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Maura B. Jacobson
Maura B. Jacobson

New York Times, Friday, August 12, 1977

28-Across : Lawbreaker

Author:
Maura B. Jacobson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has duplicate clues.
Maura B. Jacobson has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,226
Across
1
Of the ear : OTIC
5
Coupon of a sort : SCRIP
10
Words of approximation : ORSO
14
Art cult : DADA
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Unescorted : ALONE
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___ morgana (optical illusion) : FATA
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Higher, in Bonn : OBER
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Lawbreaker : BANKROBBER
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Lawbreakers : RUSTLERS
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Cool drink : JULEP
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Wife of Zeus : HERA
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Ballet garb : TUTU
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Nosegays : POSIES
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Lawbreaker : MURDERER
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Verb form: Abbr. : IMPER
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Star's walk-on role : CAMEO
34
Prefix with gram or graph : EPI
35
Unsophisticated : NAIF
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To build, in Caen : BATIR
37
Andy's sidekick : AMOS
38
French pronoun : UNE
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Acted as decoy : LURED
40
June V.I.P. : BRIDE
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Lawbreaker : PILFERER
43
Use a clasp : FASTEN
44
Wild revelry : ORGY
45
Angel's prop : HALO
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Flynn of film fame : ERROL
48
Lawbreaker : MUTINEER
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Lawbreaker : PLAGIARIST
54
Run in neutral : IDLE
55
Busy place : HIVE
56
Shampoo follow-up : RINSE
57
Munro pseudonym : SAKI
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Venison on the hoof : DEER
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Relative of Pan : SATYR
60
Certain Feds : TMEN
Down
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Aroma : ODOR
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Verboten : TABU
3
Caesar's doomsday : IDES
4
Lawbreaker : CARTHIEF
5
Cavalry swords : SABERS
6
Barton or Bow : CLARA
7
Nessen and Ziegler : RONS
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Printer's need : INK
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Lawbreaker : PERJURER
10
"Five foot two, eyes ___" : OFBLUE
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Playwright David : RABE
12
Footfall : STEP
13
Regatta gear : OAR
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Surpass : OUTDO
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Lascivious look : LEER
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Swollen : TUMID
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Kind of lamp or girl : PINUP
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Muscat native : OMANI
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Pitchman's forte : SPIEL
28
British boy's mom : MATER
29
Creditor's request : REMIT
30
Horace's form, at times : EPODE
31
Up : RISEN
33
Top man in Albany : CAREY
36
Lawbreakers : BURGLARS
37
Lawbreaker : ARSONIST
39
Dramatist Jones, now Imamu Baraka : LEROI
40
Java's neighbor : BALI
42
Lawbreaker : FORGER
43
Having more adipose : FATTER
45
Brazen woman : HUSSY
46
Author Wiesel : ELIE
47
Enthusiastic review : RAVE
48
After-dinner item : MINT
49
Gouda's kin : EDAM
50
Ms. Sommer : ELKE
51
Restraint of a sort : REIN
52
Possibility after an M.A. : PHD
53
Inlet : RIA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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