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Marjorie Pedersen
Marjorie Pedersen

New York Times, Saturday, February 7, 1976

3-Down : Ancient Britons

Author:
Marjorie Pedersen
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Marjorie Pedersen has 12 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

Clue for 33-Down was originally "Les ___ Units"; this was corrected to "Les ___ Unis"

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H
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P
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R
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D
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F
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G
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G
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W
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P
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N
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P
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B
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H
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,674
Across
1
Jazz devotee : HEPCAT
7
Stutz models : BEARCATS
15
Bird of Baltimore : ORIOLE
16
Non-favorite : UNDERDOG
17
Sam and Tom : UNCLES
18
Little and Junior : LEAGUERS
19
Insect egg : NIT
20
Footnote abbr. : ETAL
22
Prefix for Arthur or Donald : MAC
23
Relative of dem and dose : DESE
25
Cider gal : IDA
27
Mortgages : LIENS
31
"Praise ___!" : THELORD
35
"Thanks ___" : ALOT
36
Wealthy big shot : FATCAT
39
Cow : GUERNSEY
41
Caucasian language : UDI
42
Hindu group of deities : MANDALA
44
Building wing : ELL
45
One who abridges books : DIGESTER
47
Existing : INESSE
49
Russian city : OREL
50
Processed meat : SAUSAGE
52
Hebrew weights : GERAS
54
Abbr. in a boardinghouse ad : RMS
55
Simpleton : GAWP
59
Even if, for short : THO
61
Ornery : MEAN
64
Donate, in Scotland : GIE
65
City near Havana : MARIANAO
69
Take another vote : REPOLL
71
Of an Austrian area : TYROLEAN
72
Lousiana native : CREOLE
73
Hen-coop site : BARNYARD
74
Frank : HOTDOG
Down
1
Baskerville beast : HOUND
2
Borgnine, to friends : ERNIE
3
Ancient Britons : PICTS
4
Mountain gap : COL
5
Nautical position : ALEE
6
Acid or high : TEST
7
English hero of fiction : BULLDOGDRUMMOND
8
Chemical suffix : ENE
9
Bede or 12 : ADAM
10
Majestic : REGAL
11
Carp of Europe : CRUCIAN
12
Lime or lemon : ADE
13
"High ___" : TOR
14
Certain medics: Abbr. : SGS
21
Be sickly : AIL
24
Relative of 20 Across : ETC
26
Brazilian people : ARUA
28
"That's someone ___" (not mine) : ELSES
29
Coward et al. : NOELS
30
Mode : STYLE
32
Radio buffs : HAMS
33
Les ___ Unis : ETATS
34
Old Greek festival : DELIA
36
Chinese art piece : FUDOG
37
C'est ___ : ADIRE
38
Lily or shark : TIGER
40
Phoned : RANG
43
Nigh : NEAR
46
Joy : ELATION
48
Brain-wave test: Abbr. : EEG
51
Compass point : SSE
53
Like certain rocks : SHALY
56
"___ time was had by all" : AGOOD
57
___-the-wisp : WILLO
58
Genesis man : PELEG
60
___-cat (game) : ONEA
62
Roguish : ARCH
63
Emperor : NERO
65
Attack craft: Abbr. : MTB
66
Brahman title : AYA
67
Hickory-stick initials : RRR
68
Swiss river : AAR
70
Teacher's ___ : PET

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 8 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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