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Grace Fabbroni
Grace Fabbroni

New York Times, Monday, August 24, 1981

20-Across : Start of a quotation from Twain

Author:
Grace Fabbroni
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 259 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has both left-right and up-down symmetry.
Grace Fabbroni has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,612
Across
1
Alexander Raban Waugh : ALEC
5
Inspected, Sutton style : CASED
10
Sabin's counterpart : SALK
14
Sup : DINE
15
Declaim : ORATE
16
Part of HOMES : ERIE
17
Indigo : ANIL
18
Play a guitar : STRUM
19
Zenith : ACME
20
Start of a quotation from Twain : MODESTYDIEDWHEN
23
Fur piece : BOA
24
Extremity : TOE
25
Beethoven opera : FIDELIO
29
Withdrew : RECEDED
33
Oriental sashes : OBIS
34
River in western Africa : NIGER
36
Ready-to-eat food products : DELI
37
Wind direction : SSE
38
Actress Ullmann : LIV
39
Harvard's neighbor in Camb. : MIT
40
Clockmaker Thomas : SETH
42
Adjust : RESET
44
Boodle : LOOT
45
He gives a guarantee : ENSURER
47
Home of the Maple Leafs : TORONTO
49
Girl of song : SAL
50
Grog base : RUM
51
End of the quotation : CLOTHESWEREBORN
60
Fling : HURL
61
Winged : ALATE
62
He loved an Irish lass : ABIE
63
Take a long, longing look : OGLE
64
Stylish business establishment : SALON
65
Repetition : ROTE
66
An equal : PEER
67
100-yard dash e.g. : EVENT
68
Precious : DEAR
Down
1
A first mate : ADAM
2
Londoner's floor covering : LINO
3
City in Oklahoma : ENID
4
Indonesian island : CELEBES
5
Author of "The Silver Chalice" : COSTAIN
6
Bohemian : ARTY
7
Variety of chalcedony : SARD
8
Needle case : ETUI
9
Greek goddess of agriculture : DEMETER
10
Alga : SEAWEED
11
Waggish : ARCH
12
One source of vitamin C : LIME
13
Acute : KEEN
21
Peruvian coin : SOL
22
Well-known dwarf : DOC
25
Broadway choreographer : FOSSE
26
Author of "Hedda Gabler" : IBSEN
27
Assemblies : DIETS
28
Ken Stabler is one : OILER
29
Face an embankment : REVET
30
Imp : DEMON
31
Pen name of Mary Ann Evans : ELIOT
32
The same : DITTO
35
Servicemen : GIS
41
Go-getter : HUSTLER
42
Liberate : RELEASE
43
Swift, violent stream of water : TORRENT
44
Moneylender : LOMBARD
46
Stadium sound : RAH
48
Lament : RUE
51
Word with lamb or pork : CHOP
52
Small sled : LUGE
53
Shield décor : ORLE
54
Ukrainian, e.g. : SLAV
55
Ridge : WALE
56
Institution founded by Henry VI : ETON
57
Chinese horn : OBOE
58
Actress Moreno : RITA
59
Poetic negative : NEER

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

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