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Virginia P. Abelson
Virginia P. Abelson

TABLE TALK

New York Times, Sunday, June 16, 1985

5-Across : Gin

Author:
Virginia P. Abelson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 68, Avg Word Len: 5.41, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 555 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 139, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 11
Virginia P. Abelson has 11 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,004
Across
1
A brandy : MARC
5
Gin : TRAP
9
Bill of umpiring fame : KLEM
13
Former governor of Ariz. : CASTRO
19
"Il mio tesoro" is one : ARIA
20
Jabberwocky word : WABE
21
Second Mrs. Chaplin : LITA
22
Elizabeth I's tutor : ASCHAM
23
Bruno Frank play : STORMINATEACUP
26
Stow in a hold : STEEVE
27
Land of King Tupou IV : TONGA
28
William H. Webster's employees : GMEN
29
A cocktail : STINGER
30
Rattler's end : CABOOSE
33
Official with a list : DEAN
34
Having no key : ATONAL
35
Crazy as ___ : ALOON
36
Supports for crow's-nests : MASTS
37
British mil. group : RAF
38
Bearish periods : SAGS
41
Ash ___, a Monroe home : LAWN
42
Weill-Blitzstein song : MACKTHEKNIFE
46
Lady of Sp. : SRA
47
Start of a Shakespearean title : ALLS
48
Medieval chest : ARCA
49
Help : AID
50
Scented : NOSED
52
Clock numeral : III
53
Covering for tanks : ARMORPLATE
57
Mount ___, peak in Israel : CARMEL
58
Consecrate : SANCTIFY
60
Golfer Irwin : HALE
61
Company : SOCIETY
62
Natural fertilizers : GUANOS
63
Calendar abbr. : OCT
64
Author of "The Seven Storey Mountain" : MERTON
65
"A dillar, ___" : ADOLLAR
67
Preminger or Kruger : OTTO
68
Stores or collections : ARSENALS
71
Adorée and Taylor : RENEES
72
Cornmeal dish : SPOONBREAD
74
Set : GEL
75
Likewise : DITTO
76
Eroded : ATE
77
Indian princess : RANI
78
John preceder : DEMI
79
Country in E Afr. : ETH
80
Pie in the sky? : FLYINGSAUCER
85
Home of many Shiites : IRAN
86
Nikita's refusal : NYET
88
Before, to Byron : ERE
89
Islamic month : RABIA
90
"Of Thee ___" : ISING
91
Roadway material : GRAVEL
93
Bates or Paton : ALAN
94
Airline employee : HOSTESS
96
Looks for food : FORAGES
98
Wildebeests : GNUS
99
Franck : CESAR
100
"___ for Benny," 1945 movie : AMEDAL
101
Home of TV's Ewings : SOUTHFORKRANCH
106
Coryza symptom : SNEEZE
107
Shield border : ORLE
108
Broad-topped hill : LOMA
109
Whit : IOTA
110
Flammable material : TINDER
111
Legal paper : DEED
112
World's largest country : USSR
113
Call : TERM
Down
1
Bell and Barker : MAS
2
Expertise : ART
3
Any Venetian canal : RIO
4
Some Paul Revere products : CARTOONS
5
Minn. team : TWINS
6
Antelope's home : RANGE
7
Rhyme scheme : ABAA
8
Hamster, e.g. : PET
9
___ Falls, city in Ore. : KLAMATH
10
Freedom : LICENSE
11
Vingt-___, gambling game : ETUN
12
Cartographer's creation : MAP
13
Discarded : CASTOFF
14
He married a Duke : ASTIN
15
Parts of operas : SCENAS
16
Williams play : THEGLASSMENAGERIE
17
This may cause a hit : RAVE
18
Part of an ephah : OMER
24
Head of the Unification Church : MOON
25
Cast out, in a way : EGEST
29
Sedate : STAID
30
Port on the Strait of Dover : CALAIS
31
Mutism : ALALIA
32
Lawn game : BOWLINGONTHEGREEN
33
Capital of Senegal : DAKAR
34
Man with an army : ARNIE
36
Hatfield haters : MCCOYS
39
Welcome : GREET
40
With morosity : SADLY
42
Boat basins : MARINAS
43
" ... and my bended ___ a pillow": Confucius : ARMFOR
44
Actress Jackson : KATE
45
Made into law : ENACTED
51
Mark Twain's elder brother : ORION
53
"___ Two Cities" : ATALEOF
54
Kind of finish : PHOTO
55
Milk: Comb. form : LACTO
56
___ B. Parker, U.S. jurist : ALTON
57
Privateer : CORSAIR
59
Gem facet : CULET
61
Tranquil : SERENE
64
Gourd used as a musical instrument : MARACA
65
TV's Miss Brooks : ARDEN
66
Zeus, to Zeno : DEITY
67
Doing business : OPEN
69
Auto-racing city : LEMANS
70
Hamlet's companions of arrows : SLINGS
72
Handle, to Hesse : STIEL
73
Orr was one : BRUIN
76
Movies' Dr. Kildare : AYRES
78
Upset : DISTRAIT
81
Something reducing differences : LEVELER
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Bit of wheat : GRANULE
83
Recognized rank : SALUTED
84
Disconcert : ABASH
87
Swapped : TRADED
90
River to the Danube : ISAR
92
Staring : AGAZE
94
Pillars surmounted by busts : HERMS
95
Actor Werner : OSKAR
96
Quick : FAST
97
Arena in Atlanta : OMNI
98
Author Vidal : GORE
99
Cote cries : COOS
101
Turf : SOD
102
Common ailment : FLU
103
Father of Shem, to an Italian : NOE
104
Rockefeller in N.Y.C. : CTR
105
Shack occupant : HAM

Answer summary:
6 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 10 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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