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Grace Fabbroni
Grace Fabbroni

New York Times, Monday, March 13, 1978

31-Across : Officer's preretirement promotion

Author:
Grace Fabbroni
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Grace Fabbroni has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,439
Across
1
"Shucks!," to a poet : ALAS
5
Newspaper exclusive : SCOOP
10
Breathe laboriously : GASP
14
Harum-scarum : RASH
15
Public sentiment : PULSE
16
Mechanical repetition : ROTE
17
Belgrade bigwig : TITO
18
Speechify : ORATE
19
Very displeased : IRED
20
Advice to an insomnious astronaut : COUNTEVERYSTAR
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Deprivation : LOSS
24
Texas shrine : ALAMO
25
Jets' QB : TODD
27
With artful shyness : COYLY
30
Bishop of Rome : POPE
31
Officer's preretirement promotion : BREVET
33
Word with spring or season : OFF
36
Bridegroom's boast : IMARRIEDANANGEL
39
Thicken : GEL
40
Historical records : ANNALS
41
Zone : AREA
42
Applejack base : CIDER
43
Opposite of dele : STET
44
Eyes flirtatiously : OGLES
47
Bangkok native : THAI
49
Would-be space traveler's plea : FLYMETOTHEMOON
55
Golf cry : FORE
56
Love affair, in Paris : AMOUR
57
Armstrong : NEIL
59
Uniform : EVEN
60
Word with Monte or San : CARLO
61
Pisa's stream : ARNO
62
Musical pause : REST
63
Cornered : TREED
64
Vientiane is its capital : LAOS
Down
1
Esthete's interest : ART
2
Secular : LAIC
3
Relative of in re : ASTO
4
Road border : SHOULDER
5
Locates : SPOTS
6
Parish priests, in France : CURES
7
King of Norway : OLAV
8
Bone: Prefix : OSTE
9
Equal : PEER
10
Gruesome : GRISLY
11
Corporeal channel : AORTA
12
Sauna feature : STEAM
13
Character in "Don Quixote" : PEDRO
21
Where Cain went after killing Abel : NOD
22
Historic city on Black Sea : YALTA
25
Volume : TOME
26
Geyserite : OPAL
27
Coniferous tree : CEDAR
28
Ellipse : OVAL
29
Cravings : YENS
30
Kind of Latin : PIG
31
Tie : BIND
32
Descartes : RENE
33
Blunderbore, e.g. : OGRE
34
Parts of yards : FEET
35
Neighbor of Ga. : FLA
37
Support partner's suit : RAISE
38
Part of G.N.P. : NATIONAL
42
Unite firmly : CEMENT
43
Ervin of N.C. : SAM
44
Bid : OFFER
45
Gauntlet : GLOVE
46
Cousins of harps : LYRES
47
Most northerly region : THULE
48
Salome danced for him : HEROD
50
Asset of a P.R. man : TACT
51
Mosque of ___, in Jerusalem : OMAR
52
Raced : TORE
53
"___ perfumed sea": Poe : OERA
54
Tad, in Taxco : NINO
58
Part of L.A.P.D. : LOS

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

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