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Ann Jenkins
Ann Jenkins

New York Times, Wednesday, April 5, 1978

12-Down : Hollywood hopeful

Author:
Ann Jenkins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33, Avg Word Len: 5.33, Missing: { H J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 263 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Ann Jenkins has 23 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,462
Across
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Stampede participants : STEERS
7
Cauthen's mounts : RACERS
13
Shred roughly : TEARUP
14
Word in a Gallic motto : EGALITE
16
Fashion designer from France : CASSINI
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Milieu of the Swiss Guard : VATICAN
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Pre-deal pot contents : ANTES
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Otto minus cinque : TRE
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Originate : START
22
Rhoda's mom et al. : IDAS
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Blazing : AFIRE
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Perry's creator : ERLE
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Groove : RUT
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Corn, to a hog : ALIMENT
29
German article : DER
30
Order to gunners : OPENFIRE
32
Old-line Mass. family : CABOTS
34
Press on : URGE
35
"My kingdom ___ horse!" : FORA
36
Package for 200 cigarettes : CARTON
39
Tinderbox : FIRETRAP
43
Paean to Billy Joe : ODE
44
Nailed down : SECURED
46
One of Jolie's girls : EVA
47
Pompons : MUMS
49
Marchers since F.D.R.'s day : DIMES
50
Kind of cheese : BLEU
51
Take the money and run, à la Jessica : ELOPE
53
Bill or beak : NEB
54
Jurymen : PEERS
55
Undid knitting : RAVELED
57
Roil : AGITATE
59
He found Livingstone : STANLEY
60
Woolly : LANOSE
61
Venerated townsmen : ELDERS
62
Gave a stake, in bankers' terms : LOANED
Down
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Wear well : STANDUP
2
Having left a valid will : TESTATE
3
Comforts : EASES
4
Goddess of strife : ERIS
5
Take to one's heels : RUN
6
Hot-tempered one : SPITFIRE
7
Rider on April 16, 1775 : REVERE
8
___ Khan IV : AGA
9
Hep ones : CATS
10
Top-drawer socialites : ELITE
11
Montalban from Mexico : RICARDO
12
Hollywood hopeful : STARLET
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Gains access : ENTERS
16
City on the Nile's east bank : CAIRO
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Nature's icy coating : RIME
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Put in kilter : ALIGNED
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Responses to some applause : ENCORES
27
Some hair styles : AFROS
28
Weighed, in a way : TARED
31
Hard-shelled fruit : NUT
33
Club for Reggie Jackson : BAT
35
Bright meteor : FIREBALL
36
Industrious tyros : COMERS
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Follow slavishly : ADULATE
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A taking away : REMOVAL
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Give off vapor : FUME
40
Unfetter : RELEASE
41
Warded off : AVERTED
42
Hesitate : PAUSE
45
Actress Williams et al. : CINDYS
48
Exhaust : SPEND
50
Back with greenbacks : BETON
52
French women's magazine : ELLE
54
___ colada, rum drink : PINA
56
Suffix for pamphlet or sonnet : EER
58
Town on the Niger : GAO

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

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