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Virginia Butler
Virginia Butler

New York Times, Monday, December 19, 1977

29-Across : Protector

Author:
Virginia Butler
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 14, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Virginia Butler has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,355
Across
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"And the Lord shall ___ Egypt": Isa. 19:22 : SMITE
6
It has a Minor but no Major : ASIA
10
Testing area : LAB
13
Miss Pinkham : LYDIA
14
Tear : RENT
15
Starring or cameo : ROLE
16
Contraction in common use : ARENT
17
Items in a military decoration : OAKLEAVES
19
Ear benders in the band : BASSDRUMS
21
Brother's child : NIECE
22
Blooming : ROSY
23
Finally : ATLAST
24
Modern Berber : HAMITE
27
"___ shall have music ... " : SHE
28
City near Rock Island, Ill. : MOLINE
29
Protector : GUARDIAN
34
Novelist-critic Swinnerton : FRANK
35
___ session : JAM
36
Poe's "___ in Paradise" : TOONE
37
A.D. 476-1000 : DARKAGES
39
Platinum-blonde star of yore : HARLOW
40
Styron's "Confessions of ___ Turner" : NAT
41
One of the Marianas : SAIPAN
42
"Tristram ___" : SHANDY
46
Place for a dance : BARN
47
Millionaire : NABOB
48
An order of rank : TOTEMPOLE
53
Formerly : ATONETIME
55
Little Lord Fauntleroy : ERROL
56
Bulls or Bullets : FIVE
57
Cupbearer before Ganymede : HEBE
58
Spanish boys : NINOS
59
Balzac's "___ Fille d'Eve" : UNE
60
Sir Anthony : EDEN
61
Pester : TEASE
Down
1
Thick slice : SLAB
2
Breckinridge : MYRA
3
October 15, e.g. : IDES
4
Items in London supermarkets : TINS
5
"___ merry": Luke 12:19 : EATDRINKANDBE
6
Stir : AROUSE
7
Unpleasant : SEAMY
8
India and indelible : INKS
9
Expanse east of S.C. : ATL
10
"I ___ Parade" : LOVEA
11
Templeton and Guinness : ALECS
12
Plague : BESET
15
Hobo's transit system : RAIL
18
"That's ___" (recent film) : ENTERTAINMENT
20
Surf sound : ROTE
23
Triumphant cry : AHA
24
Rumanian folk dance : HORA
25
Winglike : ALAR
26
Sign of affluence : MINK
27
"Cogito, ergo ___": Descartes : SUM
28
Man-made: Abbr. : MFD
29
Range fuel : GAS
30
Village, African style : DORP
31
City in Kansas : IOLA
32
Shortly : ANON
33
Novel : NEW
35
Black : JET
38
Author Talese : GAY
39
Basset's quarry : HARE
41
Lustrous fabric : SATEEN
42
Awry, to a G.I. : SNAFU
43
___ hand (humbly) : HATIN
44
Upstairs : ABOVE
45
Ninth hour, to a cleric : NONE
46
Frozen dessert : BOMBE
48
Fit to be ___ : TIED
49
___-dieu : PRIE
50
Wine measure, in Trieste : ORNA
51
Lorelei Lee's creator : LOOS
52
Other : ELSE
54
Much-used article : THE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 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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