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Jeanette K. Brill
Jeanette K. Brill

New York Times, Friday, September 7, 1979

20-Across : Pain reliever

Author:
Jeanette K. Brill
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { F J Q X }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 12, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has duplicate clues.
Jeanette K. Brill has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,895
Across
1
White vestment : ALB
4
Stupid one : DOLT
8
Tree of the birch family : ALDER
13
Straight, as a drink : NEAT
15
Jug : EWER
16
Ingenuous : NAIVE
17
Part of DMZ : ZONE
18
Bristle : SETA
19
Assad's domain : SYRIA
20
Pain reliever : ANALGESIC
22
Handle effectively : WIELD
23
Stock of wine : CELLAR
24
Belief : TENET
26
Prefix with mural : INTRA
28
Wore away : ERODED
32
Separates : PARTS
35
___ du Vent : ILES
37
Win by a ___ : NOSE
38
Organic compound : ENOL
39
Sheds : MOLTS
40
Mal de ___ (headache): Fr. : TETE
41
Against : ANTI
42
Holy Roman emperor : OTHO
43
Tatter : SHRED
44
Pear : SECKEL
46
Old-womanish : ANILE
48
Welsh playwright-actor Williams : EMLYN
50
"___ Mister" : CALLME
54
Master, in colonial India : SAHIB
57
Flagrant : EGREGIOUS
59
Die down : ABATE
60
Soil : LOAM
61
Cartoonist who created the Democrats' donkey : NAST
62
Icy : GELID
63
Cougar : PUMA
64
Nymph whose voice became immortal : ECHO
65
Facing a glacier : STOSS
66
Ollie's partner : STAN
67
Part of a rt. triangle : HYP
Down
1
Soldier from Down Under : ANZAC
2
Sierra ___ : LEONE
3
Ordinary : BANAL
4
"The ___ Song": Romberg : DESERT
5
Is indebted to : OWES
6
Be natural or uninhibited : LETITALLHANGOUT
7
Hide or hair : TRACE
8
"___ a fool according to his folly": Proverbs : ANSWER
9
10
Dismal : DIRE
11
"Hear no ___" : EVIL
12
Peruse : READ
14
21
German goose : GANS
25
Mobsters' erstwhile nemesis : NESS
27
Read the ___ act : RIOT
29
Activist : DOER
30
Northeast Italian town : ESTE
31
Legal document : DEED
32
Legumes : PEAS
33
Ste. ___ de Beaupré : ANNE
34
Military org. : ROTC
36
Collar or jacket : ETON
39
"___ Flanders," Defoe novel : MOLL
43
Dross of a metal : SLAG
45
Fixes in the mind : EMBEDS
47
Former maker of house calls : ICEMAN
49
Shrill barks : YELPS
51
Slender European fish : LOACH
52
Mawkishly amorous : MUSHY
53
Legally bar : ESTOP
54
Loses resiliency : SAGS
55
Instigate : ABET
56
Nimbus : HALO
58
Author Santha ___ Rau : RAMA

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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