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Maura B. Jacobson
Maura B. Jacobson

New York Times, Tuesday, January 10, 1978

29-Down : "___ American," poem by Elias Lieberman

Author:
Maura B. Jacobson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 303 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Maura B. Jacobson has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,377
Across
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Mendicant's garb : RAGS
5
One of the Kennedys : ETHEL
10
Did the crawl : SWAM
14
Make eyes at : OGLE
15
Author Hite : SHERE
16
Escutcheon décor : ORLE
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"I am ___": John 11:25 : THERESURRECTION
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Urdu, for one : LANGUAGE
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Made a memo, with "down" : JOTTED
22
Roof ornaments : EPIS
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Outside: Prefix : ECTO
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Antony's audience : ROMANS
27
Arctic sight : FLOE
28
Standoff : TIE
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Expiate : ATONE
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Nursery need : CRIB
33
Pharmacy unit : DRAM
34
Horner's words : WHATAGOODBOYAMI
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Optician's concern : LENS
38
Fairy-tale opener : ONCE
39
Princely : REGAL
40
Leap and lean: Abbr. : YRS
41
Forth's opposite : BACK
42
Secant's relative : COSINE
43
The two : BOTH
44
Landed : ALIT
45
Outdistanced ones : LOSERS
48
Maligned : TRADUCED
52
"___ I am": Descartes : ITHINKTHEREFORE
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Vingt-___ : ETUN
55
Miffed : IRATE
56
Cop, in Carcassonne : FLIC
57
Artist Kingman : DONG
58
Thurmond and Archibald : NATES
59
Burden for Rigoletto : SACK
Down
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N. African weight : ROTL
2
Turkish chief : AGHA
3
Secluded valley : GLEN
4
Mac Hyman's "No Time for ___" : SERGEANTS
5
French attempts : ESSAIS
6
Hoodlums : THUGS
7
In this world : HERE
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Make a gaffe : ERR
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Portrayer of Willy Loman : LEEJCOBB
10
___ voce : SOTTO
11
Legal paper : WRIT
12
Lily plant : ALOE
13
Patch up : MEND
18
Regular breathing : EUPNEA
19
Dove's digs : COTE
23
Suppress a vowel or syllable : ELIDE
24
In a crude manner : RAWLY
25
Different : OTHER
26
Bewails : MOANS
27
Boutique item : FROCK
28
Parts of ears : TRAGI
29
"___ American," poem by Elias Lieberman : IAMAN
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Rousseau hero : EMILE
32
Beachcomber's find : CONCH
33
Tinters' needs : DYESTUFFS
35
Type of leather : GOATSKIN
36
Alloy imitating gold : OROIDE
41
"I Am ___" ("David Copperfield" chapter) : BORN
42
Luce et al. : CLARES
43
Live one : BEING
44
Sharp ridge : ARETE
45
Told a whopper : LIED
46
Former king of Greece : OTTO
47
Give a wide berth to : SHUN
48
"I am ___ I am": Exod. 3:14 : THAT
49
Caffeine-producing nut : COLA
50
Sevareid : ERIC
51
Milieu of a crew : DECK
53
Refrain syllable : TRA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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