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Jack L. Steinhardt
Jack L. Steinhardt

New York Times, Thursday, December 29, 1977

56-Across : Featherbrained

Author:
Jack L. Steinhardt
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.34, Missing: { H J Q V W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 253 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 86, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Jack L. Steinhardt has 39 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,365
Across
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Coating for apples : CARAMEL
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U.S. observatory : PALOMAR
15
Human being or nudist : ADAMITE
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Stir, in Sicilia : AGITARE
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Enjoyed the highways : MOTORED
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Achromatic : NEUTRAL
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Five geological periods : ERAS
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Marine detector : SONAR
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"Ma—He's Making Eyes ___" : ATME
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Tennis term : LET
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Inland duty on commodities: Abbr. : FET
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Singer Janis : IAN
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Place to caulk : SEAM
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Tender : OFFER
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State of annoyance : SNIT
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Word with mate or work : TEAM
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Bands that stretch across the country : ELASTICS
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Deviation : ABERRANCE
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Jersey bay : BARNEGAT
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___ Carlo Menotti : GIAN
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"How now! ___?": Hamlet : ARAT
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Flavorsome herb : ANISE
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Swimmer Spitz : MARK
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Part of R.S.V.P. : SIL
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Agnes or Bernadette: Abbr. : STE
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Small wooden peg : TEE
51
Powder base : TALC
53
Sanctums : LAIRS
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Fret : FUME
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Featherbrained : IDIOTIC
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Banking mechanism for a pilot : AILERON
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"Beware the man of ___": D'Israeli : ONEBOOK
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Surrounding influence : CLIMATE
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Ron and family : NESSENS
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Franco Harris, e.g. : STEELER
Down
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Pack seen in the Sahara : CAMELS
2
Renee of the silents : ADOREE
3
Imitative knocking sound : RATATAT
4
Otis of baseball fame : AMOS
5
"Bei ___ Bist du Schön," 1937 song : MIR
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Somme summers : ETES
7
Was the first batter : LEDOFF
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Slender smoke : PANATELA
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Dyeing apparatus : AGER
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The Blackbirds of N.Y.C. : LIU
11
Norwegian town : OTTA
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It's wet even when very dry : MARTINI
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Semitic language : ARAMAIC
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Becomes mollified : RELENTS
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Wife of Amenhotep IV : NEFERTITI
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Intended : MEANT
28
Series termination : OMEGA
29
Cowboy's milieu : RANGE
30
Type of heat : STEAM
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Vigoda : ABE
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High-school subj. : SCI
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Searches thoroughly : RANSACKS
37
Stronghold : BASTION
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She helped Theseus to escape : ARIADNE
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Calls to arms : RALLIES
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White key on a piano : NATURAL
44
Glacial blocks : SERACS
46
Outside broadcast : REMOTE
47
Not so obtuse : KEENER
52
Short, thickset horses : COBS
53
Beast helped by Androcles : LION
54
Sandy deposit : SILT
55
Woman, in lawyers' lingo : FEME
57
Word with hold or nail : TOE
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Take a recumbent position : LIE

Answer summary:
3 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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