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Harriet Gilson Rosenberg
Harriet Gilson Rosenberg

New York Times, Monday, January 2, 1978

42-Down : Where Columbus thought he landed

Author:
Harriet Gilson Rosenberg
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.76, Missing: { J Q W X }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Harriet Gilson Rosenberg has 24 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,369
Across
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Scrape with a file : RASP
5
Police-alert initials : APB
8
Berserk, in Malaya : AMOK
12
Nymph who loved Narcissus : ECHO
13
Famous pen name : ELIA
14
Object shaped like a horn : CORNU
16
Do a K.P. job : PEEL
17
Shreds of threads : LINT
18
Author of "Danger Is My Business" : CRAIG
19
Great guy : SALTOFTHEEARTH
22
Prods : URGES
23
Threatener's word : UNLESS
24
"___ is its own reward" : VIRTUE
27
Comedian Johnson : ARTE
28
Sign of the Zodiac : ARIES
29
Batting-practice prop : CAGE
31
Ike's monogram : DDE
34
Barbary ___ : COAST
35
Bauxite or malachite : ORE
36
"___ of the devil ... " : SPEAK
38
What a ques. expects : ANS
39
Gunsight : BEAD
40
Fad : CRAZE
41
Variegated : PIED
43
Coupled : PAIRED
44
Part of AWOL : ABSENT
47
Centuries upon centuries : AEONS
49
Source of livelihood : BREADANDBUTTER
53
Isle in a 1934 song : CAPRI
54
"Thanks ___!" : ALOT
55
"Terrible" man : IVAN
57
Pass between pastures : STILE
58
City of the Huguenots : SENS
59
Out-of-studio broadcast : NEMO
60
Emulates Simon : SAYS
61
Make an effort : TRY
62
Land of the shamrock : ERIN
Down
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Upholstery fabric : REP
2
"Easy ___" of radio fame : ACES
3
Stadium in Queens : SHEA
4
Defiles : POLLUTES
5
"What ___!" : ALIFE
6
Pub orders : PINTS
7
Rare event for a hobo : BATH
8
Inflection : ACCENT
9
Esprit de corps : MORALE
10
Laborare est ___ (to labor is to pray) : ORARE
11
Works with wool : KNITS
13
Funeral oration : ELOGE
15
Cries of disgust : UGHS
20
Word on U.S. coins : TRUST
21
Chartres's river : EURE
24
Cow, to a gaucho : VACA
25
Golf club : IRON
26
U.S. radio station in Berlin : RIAS
27
Like some cheeses : AGED
29
One of the Yalies : COED
30
Parseghian : ARA
31
"___ Abby" : DEAR
32
Stupor : DAZE
33
Made a bare living : EKED
36
Meager : SCANT
37
Aboriginal : PRISTINE
39
Word on a certain key : BETA
41
Like St. Peter's portals : PEARLY
42
Where Columbus thought he landed : INDIES
43
Sulks : POUTS
44
Sesame Street subject : ABCS
45
Baby sitters' problems : BRATS
46
Drawing in brown : SEPIA
47
Harmonica virtuoso : ADLER
48
Wood often used for chessmen : EBONY
50
Boss Tweed's nemesis : NAST
51
Always : EVER
52
Branches : RAMI
56
Prefix with conformist : NON

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