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Jeanette K. Brill
Jeanette K. Brill

New York Times, Tuesday, February 13, 1979

5-Across : Having finesse

Author:
Jeanette K. Brill
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J K Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 254 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Jeanette K. Brill has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,689
Across
1
Food fish : SHAD
5
Having finesse : DEFT
9
Early shepherd : ABEL
13
Parrot fish : LORO
14
City NNE of Nagasaki : OMURA
16
Seaport of the 49th State : NOME
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Opp. of real : IMAG
18
Like jelly : GELATINOUS
20
Trivial verse : DOGGEREL
22
Birthplace of H. C. Andersen : ODENSE
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Sharif : OMAR
24
Entreat : PLEAD
25
Not forming an angle : AGONIC
28
Roman sun god : SOL
29
Tennis strokes : LOBS
32
Slum dwellings : TENEMENTS
34
Dem. opposition : GOP
35
Pay attention : HEED
36
Installs in office : SEATS
38
Taj Mahal's site : AGRA
39
Explorer Johnson : OSA
40
Given an incorrect name : MISCALLED
42
___ precedent : SETA
44
Japanese money : SEN
45
Mickey of the Yankees : RIVERS
46
Sphere of action : ARENA
48
Victor Borge, e.g. : DANE
49
Tempt : ENTICE
51
Canine of a sort : DOGTOOTH
55
Dampening : MOISTENING
57
See 49 Across : LURE
58
"Woe ___!" : ISME
59
Actress Taylor : RENEE
60
On the briny : ASEA
61
Word with ager : TEEN
62
Do a garden job : WEED
63
Part of R & R : REST
Down
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Skittered : SLID
2
___ sapiens : HOMO
3
"To ___ and a bone ... " : ARAG
4
"I'll be ___!" : DOGGONED
5
Rabbit-chasing events : DOGRACES
6
Title in Ankara : EMEER
7
Sated : FULL
8
Refrain syllable : TRA
9
Toughen, as steel : ANNEAL
10
Do pointless work : BOONDOGGLE
11
Ratites of Australia : EMUS
12
___-majesté : LESE
15
Coral island : ATOLL
19
Chemical ending : IDE
21
"Terrible ones" of the O.T. : EMIM
24
Mails : POSTS
25
One of the Three Musketeers : ATHOS
26
Honkers : GEESE
27
Singly : ONEATATIME
28
Blot : STAIN
30
Shipworm : BORER
31
Miners' nails : SPADS
33
Scene of Hercules' first labor : NEMEA
37
Lean : SCRAGGED
38
Socketlike : ALVEOLAR
41
"It ___ Necessarily So" : AINT
43
Gone up : ARISEN
44
Scoff : SNEER
47
External: Comb. form : ECT
48
Beneficiary : DONEE
49
Eject : EMIT
50
Win by a ___ : NOSE
51
Have a meal out : DINE
52
York's river : OUSE
53
Very, in Vichy : TRES
54
Fervor : HEAT
56
___ Guinea : NEW

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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