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Jean Reed
Jean Reed

New York Times, Friday, July 18, 1975

58-Across : Best

Author:
Jean Reed
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J X Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Jean Reed has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,470
Across
1
Egyptian god : PTAH
5
Join the claque : CLAP
9
Stone of ___ : SCONE
14
Greek vowel : IOTA
15
"What ___ wants ... " : LOLA
16
Italian city : PADUA
17
African pest : TSETSEFLY
19
Have, in France : AVOIR
20
"Practical cats" poet : TSELIOT
21
Casual clothes : TSHIRTS
23
Sea bird : ERN
24
Greet : HAIL
25
Lawyers: Abbr. : ATTS
28
Meat by-product : SUET
30
Work units : ERGS
34
No. 2 woods : BRASSIES
37
Brought to ruin : UNDONE
39
Jazz form : BOP
40
Drawing-board ruler : TSQUARE
42
Pig : SOW
43
"Thanks ___ much" : EVERSO
45
Never : ATNOTIME
47
Dry : SERE
48
High wind : GALE
50
Clarinet or sax : REED
51
School event : PROM
53
Old French coin : SOU
55
Russian royal figure : TSARINA
58
Best : OPTIMAL
62
"Iphigenia in ___" : AULIS
63
Blue Nile source : LAKETSANA
65
Hip wear of dry era : FLASK
66
Latin pronoun : ILLE
67
Cookout glove : MITT
68
Justice in Dred Scott case : TANEY
69
Zounds! : EGAD
70
Kimono part : SASH
Down
1
English statesman : PITT
2
Salad action : TOSS
3
To ___ (exactly) : ATEE
4
Uncovered : HATLESS
5
Jones of baseball : CLEON
6
Place for hay : LOFT
7
Every bit : ALL
8
___ piper : PAYTHE
9
Algerian trooper : SPAHI
10
Split hairs : CAVILED
11
Repute : ODOR
12
Paris night : NUIT
13
Units of corn : EARS
18
Title : SIR
22
Planet : SATURN
25
French clerics : ABBES
26
Buried treasure : TROVE
27
Grow gradually thin : TAPER
28
"Godfather II," e.g.: Abbr. : SEQ
29
Customary : USUAL
31
Miss O'Grady : ROSIE
32
Troll : GNOME
33
Did needlework : SEWED
35
City ways: Abbr. : STS
36
Equiangular figure : ISOGON
38
Prefix for phyte : NEO
41
Broke fast : ATE
44
Musical refresher : REPRISE
46
Platitudes : TRUISMS
49
Charlotte ___ : AMALIE
52
Hazardous : RISKY
53
Hare's forte : SPEED
54
Baseball name : OTT
55
William H. or Robert : TAFT
56
Russian river : SULA
57
Alda or Arkin : ALAN
58
State: Abbr. : OKLA
59
Mother of Hermes : MAIA
60
Organized insects : ANTS
61
Strip of wood : LATH
64
Math branch: Abbr. : ALG

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

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