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Jay Spry
Jay Spry

New York Times, Monday, July 29, 1974

31-Across : Mailbox listing for the Little Women

Author:
Jay Spry
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Jay Spry has 16 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,116
Across
1
Den : LAIR
5
Deaf as ___ : APOST
10
Morose : GLUM
14
Vain : IDLE
15
Knights of ___ : MALTA
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Unadorned : BARE
17
Dominant trend : MAINSTREAM
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Stage routine : SKIT
20
Marbles : AGATES
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Irritated state : SNIT
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Native of: Suffix : ESE
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Passover meal : SEDER
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Kind of hanger : CLIFF
27
Malign : DEFAME
31
Mailbox listing for the Little Women : MARCH
34
Kind of bride or bonnet : WAR
37
Precise : NICE
38
"Damn Yankees" temptress : LOLA
39
Passageway of a sort : ALIMENTARYCANAL
44
Furnished : GAVE
45
Stingy : NEAR
46
N.F.L. scores : TDS
47
"We have met the ___, and ... " : ENEMY
49
Western outlaw : BADMAN
51
Place for broncs : RODEO
53
Spitefulness : VENOM
57
Rudiments : ABC
59
Wit : SALT
61
Blank space : LACUNA
62
Courage : GRIT
64
Jellyfish : SEANETTLES
66
Deserve : RATE
67
Stabs : TRIES
68
State: Abbr. : ALAS
69
Pastoral poem : IDYL
70
Flies : SOLOS
71
Use of memory : ROTE
Down
1
Beans : LIMAS
2
Saw : ADAGE
3
Account of tribulations : ILIAD
4
Let : RENTED
5
Quantities: Abbr. : AMTS
6
Average : PAR
7
Cheers : OLES
8
Position : STANCE
9
Ceylonese native : TAMIL
10
Literary initials : GBS
11
Summer-cottage site : LAKEFRONT
12
U.S. novelist : URIS
13
Deal out : METE
18
Unruffled : SERENE
22
Young Cratchit : TIM
26
F.D.R. pet : FALA
28
Fiver : FIN
29
Behave : ACT
30
"It don't ___ thing ... " : MEANA
32
Decked out : CLAD
33
Dutch painter : HALS
34
Conduct : WAGE
35
Arkin : ALAN
36
"Music Man" locale : RIVERCITY
40
Note : MEMO
41
Holzman : RED
42
Tuber : YAM
43
Tie : CRAVAT
48
Scotland et al.: Abbr. : YDS
49
Spanish dance : BOLERO
50
Juno's drink : NECTAR
52
Bridge seats : EASTS
54
No-trick bid : NULLO
55
___ a time : ONEAT
56
Billiard stroke : MASSE
57
Fields: Lat. : AGRI
58
Nail : BRAD
60
Shadow : TAIL
61
Lowlier : LESS
63
___ Aviv : TEL
65
Kind of Gothic : NEO

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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