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Brown
Brown

New York Times, Thursday, August 2, 1984

48-Across : Insipid

Author:
Brown
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J W X Z }, Scrabble score: 301 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Brown has 7 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,686
Across
1
Ancient Italian : SABINE
7
Assagai : SPEAR
12
Grandiloquent : SONOROUS
14
Tranquil : PLACID
16
Alberta is one : PROVINCE
17
Loss of power : OUTAGE
18
Source of a perfume ingredient : ORRIS
19
Fakery : HOKUM
21
Small amount : DAB
22
Interpret : READ
23
Litchi or loquat : FRUIT
24
Second in a series : BETA
25
Wapiti : ELK
26
Suppress : QUELL
27
Populace : DEMOS
28
Coagulate : CURD
29
Kind of rhyme or verse : LEONINE
31
Snoop : PRIER
33
Famed fashion designer : PUCCI
34
Sharpshooter : DEADEYE
36
Swank : POSH
37
Deciduous shrub : ALDER
38
Swiftly : APACE
40
Graduate degree: Abbr. : MBA
43
Former Israeli prime minister : MEIR
44
Verity : TRUTH
45
Scottish Highlander : GAEL
46
Constellation : ARA
47
Style of earthenware : DELFT
48
Insipid : BANAL
49
Brooding hen : SITTER
51
Statuette : FIGURINE
53
Makes obeisance : KNEELS
54
A governor of colonial Virginia : YEARDLEY
55
Fisher or Cantor : EDDIE
56
Feast : SPREAD
Down
1
Bay's cousin : SORREL
2
Alaskan's jacket : ANORAK
3
Sheep or goat : BOVID
4
Jacob's-sword, e.g. : IRIS
5
___ sequitur : NON
6
Outwitted, with "out" : EUCHRED
7
Speak volubly : SPOUT
8
Damson, e.g. : PLUM
9
Consume : EAT
10
Scholarly : ACADEMIC
11
Type of pasta : RIGATONI
12
Seed : SPORE
13
Ducksoo Palace site : SEOUL
15
Adulterate : DEBASE
20
Pass idly, as time : KILL
23
Like cats and bears : FURRY
24
Judge's seat : BENCH
26
Odd : QUEER
27
Extinguish : DOUSE
28
Autumnal quaff : CIDER
30
Era : EPOCH
31
Woman's cape : PELERINE
32
Glowed : RADIATED
34
Fine linen : DAMASK
35
Viscount's superior : EARL
36
Hamburgers or pielets : PATTIES
39
Swollen : PUFFY
40
Strong paper : MANILA
41
Hit on the head : BEANED
42
Passageway : ALLEY
44
Concise : TERSE
45
Avant-___ : GARDE
47
Salami shop, for short : DELI
48
Vidal book : BURR
50
Do a haying chore : TED
52
Interval : GAP

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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