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Jean J. Davison
Jean J. Davison

New York Times, Thursday, August 16, 1979

54-Across : Unpremeditated homicide (nonsexist style)

Author:
Jean J. Davison
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Jean J. Davison has 62 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,873
Across
1
Eager : AVID
5
Kind of sugar or syrup : MAPLE
10
Nicklaus and Palmer, e.g. : PROS
14
Explosive device : MINE
15
Irritating : ACRID
16
Part of a roof : EAVE
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Lid in a street (nonsexist style) : PERSONHOLECOVER
20
Disparaged : DECRIED
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Burdens for Brutus : ONERA
22
Peruse : READ
23
Nimble : SPRY
25
Negligent : REMISS
28
Chimpanzees and gorillas : APES
29
Haggard's Ayesha : SHE
32
Succulent plant : ALOE
33
Mall unit : STORE
34
Conflict : WAR
35
Worldly one (nonsexist style) : PERSONABOUTTOWN
39
Manet's "___ Boat" : INA
40
Old Nick : SATAN
41
Nylons, e.g. : HOSE
42
"Life with Father" author : DAY
43
Leave out : OMIT
44
Old hags : CRONES
46
Small bird : WREN
47
Blue, in Bonn : BLAU
48
Alaskan highway : ALCAN
51
Member of a farmers' organization : GRANGER
54
Unpremeditated homicide (nonsexist style) : PERSONSLAUGHTER
58
Hit a dipteran : SWAT
59
Commences : OPENS
60
Word before poem or deaf : TONE
61
Advance gradually : EDGE
62
Beatrice's admirer : DANTE
63
Haughty one : SNOB
Down
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Elec. unit : AMP
2
Contested : VIED
3
Anent : INRE
4
Spies : DESCRIES
5
Crazes : MANIAS
6
Hurt : ACHED
7
Goad : PROD
8
Diamond ___ : LIL
9
Dutch commune : EDE
10
Gaudy flower : PEONY
11
Glowing review : RAVE
12
" ... the rain is ___ and gone" : OVER
13
Evening, in Milano : SERA
18
Unrefined materials : ORES
19
"Gay Nineties" unmentionable : CORSET
23
Pitch woo : SPOON
24
Scene of Pizarro's conquest : PERU
25
Part of IRT : RAPID
26
___ Mukhina. Soviet gymnast : ELENA
27
Voracious eel : MORAY
28
Up, in baseball : ATBAT
29
Faint : SWOON
30
Ship's hole for cables : HAWSE
31
Anagram for sneer : ERNES
33
Lining material : SATIN
36
City in Chile : OSORNO
37
Designate : NAME
38
"___ rule the world": Emerson : THOUGHTS
44
Contract section : CLAUSE
45
Telephoned : RANG
46
Consume uselessly : WASTE
47
Arctic goose : BRANT
48
Church section : APSE
49
Obscene : LEWD
50
Rough, broken cliff : CRAG
51
Secluded valley : GLEN
52
Public school : ETON
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Splitsville, U.S.A. : RENO
55
Doze : NOD
56
Health spot : SPA
57
Johnny ___ : REB

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

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