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Jean Reed
Jean Reed

New York Times, Thursday, July 25, 1974

1-Across : Part of Excalibur

Author:
Jean Reed
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 288 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 14, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Jean Reed has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,112
Across
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Part of Excalibur : HAFT
5
Kind of singing : SCAT
9
Swagger : STRUT
14
"I cannot tell ___" : ALIE
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Voice : ALTO
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"___ it to you?" : WHATS
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College pad : DORM
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Pronoun : YOUR
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Blood carrier : AORTA
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Vigorous vegetable : JUMPINGBEAN
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Imitation: suffix : EEN
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Slaughter of baseball : ENOS
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Et ___ : CETERA
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Lively : PEART
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Peter, to pumpkin : EATER
32
German pronoun : ICH
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"___ we eat?" : WHENDO
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Regarding : ASTO
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" ... sailing over ___" : THEBOUNDINGMAIN
43
Kind of plate or cooking : HOME
44
Fruit tool : STONER
45
From ___ Z : ATO
46
" ... country ___ thee" : TISOF
48
Faux pas : ERROR
50
Top fruit : BANANA
53
Behold!: Lat. : ECCE
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"___ man answers" : IFA
56
Green drink : GRASSHOPPER
62
Evel, to motorcycle : RIDER
64
Norse god : LOKI
65
Edison name : ALVA
66
Kingdom of Minos : CRETE
67
Kind of school: Abbr. : ELEM
68
Noticed : SEEN
69
"___ how!" : HERES
70
Hard or apple : CORE
71
Acidulous : TART
Down
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Pilgrimage : HADJ
2
Baseball brother : ALOU
3
Steadfast : FIRM
4
Moderate : TEMPER
5
Refuse : SAYNO
6
Shoes or dances : CLOGS
7
"Three men in ___" : ATUB
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Ripped : TORE
9
River of song : SWANEE
10
Even if, without ugh : THO
11
Street show : RAREE
12
Complete : UTTER
13
Blue Nile source : TSANA
21
Break ___ (split) : INTWO
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Part of a play : ACTONE
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Vehicle : TRAM
27
Meat of the matter : PITH
28
Repeat : ECHO
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Pause filler : AHEM
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___ the line : ENDOF
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Tennis term : ADIN
34
Cavalryman of Europe : HUSSAR
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Inner: Prefix : ENTO
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River in Germany : SAAR
38
Marshal of Europe : TITO
39
Words before about : ONOR
41
Greek letter : BETA
42
El ___, painter : GRECO
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French painter : INGRES
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Meal : REPAST
50
Switch : BIRCH
51
Flaming : AFIRE
52
Consumer's advocate : NADER
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Gravel ridge : ESKER
54
Clock voice : CHIME
57
Waugh : ALEC
58
Alone : SOLO
59
Cop a ___ : PLEA
60
Always : EVER
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Carry on : RANT
63
French season : ETE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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