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Jeanette K. Brill
Jeanette K. Brill

New York Times, Wednesday, November 3, 1982

10-Down : Bedecks

Author:
Jeanette K. Brill
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, 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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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,048
Across
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Man of wealth : NABOB
6
Newspaper sect. : ROTO
10
Dill : ANET
14
Love feast : AGAPE
15
SW Alaskan island : ADAK
16
Old fogy : DODO
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Suffered defeat : GOTTHEWORSTOFIT
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Pismire : ANT
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Manifest : OVERT
22
Fanon : ORALE
23
More competent : ABLER
25
Batted in a special way : BUNTED
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Covered, as a roof : TILED
28
Derby winner: 1955 : SWAPS
30
Operatic highlight : ARIA
31
Erect : RAISE
32
"Sympathy" partner : TEA
35
Suffered defeat : TOOKITONTHECHIN
39
Bay State cape : ANN
40
Subject of a "Tristram Shandy" chapter : NOSES
41
___ an ear (listen) : LEND
42
Take the helm : STEER
43
Nobel Peace Prize co-winner: 1925 : DAWES
44
Having wings : ALATED
47
Girl in a pool : STENO
49
Asia ___ : MINOR
50
"Holy Mountain" of the Greek Church : ATHOS
52
Kramer film: 1970 : RPM
55
Suffered defeat : METONESWATERLOO
58
Eager : AGOG
59
Con's confines : STIR
60
Golf's ___ Cup : RYDER
61
Hawaiian goose : NENE
62
Prong : TINE
63
Integument : TESTA
Down
1
Burma's ___ Hills : NAGA
2
Stravinsky ballet : AGON
3
Army unit : BATTALION
4
Select : OPT
5
Gaze upon : BEHOLD
6
Less cooked : RAWER
7
Repute : ODOR
8
Snappish : TART
9
Rhyme for yeas : OKS
10
Bedecks : ADORNS
11
" ... could eat ___" : NOFAT
12
Roman official : EDILE
13
Lugged : TOTED
18
"The stag at ___ ... " : EVE
19
Cosell's "rug" : TOUPEE
24
Rostrum : BEAK
25
Crushing blow : BASH
26
Toodle-oo : TATA
27
Word with fist or horse : IRON
28
More rational : SANER
29
Jokesters : WITS
31
"Only a ___," 1925 song : ROSE
32
"All ___ a stage ... " : THEWORLDS
33
Article in Austria : EINE
34
Ampersands : ANDS
36
Apprentice teacher : INTERN
37
Digitate, in a way : TOED
38
Clique : CLAN
42
Puppet : STOOGE
43
Abandon : DESERT
44
Jordanian city, once called Philadelphia : AMMAN
45
Subject : LIEGE
46
Chekhov : ANTON
47
Wall Street term : SHARE
48
Little one : TOT
50
Italian wine city : ASTI
51
Dupicate : TWIN
53
Alan Seeger, e.g. : POET
54
Metrical unit : MORA
56
Part of i.e. : EST
57
Bar order : RYE

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

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