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Jeanette K. Brill
Jeanette K. Brill

New York Times, Wednesday, November 23, 1977

3-Down : Firmly loyal, as friends

Author:
Jeanette K. Brill
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3 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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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,329
Across
1
Tetched : DAFT
5
Jack jumper : SLED
9
Its overgrowth is called onychauxis : NAIL
13
Construction girder : IBAR
14
Nappy : PILED
16
Middies' rival : ARMY
17
Portion of a potion : DOSE
18
As quick as a cat : AGILE
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He wrote "Essay on Man" : POPE
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Tallow : SUET
24
"Bloomer ___" : GIRL
25
Have scruples : DEMUR
28
Thrashed : GAVEITTO
32
Squirrel's tidbit : ACORN
33
"Buy now, pay ___" : LATER
34
___ Claire, Wis. : EAU
35
Reactionary : TORY
36
Listless one : MOPER
37
Dillon of "Gunsmoke" : MATT
38
Guido note : ELA
39
Spelunkers' milieu : CAVES
40
Le Mans entrant : RACER
41
At liberty at last : RELEASED
43
Yellow pigment : OCHRE
44
Robert Stack role : NESS
45
Restless inclination : ITCH
47
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Tart : SOUR
54
Big name in bridge : GOREN
55
Stumble : TRIP
56
Lohengrin's wife : ELSA
57
Of one of the Great Lakes : ERIAN
58
Salinger's "To ___ with Love" : ESME
59
"___ no more, my lady" : WEEP
60
Time long gone by : YORE
61
A beginning : SEED
Down
1
Prank : DIDO
2
___ Hassan, "Arabian Nights" character : ABOU
3
Firmly loyal, as friends : FAST
4
Hamilton's post in 1789 : TREASURY
5
Freshet : SPATE
6
"The ___ That Failed" : LIGHT
7
Sculptor Nadelman : ELIE
8
Signers of the Declaration : DELEGATES
9
Città near Vesuvius : NAPOLI
10
In ___ (lined up) : AROW
11
Mischievous ones : IMPS
12
Caustic : LYE
15
Rescue : DELIVER
21
Pirouette : TURN
22
Fox or Rabbit : BRER
25
Time marker : DATER
26
Eleve's school : ECOLE
27
Righteous : MORAL
28
Yawned : GAPED
29
Emulate Jean Brodie : TEACH
30
"Spud" : TATER
31
Bizarre : OUTRE
33
Segal best seller : LOVESTORY
36
Kneading of sorts : MASSAGE
37
Portuguese guitars : MACHETES
39
City in Normandy : CAEN
40
French saint: Aug. 16 : ROCH
42
Sheathe : ENWRAP
45
"___ America Singing": Whitman : IHEAR
46
Shade of orange : TENNE
47
Allot sparingly : DOLE
48
York's river : OUSE
49
Wynken, Blynken and Nod : TRIO
50
Gaelic : ERSE
51
Mortar ingredient : LIME
52
Hurried : SPED
53
Baste : SEW

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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