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Jeanette K. Brill
Jeanette K. Brill

New York Times, Tuesday, July 14, 1981

45-Across : Stewart's "Touch Not ___"

Author:
Jeanette K. Brill
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Jeanette K. Brill has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,571
Across
1
"Othello" character : IAGO
5
Sounds of steeds on streets : CLOPS
10
Espadrille, e.g. : SHOE
14
Word with cover or knot : SLIP
15
Incurred, as debts : RANUP
16
Molten rock : LAVA
17
Personal household effects : LARESANDPENATES
20
Doorway : ENTRANCE
21
Hash house : EATERY
22
Fit to ___ : ATEE
23
For two, in music : ADUE
24
Beautiful park in Vienna : PRATER
27
Ready for publication : EDIT
28
"___ Rosenkavalier" : DER
31
Mysterious : EERIE
32
Chemical compound : ENOL
33
His "Dafne" is the first known opera : PERI
34
Exemplars of firm friendship : DAMONANDPYTHIAS
37
An Indian Ocean gulf : ADEN
38
Tense : TAUT
39
Precipitancy : HASTE
40
Headed : LED
41
Suffix with major : ETTE
42
Dolly from Tennessee : PARTON
43
Author Eliav : ARIE
44
Anklebones : TALI
45
Stewart's "Touch Not ___" : THECAT
48
"The ___ Road," 1928 song : LONESOME
52
Abandoned twins nursed by a wolf : ROMULUSANDREMUS
54
What North and South Dakota do : ABUT
55
Alighieri : DANTE
56
Word with Far or Middle : EAST
57
Put a question on the table : POSE
58
Home of a biblical witch : ENDOR
59
Dagger of old : SNEE
Down
1
Man, for one : ISLE
2
Shepard of space-traveling fame : ALAN
3
Encircled : GIRT
4
Military maneuver : OPERATION
5
Construction worker : CRANER
6
Piercing weapon : LANCE
7
Wave on la mer : ONDE
8
Young seal : PUP
9
Amain : SPEEDILY
10
Roof material : SLATE
11
Heywood Broun's "Pieces of ___" : HATE
12
Above : OVER
13
"___ Riders" : EASY
18
Lustrous fabric : SATEEN
19
Rel. to navigation at sea : NAUT
23
Embrace, as a policy : ADOPT
24
Bicycle part : PEDAL
25
English novelist: 1814-84 : READE
26
___ forces : ARMED
27
Provide, as with talents : ENDUE
28
Jefferson was one : DEIST
29
Inspiration for Pindar : ERATO
30
Ascended : RISEN
32
Related on the mother's side : ENATE
33
Sect opposed to the Sadducees : PHARISEES
35
Something to strike : ATTITUDE
36
Old German coin : THALER
41
Of an epoch : ERAL
42
Cater basely to : PANDER
43
Opposite of obtuse : ACUTE
44
Lone Ranger's sidekick : TONTO
45
Hazard for Hale Irwin : TRAP
46
Person called a "swagman" in Australia : HOBO
47
Certain ratites : EMUS
48
"Sweet ___ of liberty ... " : LAND
49
Sultanate the size of Kansas : OMAN
50
Meditate : MUSE
51
Medieval Italian fortress : ESTE
53
Francisco, e.g. : SAN

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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