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Jones
Jones

New York Times, Monday, October 31, 1983

21-Down : Retain

Author:
Jones
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Jones has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,410
Across
1
Cole ___ : SLAW
5
Crows' cousins : DAWS
9
Black ___ : MAGIC
14
Actress Anderson : LONI
15
Give forth : EMIT
16
Actress Rich : IRENE
17
"It ___ Necessarily So" : AINT
18
City in Hawaii : HILO
19
Dapper : NATTY
20
Halloween alternative : TRICKORTREAT
23
"But to ___ was to love ... ": Burns : SEEHER
24
Prefix with plunk : KER
25
Sch. units : GRS
28
Suppers for 30 Down : CENAS
31
President of France: 1932-40 : LEBRUN
33
Office gadget : SHARPENER
37
Threefold : TRINE
38
Zhivago's beloved : LARA
39
Cat in "Through the Looking Glass" : DINAH
41
Bone: Comb. form : OSTE
42
Look ___ horse in the mouth : AGIFT
44
Self-powered item : LOCOMOTOR
46
Type of interest : VESTED
48
Desert shrub : RETEM
49
Chemical suffix : ENE
50
Arith. units : NOS
52
Bathes : WASHES
56
Halloween illumination : JACKOLANTERN
59
Joshua's comrade : CALEB
62
Monogram pt. : INIT
63
Actress Swenson : INGA
64
In any way : ATALL
65
Kind of driver : PILE
66
Shear, as hair : CROP
67
Séance site : TABLE
68
Budge : STIR
69
Little foxes : KITS
Down
1
Blind sections : SLATS
2
River at Nantes : LOIRE
3
Sandy's owner : ANNIE
4
Preoccupation in colonial Salem : WITCHCRAFT
5
Made cattle harmless : DEHORNED
6
Kabul bigwig : AMIR
7
Wither : WILT
8
Babies' bird : STORK
9
Muezzin's tower : MINARET
10
"How now! ___?": Hamlet : ARAT
11
Receive : GET
12
Financial abbr. : INT
13
Ron of the Cubs : CEY
21
Retain : KEEP
22
Moray, e.g. : EEL
25
Miller's material : GRIST
26
Vince Lombardi's "___ Daylight" : RUNTO
27
Curl the lip : SNEER
29
Indigo : ANIL
30
Spanish title : SENOR
32
Halloween transportation : BROOMSTICK
33
Spartacus was one : SLAVE
34
Five-time P.G.A. champ : HAGEN
35
Originate : ARISE
36
Derby, e.g. : RACE
40
Difficulty : HOTWATER
43
That can be held : TENABLE
45
Intend : MEAN
47
Medico : DOC
51
Elides : SKIPS
53
Matisse : HENRI
54
Rye fungus : ERGOT
55
Easy tasks : SNAPS
56
Take form : JELL
57
"Don't bet ___!" : ONIT
58
Caron role : LILI
59
Grimalkin : CAT
60
One ___ time : ATA
61
Place for Bunsen or Petri : LAB

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 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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