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Jean J. Davison
Jean J. Davison

New York Times, Saturday, March 21, 1981

14-Down : Breakfast cereal

Author:
Jean J. Davison
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 46, Avg Word Len: 4.71, Missing: { J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 244 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 55, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Jean J. Davison has 62 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,456
Across
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Married man's septennial problem : ITCH
5
Exterminates : RIDS
9
This may figure in an hourglass figure : STAY
13
Snooks, to Brice : ROLE
14
Staten Island or Dobbs : FERRY
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Beyond the ___ : PALE
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Kanten : AGAR
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Subject of many a Truffaut film : AMOUR
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News item : OBIT
19
First line of an equinoctial verse : NOWSPRINGISDUE
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Little island : AIT
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Jackie Onassis, ___ Bouvier : NEE
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Foulard spoiler : STAIN
27
Incarcerate : CAGE
29
Golf org. : PGA
32
Second line of verse : TISNATURESPLAN
35
Dumbbell : DOLT
36
Org. in "Odd Man Out" : IRA
37
These may be wild : OATS
38
Third line of verse : PLEASETELLITTO
43
Disconsolate : SAD
44
Cainan was his son : ENOS
45
Bury : INTER
46
You can have a blast with this : TNT
47
Department at D.C. : AGR
48
End of verse : THATWEATHERMAN
56
Brilliant stroke : COUP
57
Metal mold : INGOT
58
Let out, as in sewing : EASE
59
Prompt : URGE
60
Petioles : STEMS
61
"Song of India," e.g. : ARIA
62
Textile worker : DYER
63
Where she had bells : TOES
64
"___ we forget" : LEST
Down
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Adversary of Iraq : IRAN
2
Neighbor of Ghana : TOGO
3
Tooth's partner : CLAW
4
Towel marking : HERS
5
Moderate : REMIT
6
Press : IRON
7
Stupefy : DRUG
8
Otologist's device : SYRINGE
9
Fine porcelain : SPODE
10
Freud's "Totem und ___" : TABU
11
"I cannot tell ___" : ALIE
12
Still : YET
14
Breakfast cereal : FARINA
20
French bread : PAIN
21
Understands : SEES
24
Roman woman's garb : STOLA
25
Like some showers : TILED
26
Nick Charles's dog : ASTA
27
Panaceas : CURES
28
Lake bordering Uzbekistan : ARAL
29
Carlton Fisk guards it : PLATE
30
U. of Florida athlete : GATOR
31
Suburb of Liège : ANS
33
Late Yugoslav leader : TITO
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A size of paper : POTT
35
Emigrés, e.g. : DPS
39
Dispatched : SENT
40
Tangle : ENTWIST
41
Traffic signals : LIGHTS
42
Concerning : INRE
46
Thin candle : TAPER
47
Basic units of matter : ATOMS
48
Whig's opponent : TORY
49
Enormous : HUGE
50
Within: Comb. form : ENTO
51
U.S. author: 1909-55 : AGEE
52
Genuine : REAL
53
Filly's mother : MARE
54
Sale words : ASIS
55
Straight from the bottle : NEAT
56
Something chewed on a pasture : CUD

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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