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Lois Sidway
Lois Sidway

New York Times, Friday, August 21, 1981

34-Across : Tom's follies

Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Lois Sidway has 67 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 18 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,609
Across
1
Scrape roughly : RASP
5
Father of The Seven Sisters : ATLAS
10
Brief brouhaha : SPAT
14
Feel sympathy for : ACHE
15
Like some eyes : BEADY
16
Part of a harrow : TINE
17
Sound heard in a clowder : PURR
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Prowl hungrily : RAVEN
19
Quondam : ONCE
20
Tableau : PICTURE
22
Quercine : OAKEN
23
Tide not likely to cause a flood : NEAP
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Beside : NEXTTO
27
Part of a Presidential appeal : ASKNOT
29
Degree for an English prof. : DLIT
30
Abecedarian threesome : FGH
33
Rods for roasts : SPITS
34
Tom's follies : PEEPS
35
Second consonant : CEE
36
Tunny containers : TINS
37
Outsize : LARGE
38
Dessert for a court jester? : FOOL
39
Cardiologist's clue : EKG
40
Questionable : FISHY
41
Filmdom family name : FONDA
42
Gun one's engine : REV
43
Piedmontese wine city : ASTI
44
Baffles : ELUDES
45
Seat (second spelling) : INSTAL
47
Music-minded Renaissance priest : NERI
48
Skedaddle : SCOOT
50
A Lovelace lass : LUCASTA
53
Pickerelweed : TULE
54
Samba's cousin : MAMBO
56
Nickname for Archibald of the Celtics : TINY
58
"Kane and ___," Jeffrey Archer novel : ABEL
59
Village smithy : SHOER
60
First-rate : AONE
61
Stumps : GETS
62
Sword for Lord Raglan : SABRE
63
Nucleic acids, for short : RNAS
Down
1
The least bit, informally : RAP
2
"We'll tak' ___ ... ": Burns : ACUP
3
Wallflower : SHRINKINGVIOLET
4
Certain bonds, securities, etc. : PERCENTS
5
Sudden : ABRUPT
6
Toot : TEAR
7
Alec Guinness and cohorts : LAVENDERHILLMOB
8
Frappe base, perhaps : ADE
9
Prefix with thesis or chronic : SYN
10
Weasel prized for its fur : STOAT
11
Hale-and-hearty state : PINKOFCONDITION
12
Suffix with appear or clear : ANCE
13
Owner of Leapin' Lena : TEEN
21
Kit Carson's house is here : TAOS
22
Baseball's Ed and Mel : OTTS
25
Lament : ELEGY
26
Aztec god of sowing : XIPE
27
Goldenrod's cousin : ASTER
28
Kind of heel : SPIKE
31
Crystal-bearing nodule of stone : GEODE
32
"Oh, woe!," in Bordeaux : HELAS
34
Cannelloni, e.g. : PASTA
37
Roster : LIST
38
Adjective for a general or admiral : FOURSTAR
40
"April Morning" author : FAST
41
Dog's bane : FLEA
44
Plea to Pavarotti : ENCORE
46
Carols : NOELS
48
Bridegroom's fete : STAG
49
Cheese chunk : CUBE
51
Over, in Oberhausen : UBER
52
Grandma Moses : ANNA
54
Preliminary papers: Abbr. : MSS
55
Eureka! : AHA
57
Something "she didn't say" : YES

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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