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Grace Fabbroni
Grace Fabbroni

New York Times, Monday, March 10, 1980

4-Across : Titles in Eastern churches

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: 283 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Grace Fabbroni has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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G
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A
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L
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A
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B
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B
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A
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S
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S
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P
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O
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T
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A
M
O
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S
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P
E
A
L
E
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I
O
N
A
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S
E
C
U
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R
I
T
Y
B
L
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A
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K
E
T
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P
R
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N
C
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S
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R
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Y
S
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R
A
C
Y
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M
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I
M
I
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S
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T
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R
I
F
E
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P
A
C
A
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T
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W
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O
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P
E
A
S
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P
I
N
E
D
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R
I
P
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U
N
D
E
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R
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C
O
V
E
R
A
38
G
E
N
T
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M
O
A
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E
L
I
O
T
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L
A
C
E
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E
R
R
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V
A
S
T
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A
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B
A
T
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D
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A
I
D
E
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O
R
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S
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S
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P
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O
C
T
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G
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O
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N
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S
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T
H
R
O
W
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I
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N
T
H
E
T
O
W
E
L
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N
O
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N
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D
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R
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R
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W
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T
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S
S
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A
L
A
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S
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,080
Across
1
"My ___ Sal" : GAL
4
Titles in Eastern churches : ABBAS
9
"Out, damned ___!" : SPOT
13
Book of the Bible : AMOS
15
American portrait painter : PEALE
16
Island in the Hebrides : IONA
17
Crutch of a sort : SECURITYBLANKET
20
Ida in a G. & S. operetta : PRINCESS
21
Beams of light : RAYS
22
Risqué : RACY
23
Puccini heroine : MIMI
25
Conflict : STRIFE
28
South American rodent : PACA
29
Square root of four : TWO
32
Legumes : PEAS
33
Languished : PINED
34
Tear or Torn : RIP
35
James Bond, e.g. : UNDERCOVERAGENT
39
Extinct bird of New Zealand : MOA
40
Author of "The Cocktail Party" : ELIOT
41
Flimsy fabric : LACE
42
Slip a cog : ERR
43
Like the cosmos : VAST
44
Lessened : ABATED
46
Subordinate : AIDE
47
Mine deposits : ORES
48
Graf ___ : SPEE
50
Stop signs : OCTAGONS
54
Give up : THROWINTHETOWEL
57
Hands-up time : NOON
58
More desperate : DIRER
59
"Those ___ the days" : WERE
60
Hardy heroine : TESS
61
Wing-shaped : ALARY
62
Turf : SOD
Down
1
Pant : GASP
2
U.S. citizen : AMER
3
Sites : LOCI
4
Each : APIECE
5
First name in flag making : BETSY
6
Buzzards and Hudson : BAYS
7
Vestment : ALB
8
Salt, in Paris : SEL
9
Peninsula in a Begin-Sadat treaty : SINAI
10
Slow : POKY
11
There are two in 11 : ONES
12
Use a shuttle : TAT
14
Start of something new : SUNRISE
18
Can. military arm : RCAF
19
Fleet of warships : ARMADA
23
Painter of "Girl with a Parrot" : MANET
24
Bakery worker : ICER
25
Foam : SPUME
26
Luciano Pavarotti, e.g. : TENOR
27
Detection device : RADAR
28
Swivel : PIVOT
29
Delight : TREAT
30
Flinch : WINCE
31
Chose : OPTED
33
Self-assurance : POISE
36
Evaluate : REVIEW
37
Garbed : CLAD
38
Pulitzer Prize author of "In This Our Life" : GLASGOW
44
Channel of communication : ARTERY
45
"___ the Clock" : BEAT
46
Untold ages : AEONS
47
Earthy color : OCHER
48
Word with tree or horn : SHOE
49
Golf instructors : PROS
50
Other, in Toledo : OTRA
51
Is in the red : OWES
52
He took a bow during a fire : NERO
53
Coaster : SLED
54
Explosive : TNT
55
Highest peak in Crete : IDA
56
Nothing : NIL

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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