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Jones
Jones

New York Times, Monday, June 28, 1982

43-Across : Frets with friction

Author:
Jones
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Jones has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,920
Across
1
Not up : ABED
5
Sight at Oxford : SPIRE
10
Pulitzer Prize historian: 1934 : AGAR
14
Cartoonist Peter : ARNO
15
Princeton mascot : TIGER
16
Wine region in Calif. : NAPA
17
Wilson novel: 1915 : RUGGLESOFREDGAP
20
In name only : TITULAR
21
Boundary between Europe and Asia : URALS
22
Wang Lung's wife : OLAN
23
Last royal governor of Mass. : GAGE
25
Lombard : CAROLE
28
Like some losers : SORE
29
Life: Comb. form : BIO
32
Border on : ABUT
33
Singer Jones : ALLAN
34
Neither Rep. or Dem. : IND
35
Doyle's "The ___": 1891 : REDHEADEDLEAGUE
39
Singer's "___ Love": 1979 : OLD
40
Valerie Harper role : RHODA
41
Tolerable : SOSO
42
Napoleon's loyal marshal : NEY
43
Frets with friction : RUBS
44
Get the goose ready : FATTEN
46
Arrived : CAME
47
"If I ___ Girl Like You," 1925 song : HADA
48
Buffalo : BISON
51
Stays a spell : TARRIES
54
First Sherlock Holmes book: 1887 : ASTUDYINSCARLET
58
Musical mark : SLUR
59
Sharp : ACUTE
60
Prefix with market : EURO
61
Reeve role : KENT
62
Apportions : METES
63
Blinds part : SLAT
Down
1
It rises in the Bernese Alps : AAR
2
Very dry, as champagne : BRUT
3
Frosh subj. : ENGI
4
Architectural ornament : DOGTOOTH
5
Pillars used as monuments : STELAE
6
Guide at the Leaning Tower : PISAN
7
Harpsichordist Kipnis : IGOR
8
Whistler on a gridiron : REF
9
Commit a peccadillo : ERR
10
Conductor Kostelanetz : ANDRE
11
Carried away : GAGA
12
"Oh, what ___ was Mary" : APAL
13
Séance sounds : RAPS
18
Calm : LULL
19
Field of literary fame : EUGENE
23
Yitzhak's predecessor : GOLDA
24
Turkestan sea : ARAL
25
Leslie of films : CARON
26
White poplar : ABELE
27
Red or reddish : RUDDY
28
Luge and pung : SLEDS
29
Archie Bunker, for one : BIGOT
30
Operating : INUSE
31
Ancient theater-in-the-round : ODEON
33
Shade of brown : ADOBE
36
Commission : ERRAND
37
Audibly active : AHUM
38
Famous dance team : ASTAIRES
44
Works by Feydeau : FARCES
45
Spanish port : ADRA
46
Woo : COURT
47
Waste maker : HASTE
48
Sit in the sunshine : BASK
49
Offshore sight : ISLE
50
Overwhelm : STUN
51
Letter-shaped fastener : TNUT
52
Month after Ab : ELUL
53
Antitoxins : SERA
55
"I ___ what I ... ": Popeye : YAM
56
Word with cap or cream : ICE
57
Wee bairn : TOT

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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