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Maura B. Jacobson
Maura B. Jacobson

New York Times, Friday, May 14, 1976

18-Down : Let out, as fishline

Author:
Maura B. Jacobson
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { F Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 290 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Maura B. Jacobson has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,771
Across
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"I never ___ purple cow" : SAWA
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Verbal rubbish : BILGE
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Tattle : TELL
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Sevareid : ERIC
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Eye parts : UVEAS
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"Essays of ___" : ELIA
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Encroached : IMPINGED
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Storks' relatives : HERONS
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Slave Scott : DRED
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Fountain order : COLA
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Go ___ (deteriorate) : TOSEED
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Russell or Powell : JANE
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Time initials : CST
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" ... live as cheaply ___" : ASONE
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Indira's robe : SARI
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Top-notch : AONE
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Does work on a doily : TATS
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Bishoprics : SEES
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Dispossess : EVICT
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After mock or crock : ERY
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Boer town : STAD
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Atelier garb : SMOCKS
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Copied : APED
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Senate faction : BLOC
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Better ventilated : AIRIER
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Tolerable : BEARABLE
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Actor Jannings : EMIL
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Ladd film : SHANE
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Miss Bagnold : ENID
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Borge, for one : DANE
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King and Hong : KONGS
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Cub Scout units : DENS
Down
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Half: Prefix : SEMI
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Thomas Hood hero : ARAM
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Fragment : WISP
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Highway statistics : ACCIDENTS
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Protruded : BULGED
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Covered with vines : IVIED
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___ a hand : LEND
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Proceed, Scottish style : GAE
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Neighbor of Latvia: Var. : ESTHONIA
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Earth, to Caesar : TERRA
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Nevada city : ELKO
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Mortgage : LIEN
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Minstrel poems : LAYS
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Let out, as fishline : UNREEL
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Congo river : UELE
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Grant et al. : CARYS
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Discernment : TASTE
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Hollywood plum : OSCAR
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Begrimed : SOOTY
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Blasé : JADED
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Kind of strip : COMIC
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Tidbit : SNACK
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Khayyám products : TENTS
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Golf V.I.P. : SNEAD
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Supported : ADVOCATED
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Reference symbol : ASTERISK
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Shark passenger : REMORA
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Graf ___ : SPEE
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Election lists : SLATES
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Bride's milieu : AISLE
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Human or time : BEING
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Executed a tennis coup : ACED
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"___ Camera" : IAMA
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Partner of wrack : RUIN
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Grain husk : BRAN
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Spiral stem : BINE
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Meat cut : LOIN
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Pass catchers : ENDS
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After pi : RHO

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 2 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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