4
Canine complaint : YIP
5
___ de fraise : CREME
6
Ease : LETUP
7
Stuttgart sigh : ACH
8
Pig's digs : STY
9
Suit material : POLYESTER
10
"Never Cry Wolf" author : MOWAT
11
"___ restless as a willow ... " : IMAS
12
Diplomacy : TACT
13
One-horse-too-many town : TROY
21
Eero's father : ELIEL
23
Adjective-forming suffix : ENT
25
Talkative : GABBY
26
Tooth ___ (fiercely) : ANDNAIL
27
Attack on the fridge : RAID
30
Gruelingly intense : BLISTERING
31
Part of A.M. : ANTE
32
Beams : RAYS
33
How Luciano and Plácido might sing : ADUE
34
Idiotic : DOPY
35
Crinoids : SEALILIES
37
Famed racing driver : UNSER
39
"The jig ___!" : ISUP
40
Some papal escapees : MOTHS
45
Helping verb : ARE
47
Somewhat smashed : TIPSY
48
An amusing Murphy : EDDIE
49
Cornered : TREED
50
___-surface missile : AIRTO
51
Skoal, e.g. : TOAST
52
Role for Liv Ullmann : MAMA
53
Bryce Canyon is here : UTAH
54
Pictorial section, for short : ROTO
59
G.O.P. member : REP
60
Jackie's second husband : ARI
61
Chou En-___ : LAI

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 1 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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