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Elaine D. Schorr
Elaine D. Schorr

New York Times, Thursday, April 7, 1977

15-Down : Napery locale

Author:
Elaine D. Schorr
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 66, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 5.48, Missing: { J K Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 242 (avg 1.34)
Open Squares: 61, Cheaters: 20, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8
Elaine D. Schorr has 49 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,099
Across
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Make it big : GOFAR
6
Groups of devotees : CULTS
11
Shade of red : CERISE
12
"___ Grecian Urn" : ODEONA
14
Court-case testifier : MATERIALWITNESS
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___ poetica : ARS
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Peregrines : ALIENS
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Medieval shield : ECU
20
Choke up : CLOG
22
Dictator's phrase : INRE
23
Hudson Bay Indian : CREE
24
Trumpeter's blooper : SOURNOTE
27
Provided for a spell : LENT
28
Kind of wheel or gear : STEERING
30
Waistline nip-ins : DARTS
31
Missile fronts : NOSECONES
33
Indian or Arctic : OCEAN
36
Drooped the shoulders : SLOUCHED
39
Tijuana Brass : BAND
40
Little openings : OSTIOLES
42
Gardner : ERLE
43
Gaelic : ERSE
45
Woman, to a lawyer : FEME
46
One's self: Fr. : SOI
47
Legal presentations : BRIEFS
49
___ Veneto : VIA
50
Forest ranger's tower : OBSERVATIONPOST
54
Passage off Gibraltar : STRAIT
55
Novelist Laurence ___ : STERNE
56
City near Florence : SIENA
57
Rail riders : HOBOS
Down
1
Issues, as a publication : GETSOUT
2
Underground find : ORE
3
Evergreen : FIR
4
___ Minor : ASIA
5
The naked truths : REALITIES
6
Shrink in fear : COWER
7
Trieste's neighbor : UDINE
8
Inviting word : LETS
9
Bon ___ : TON
10
Derisive one : SNEERER
11
"Don ___" Verdi opera : CARLOS
13
Way up : ASCENT
14
Some apples : MACS
15
Napery locale : LINENCLOSET
16
Tallow ingredients : SUETS
21
Missile : GRENADE
23
"Comedy is the ___ character": Yeats : CLASHOF
25
Kind of sign : NEON
26
Correlatives : ORS
29
Large-mouthed marine denizen : GOOSEFISH
30
Tenth part: Comb. form : DECI
32
Filbert : NUT
33
Fat, in Florence : OBESO
34
Locust beans : CAROBS
35
Signs on : ENLISTS
37
Airplane control surfaces : ELEVONS
38
The end of it all : DEMISE
41
Put in office : SEAT
43
Sam from N.C. : ERVIN
44
It's kept on a pommel : RIATA
47
Hill, in Aberdeen : BRAE
48
"And ___ bed" : SOTO
51
Silkworm : ERI
52
Bird's beak : NEB
53
N.F.L. player : PRO

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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