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Maura B. Jacobson
Maura B. Jacobson

New York Times, Friday, February 6, 1976

5-Down : Answers a stimulus

Author:
Maura B. Jacobson
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { B Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Maura B. Jacobson has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,673
Across
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Bouquet greenery : FERN
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Fossil : RELIC
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African nation : MALI
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Melville title : OMOO
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Clio's sister : ERATO
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Sky sightings : UFOS
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Perfumes : ESSENCES
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Actress Smith : ALEXIS
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Curtails : CUTS
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Miss Bagnold : ENID
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Oral declarations : PAROLS
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Antique adjective : OLDE
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Single thickness : PLY
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Man from Muscat : OMANI
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Church area : APSE
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Wild plum : SLOE
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Annexes : ELLS
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Garden implements : HOES
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Ready : ONTAP
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Turkish title : DEY
41
Patch up : MEND
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Rock-star John and namesakes : ELTONS
43
Clamp : VISE
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Gone: Fr. : ALLE
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Drake's conquest : ARMADA
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Estrange : ALIENATE
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Con : ANTI
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Indian millet : DURRA
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Scraped by, with "out" : EKED
57
Kind of hog or map : ROAD
58
Chest: Prefix : STETH
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Actress Thompson : SADA
Down
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Golf cry : FORE
2
Cassowary's cousins : EMUS
3
Betsy or Barney : ROSS
4
Rocket heads : NOSECONES
5
Answers a stimulus : REACTS
6
Sea eagles : ERNES
7
Track circuits : LAPS
8
Japanese statesman : ITO
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Sieve : COLANDER
10
Subdued : MUTED
11
In ___ (up a tree) : AFIX
12
Fixed points : LOCI
13
Prefixes for bar and metric : ISOS
18
Plant starch : INULIN
19
Netman Nastase : ILIE
23
"Lohengrin" lady et al. : ELSAS
24
Not candid : POSED
25
"A miss is as good as ___" : AMILE
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Campaign meet : RALLY
27
Chose : OPTED
28
"Republic" author : PLATO
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Navigation aid : LORAN
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Barks : YELPS
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In unison : ASONE
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Sets the penalty : SENTENCES
35
"Footprints on ___ of time" : THESANDS
36
Gallup subject : POLLEE
41
Noon, in Caen : MIDI
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Mendelssohn oratorio : ELIJAH
43
Tried and true : VALID
44
On the qui vive : ALERT
45
___ cry (dissimilar) : AFAR
46
City in the West : RENO
47
"I ___ man with ... " : META
48
Chad village : ADRE
49
Aleutian island : ATKA
50
Started like Snead : TEED
51
Icelandic epic : EDDA
53
Tennis-racquet material : GUT

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 4 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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