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Jeanette K. Brill
Jeanette K. Brill

New York Times, Thursday, May 29, 1986

6-Down : Deficient in mental grasp

Author:
Jeanette K. Brill
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { F J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 242 (avg 1.29)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Jeanette K. Brill has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,351
Across
1
Border on : ABUT
5
Catalogue : LIST
9
Redact : EDIT
13
Italian painter: 1575-1642 : RENI
14
Subsequently : SINCE
15
Turkish coin : LIRA
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Jumble : MESS
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Alaskan highway : ALCAN
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An uncle of Joseph : ESAU
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Postulate : POSIT
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Footstools : OTTOMANS
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Early 20th-century French art style : PURISM
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Ogled : EYED
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Gladden : CHEERUP
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He wrote "Leaving on a Jet Plane" : DENVER
30
The Greatest : ALI
31
Sibyls : SEERS
33
Dated : STALE
34
Door fastener : HASP
36
Dutch genre painter: 17th century : STEEN
38
State of agitation : SNIT
39
Russian workers' cooperative : ARTEL
41
Flat baking tin : SHEET
43
Digit : TOE
44
Lebanon's capital : BEIRUT
46
Beg : ENTREAT
48
"___ fan tutte," Mozart opera : COSI
49
Observer's activity : NOTING
50
Race officials : STARTERS
53
Also-ran : LOSER
55
Jot : IOTA
56
Reach by radio : RAISE
58
Chits : IOUS
60
French violinist: 18th century : ANET
61
Young eel : ELVER
62
Full of juice : LUSH
63
Native of Ecbatana : MEDE
64
Barasingh, e.g. : DEER
65
A Borgia in-law : ESTE
Down
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Weapon : ARM
2
Horn signal : BEEP
3
Ingenuous : UNSOPHISTICATED
4
Kind of paper : TISSUE
5
West role : LIL
6
Deficient in mental grasp : INCOMPREHENSIVE
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Ella's forte : SCAT
8
Sheltered, in a way : TENTED
9
Wolfram and selenium : ELEMENTS
10
Unfavorable : DISADVANTAGEOUS
11
Teheran is its capital : IRAN
12
Greek letters : TAUS
14
Works like Butler's "Erewhon" : SATIRES
20
Angers : IRES
22
Hear ye! : OYES
24
Certain fats : SUETS
26
Cartoonist Briggs : CLARE
28
Author of "The Hollow Men" : ELIOT
29
Neural network : RETE
30
A king of Israel : AHAB
32
"___ evil ... " : SEENO
35
Declaim : PERORATE
37
Provoking person : NETTLER
40
"___ for Life": I. Stone : LUST
42
Ramsey Lewis, e.g. : TRIO
45
Like a stadium : TIERED
47
Store fodder : ENSILE
50
Tuptim's land : SIAM
51
Resiliency : TONE
52
Anagram for real : RALE
54
Corrode : RUST
57
Sun. talk : SER
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"Ain't ___ Sweet?" : SHE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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