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D. Jones
D. Jones

New York Times, Friday, September 14, 1984

7-Across : Hit signs

Author:
D. Jones
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { H J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
D. Jones has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,729
Across
1
Brutal ones : BEASTS
7
Hit signs : SROS
11
Some New Deal initials : WPA
14
Jawaharial's daughter : INDIRA
15
Gas: Comb. form : AERO
16
A Dadaist : ARP
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Quantity less than 100 shares : ODDLOT
18
Chief : MAIN
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___-hoo (a call) : YOO
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Partridge's associates : ETYMOLOGISTS
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Whirl : SPIN
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Glossy black : RAVEN
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___ Cong : VIET
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One-eighth gallon : PINT
29
Some accts. : IRAS
30
Indicating form : MODAL
31
Longing : YEN
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Cicatrix : SCAR
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Peaceful : SERENE
34
Layer : COAT
35
Indiana city : GARY
36
Occur : BEFALL
39
Dumb : MUTE
40
Vintner's container : VAT
43
Rub out : ERASE
44
Island east of Java : BALI
45
Sap : DOPE
46
Record : DISC
47
Detection system : RADAR
48
Fired : AXED
49
Specialist whose field covers 675,000 species : ENTOMOLOGIST
52
Compete : VIE
53
So be it : AMEN
54
Cars or desserts : COUPES
58
Possessive pronoun : ITS
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Capitol of Calvados : CAEN
60
Establish one's position : ARRIVE
61
Permit : LET
62
Sicilian city : ENNA
63
Score in quoits : LEANER
Down
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Short life-history : BIO
2
Upshot : END
3
Join to : ADD
4
Uncommunicative : SILENT
5
Gait between a walk and a run : TROT
6
Lustful; lecherous : SATYRICAL
7
Russian urn for tea : SAMOVAR
8
Old silver coins of Spain : REALES
9
Sky Hunter : ORION
10
Jim Croce creation : SONG
11
Road border : WAYSIDE
12
Exceedingly variable : PROTEAN
13
Mormon Church official : APOSTLE
21
A colleague of Danton : MARAT
22
Dentine : IVORY
23
K.G.B. man : SPY
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Baked dish : PIE
25
Du Maurier's "Jamaica ___" : INN
30
Nothing more than : MERE
32
Exclusive : SOLE
33
Like Wilde or Swift : SATIRICAL
34
Maine bay : CASCO
35
___ Archipelago (network of prisons) : GULAG
36
Plague : BEDEVIL
37
Green arsenate of copper : ERINITE
38
Most secure : FASTEST
39
Raphael subject : MADONNA
40
___ angelica (organ stop) : VOX
41
Tarzan's Cheeta : APE
42
Dancer Shawn : TED
44
Whalebone : BALEEN
45
A poisonous plant : DATURA
47
Type of type : ROMAN
50
Mugger's comeuppance : MACE
51
Touchy : SORE
55
Skewer : PIN
56
A pome made her leave home : EVE
57
Sun. topic : SER

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3 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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