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Harriet Gilson Rosenberg
Harriet Gilson Rosenberg

New York Times, Tuesday, April 29, 1975

27-Down : Deception

Author:
Harriet Gilson Rosenberg
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { J Q W X }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Harriet Gilson Rosenberg has 24 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,390
Across
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Priestly capes : ALBS
5
Common Latin word : AMAS
9
Fowl maneuver : PECK
13
Covering, for short : TARP
14
Speech difficulty : LISP
15
Wing-shaped : ALARY
17
"___ and out" : OVER
18
Too : ALSO
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Repetitions : REDOS
20
Voltaire's "___ the Babylonian" : ZADIG
22
___ of corn : EAR
23
Chemical compound : AMINE
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Glutton : GOURMANDIZER
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"He that ___ and runs ... " : FIGHTS
30
Kind of hard : DIE
31
Detest : LOATHE
32
Kind of bone or pocket : HIP
33
Coolidge et al. : CALS
37
Indigos : ANILS
38
Twitching : TIC
39
Salad-oil bottle : CRUET
40
"___ are the hearts ... " : MANY
41
___ poetica : ARS
42
Brownish color : SIENNA
43
Bar offering : ALE
44
Hindu incarnation : AVATAR
45
Glutton's credo : NEVERSAYDIET
51
Unusual people : ONERS
52
French coin : SOU
53
Piano expert : TUNER
57
Famous Jules : VERNE
58
Music-makers : UKES
60
Stray : ROVE
61
Eve or Enoch : ARDEN
62
Network : RETE
63
Blade : EPEE
64
River in France : OISE
65
Miss Lanchester : ELSA
66
Vassal : SERF
Down
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From ___ (all the way) : ATOZ
2
Etna product : LAVA
3
Engendered : BRED
4
Animated : SPRIGHTLY
5
King or carte : ALA
6
Liquori or Ryun : MILER
7
Indian state : ASSAM
8
Occasional : SPORADIC
9
Circus send-off : PARADE
10
Perfume resin : ELEMI
11
Spanish port : CADIZ
12
Danish coin : KRONE
16
River to North Sea : YSER
21
Alaric's people : GOTHS
25
"___ no hooks" : USE
26
Tuck's partner : NIP
27
Deception : FLAM
28
Hebrides island : IONA
29
Do well, as a stock : GAIN
32
Possessive : HIS
33
"All ___ great and small" : CREATURES
34
Family member : AUNT
35
Soviet river : LENA
36
Nova, for one : STAR
38
Stevenson's island : TREASURE
39
Catlike animal : CIVET
41
Capp and Smith : ALS
42
Capuchin monkey : SAI
43
Lupin of crime fiction : ARSENE
45
___ Scotia : NOVA
46
Spanish month : ENERO
47
Famous Giuseppe : VERDI
48
Sea eagles : ERNES
49
Bumpkin : YOKEL
50
Four-hand piano pieces : DUETS
54
Relative of nix : NOPE
55
Constantly : EVER
56
Great Barrier, for one : REEF
59
Marmara, for one : SEA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 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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