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Ann Jenkins
Ann Jenkins

New York Times, Thursday, April 28, 1977

25-Across : V.I.P. on the Hill

Author:
Ann Jenkins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { B J K Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 257 (avg 1.34)
Open Squares: 86, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 2, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Ann Jenkins has 23 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,120
Across
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High jinks : STUNTS
7
Give the third degree : HARASS
13
Easter creation : CHAPEAU
14
Short-order dishes : OMELETS
16
Write back : RESPOND
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One-man show, usually : RECITAL
18
Gone, as goodies : EATEN
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Subject for Billy Graham : SIN
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Episperm : TESTA
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Lacking moisture : ARID
23
Staff man : AIDE
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Schnauzer's feature : SNOUT
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V.I.P. on the Hill : SEN
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Lithe; slender : SVELTE
28
Reservation dweller in Colorado : UTE
29
One way to get a word in : EDGEWISE
31
Used a jack : LIFTED
34
Shoe form : LAST
35
Short-billed bird : SORA
36
Gamester's haunt : CASINO
39
Behaved or exiled : DEPORTED
43
Title Columbus held: Abbr. : ADM
44
Cynosure for millions : SCREEN
46
Amusing recountings : ANA
47
Rex and Oliver : REEDS
50
Foxx : REDD
51
Men in a monastery : FRAS
52
Give to each : ALLOT
53
Slithery creature : EEL
54
Seaver delivery : PITCH
55
Cultivated land : TILLAGE
57
Render sincere flattery : IMITATE
59
Sniffed at : SNEERED
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Good-___ (amiable) : NATURED
61
Some ill-fated Fords : EDSELS
62
Felt one's way : GROPED
Down
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Clipped : SHEARED
2
Oenologist's activity : TASTING
3
Hiked, as salaries : UPPED
4
Glowing ad : NEON
5
Sun-baked : TAN
6
Frothiest : SUDSIEST
7
Stinger : HORNET
8
Soul, to an abbé : AME
9
Certain parallelograms: Abbr. : RECTS
10
Outlander : ALIEN
11
Exhibits : SETSOUT
12
Congressional creation : STATUTE
13
Area around a goalie : CREASE
15
Scheduled : SLATED
20
Futile : IDLE
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Dispatch boats : AVISOS
26
The Ugly Duckling : SWAN
27
Decamped for romance : ELOPED
30
Wallach : ELI
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Like some wills : IRON
33
Removed : FAR
35
Young tree : SEEDLING
36
Units for brilliants : CARATS
37
Harmonizers' girl : ADELINE
38
Scented : SMELLED
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Suffer, in Angus : DREE
40
Steak ___ : TARTARE
41
Made into a 12 Down : ENACTED
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Sped : DASHED
45
Words to live by : CREEDS
48
Noted Hawaiians or Kansans : DOLES
49
Rubberneck : STARE
51
Supply; equip : FITUP
54
Spaniard's whistle : PITO
56
Set : GEL
58
Spoil : MAR

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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