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Elaine D. Schorr
Elaine D. Schorr

New York Times, Tuesday, February 5, 1980

28-Down : "Union ___," book by Sayles: 1977

Author:
Elaine D. Schorr
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Elaine D. Schorr has 49 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,046
Across
1
Words of contempt : BAHS
5
Australian actress Cilento : DIANE
10
"Silas Marner" squire : CASS
14
Not of the cloister : LAIC
15
Creators of blurbs : ADMEN
16
Teutonic king : OTTO
17
Vessel of myth : ARGO
18
Kind of cake : YEAST
19
Simon or Diamond : NEIL
20
Regards : BEHOLDS
22
Lone Ranger's steed : SILVER
24
Take the lead : STAR
25
Mazo de la ___ : ROCHE
26
Go before : ANTECEDE
29
Winter warmer : EARLAP
33
Quantity of wood : CORD
34
Charley's Dona Lucia : AUNT
36
Vermont ski resort : STOWE
37
Eskimo knife : ULU
38
Composer of "The Bartered Bride" : SMETANA
40
Saw backward : WAS
41
City in Egypt : TANTA
43
Homophone for sorry : SARI
44
Saarinen : EERO
45
Associate of Karl Marx : ENGELS
47
Slow goers : LAGGARDS
49
Mechanical routines : ROTES
51
Biblical word : HATH
52
Pupil covering : CORNEA
54
___ ends (unsettled) : ATLOOSE
57
ETV fare : NOVA
58
Molded dish : ASPIC
60
Darkness, to Nicole : NUIT
61
Mideast acronym : OPEC
62
Arrowsmith's wife : LEORA
63
"___ Perpetua," Idaho motto : ESTO
64
Painter Magritte : RENE
65
"O magic ___!": Keats : SLEEP
66
Witnessed : SEEN
Down
1
Be a stoolie : BLAB
2
Swiss river : AARE
3
Excitable : HIGHSTRUNG
4
Decamped : SCOOTED
5
Reverie : DAYDREAM
6
The day that Brutus struck : IDES
7
Japanese woman diver : AMA
8
Link, in Livorno : NESSO
9
What sirens do : ENTICE
10
Score a spare : CONVERT
11
To ___ (precisely) : ATEE
12
Slammer : STIR
13
Hurok : SOL
21
Resinous secretion : LAC
23
___ apso (Tibetan dog) : LHASA
25
What some car companies offer : RENTALS
26
Perspicacious : ACUTE
27
Actress Jeanette : NOLAN
28
"Union ___," book by Sayles: 1977 : DUES
30
Tip O'Neill's milieu : LOWERHOUSE
31
Antoinette Perry is one : AWARD
32
Pancho's moola : PESOS
35
Scarlett's place : TARA
38
Beauty parlor : SALON
39
Headgear for Scrooge : NIGHTCAP
42
O'Hara's "From the ___" : TERRACE
44
___ words (retract) : EATONES
46
Picks pockets : STEALS
48
Chick : GAL
50
Tripod : EASEL
52
Deal with successfully : COPE
53
Kind of bird : OVEN
54
Leeds's river : AIRE
55
Developer's interest : SITE
56
Windsor Castle neighbor : ETON
57
"___ any drop ... " : NOR
59
"Tamerlane" poet : POE

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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