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Jean J. Davison
Jean J. Davison

New York Times, Wednesday, April 22, 1981

4-Down : Track attraction

Author:
Jean J. Davison
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { J K Q V X }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Jean J. Davison has 62 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,488
Across
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Is adjacent to : ABUTS
6
Small flounder : DAB
9
Liquidate Darth Vader : ZAP
12
Use a Jacuzzi : BATHE
13
Dyed rabbit fur : CONY
14
Sped : TORE
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In ___ (agitated) : ASTEW
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Status of the Colosseum : RUIN
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Turgenev's birthplace : OREL
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Even : TIED
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Like underhanded advertising : SUBLIMINAL
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Carpentry, e.g. : CRAFT
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Licit : LEGAL
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Teed off : IRATE
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Psychic, at times : HEALER
30
Carved slab : STELA
33
Strigine sound : HOOT
35
Blue or White body : NILE
36
Salvers : TRAYS
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Cause supported by Maureen Reagan : ERA
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Secretary of Interior: 1961-69 : UDALL
39
Animal fat : LARD
40
Domestic retreats : DENS
41
Err : STRAY
42
Vote no : OPPOSE
44
Different : OTHER
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Incompetent : UNFIT
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Espouse : ADOPT
51
Scarlet pimpernels : EYEBRIGHTS
55
Relating to: Suffix : ULAR
57
Give each player a hand : DEAL
58
Inter ___ : ALIA
59
Degrade : ABASE
60
Paris RR station : GARE
61
"___ but the brave ... " : NONE
62
Type of type : ELITE
63
Ending with east or west : ERN
64
Dress, with "up" : TOG
65
Wined and dined : FETED
Down
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Like ___ out of hell : ABAT
2
Fundamental : BASIC
3
Speak : UTTER
4
Track attraction : THEDAILYDOUBLE
5
Backstitch : SEW
6
Gambler's all-out plunge : DOUBLEORNOTHING
7
Old-womanish : ANILE
8
" ... where ignorant armies clash ___": Arnold : BYNIGHT
9
Seattle's QB : ZORN
10
Range : AREA
11
Senator from R.I. : PELL
13
French vineyard : CRU
14
Phrase used by Macbeth's witches : TOILANDTROUBLE
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As written: Mus. dir. : STA
20
Marsh or Murray : MAE
22
Monastery group : FRAS
25
"Utah, We Love ___," state song : THEE
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Fibber : LIAR
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Fitzgerald : ELLA
29
Depend : RELY
30
Town on the Vire : STLO
31
Light carriage : TRAP
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Wyatt, the lawman : EARP
34
Hot spot in a brewery : OAST
38
Secondhand : USED
40
Rebellious : DEFIANT
43
Last year's jr. : SNR
45
Owns : HAS
47
Arctic abode : IGLOO
49
Braid : PLAIT
50
Sample : TASTE
51
Rim : EDGE
52
Unit in many a sentence : YEAR
53
Merit : EARN
54
Monogram of a Menlo Park man : TAE
56
Oboe, e.g. : REED
59
Pershing's trps : AEF

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3 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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