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Grace Fabbroni
Grace Fabbroni

New York Times, Monday, October 22, 1984

5-Down : Glazier's purchase

Author:
Grace Fabbroni
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 298 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 0, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Grace Fabbroni has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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K
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B
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,767
Across
1
Owns : HAS
4
Calendar moon's age at New Year's Day : EPACT
9
Collide : BUMP
13
Concerning : ASTO
15
Red signal flare : FUSEE
16
Sacred bird of Egypt : IBIS
17
20
Transmission via genes : HEREDITY
21
Heart : CORE
22
One-time Hungarian prime minister : NAGY
23
Former Israeli foreign minister : EBAN
25
Sermon : HOMILY
28
Cupid : AMOR
29
Airman's short trip : HOP
32
The Terrible one : IVAN
33
Necktie : ASCOT
34
Peruvian plant : OCA
35
39
Annapolis grad. : ENS
40
Sieved pulp : PUREE
41
Assemble : MEET
42
Irish Sea feeder : DEE
43
Eastern title : EMIR
44
Instrumental piece : SONATA
46
Kind of school : PREP
47
Department of southern France : AUDE
48
Capital of Western Samoa : APIA
50
Word puzzle : ACROSTIC
54
57
Forward : PERT
58
Bandleader Shaw : ARTIE
59
Thun's river : AARE
60
Aboard : ONTO
61
Crush into bits : GRIND
62
Ump's counterpart : REF
Down
1
Jumble : HASH
2
Famed netman : ASHE
3
Recipe verb : STIR
4
Crude image : EFFIGY
5
Glazier's purchase : PUTTY
6
Wan : ASHY
7
Bee follower : CEE
8
Spread hay : TED
9
Wisent : BISON
10
Above, in Bonn : UBER
11
Slime : MIRE
12
Kin of "Hey, there!" : PST
14
Debut : OPENING
18
Medieval heritable land : ODAL
19
Card game : ECARTE
23
TV host : EMCEE
24
Blockhead : BOOB
25
Tramped : HIKED
26
Sheeplike : OVINE
27
Rectory : MANSE
28
Jacob's eighth son : ASHER
29
Book of the Bible : HOSEA
30
Group of eight : OCTET
31
Trattoria offering : PASTA
33
Anchor position : ATRIP
36
"Tosca" and "Carmen" : OPERAS
37
Vapor : FUME
38
Memory loss : AMNESIA
44
Rode the waves : SURFED
45
Repute : ODOR
46
Piebald horse : PINTO
47
Protein in muscles : ACTIN
48
A final word : AMEN
49
Quota : PART
50
Italian wine region : ASTI
51
Lachryma : TEAR
52
Regarding : INRE
53
Alphabetic quartet : CDEF
54
Mil. address : APO
55
Suitcase : BAG
56
Stray : ERR

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 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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