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Janis Heller
Janis Heller

New York Times, Monday, April 30, 1984

53-Across : August, in Arles

Author:
Janis Heller
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Janis Heller has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,592
Across
1
Forbidden : TABU
5
Ionian island : CORFU
10
Food fish : SHAD
14
___ Bator : ULAN
15
Music hall : ODEON
16
Sharpen : HONE
17
Prepares hides : TANS
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Subscribe again : RENEW
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Repetition : ROTE
20
Impure : UNCHASTE
22
In the same place, to Pompey : IBIDEM
24
Bird class : AVES
25
Composer Jerome : KERN
26
Dislodged turf on a fairway : DIVOT
28
Improbable : UNLIKELY
32
Moisten : BEDEW
33
Wear away : ERODE
34
Sticky stuff : GOO
35
Legal hold : LIEN
36
Oneness : UNITY
37
Indic language : URDU
38
___ Khan : AGA
39
S.A. mountains : ANDES
40
Scornful expression : SNEER
41
Illegal : UNLAWFUL
43
Cults : SECTS
44
Harvest : REAP
45
Prefix with dollar : EURO
46
Emphasis : STRESS
49
Distasteful : UNSAVORY
53
August, in Arles : AOUT
54
___ cotta : TERRA
56
Greek letters : ETAS
57
Aisle : LANE
58
Incite : EGGON
59
Ascend : RISE
60
Fruit drinks : ADES
61
Carols : NOELS
62
Blemish : SCAR
Down
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Odile's garb : TUTU
2
Late-show host Thicke : ALAN
3
Judge's bench : BANC
4
Bearded : UNSHAVEN
5
Tight undergarment : CORSET
6
"Golden Boy" playwright : ODETS
7
Descartes : RENE
8
Enemy : FOE
9
Awkward : UNWIELDY
10
Diminish : SHRINK
11
Car part : HOOD
12
Stake at cards : ANTE
13
Consider : DEEM
21
Confess : AVOW
23
Mold-ripened cheese : BRIE
25
Grannies, e.g. : KNOTS
26
Vouchsafe : DEIGN
27
Exemplar : IDEAL
28
Archangel : URIEL
29
Wading bird : EGRET
30
Mineral deposits : LODES
31
Possessive pronoun : YOUR
32
Blue, to Bismarck : BLAU
33
Keep one's ___ (do one's share) : ENDUP
36
Open : UNFASTEN
37
Bares : UNCOVERS
39
Inspires : AWES
40
Blood fluids : SERA
42
Mountain ridges : ARETES
43
Black-eyed and lazy followers : SUSANS
45
Register : ENROL
46
Hacienda room : SALA
47
Tailless amphibian : TOAD
48
Germanic letter : RUNE
49
Exhort : URGE
50
Auricular : OTIC
51
Tabula ___ : RASA
52
Belgian river : YSER
55
Self : EGO

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

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