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Jean J. Davison
Jean J. Davison

New York Times, Monday, May 8, 1978

52-Down : Niggling

Author:
Jean J. Davison
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.76, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 61, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Jean J. Davison has 62 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,495
Across
1
Niche : SLOT
5
Wise legislator : SOLON
10
Coast Guard woman : SPAR
14
Series of legends : SAGA
15
Treasure ___ : TROVE
16
Prefix for scope or vision : TELE
17
Feds : TMEN
18
Consumer : EATER
19
Traitors : RATS
20
Insignificant : BENEATHNOTICE
23
That girl, in Lyon : ELLE
24
River rising in Silesia : ODER
25
Pot fragment : SHARD
28
Walloped, Biblically speaking : SMOTE
31
Prefix with firm and form : CON
32
Spring festival : EASTER
35
Space agcy. : NASA
39
Suffering from a hangover : UNDERTHEWEATHER
42
Greenish blue : TEAL
43
Candle wax : TALLOW
44
A feast ___ famine : ORA
45
Type of hydrometer scale : BAUME
47
Hitler's "pure race" : ARYAN
49
Sufficient, in olden times : ENOW
51
Church sector : APSE
53
Shabby : DOWNATTHEHEEL
59
Prefix with precious or annual : SEMI
60
Proofreader's mark : CARET
61
Opposite of a hit : FLOP
63
Warning : OMEN
64
Dutch ___ : TREAT
65
Birthright seller : ESAU
66
Big ___ (universe-origin theory) : BANG
67
Debilitated : SEEDY
68
Landlord's concern : RENT
Down
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Controversial aircraft : SST
2
Elia was his alias : LAMB
3
Crossword arch : OGEE
4
Leatherworker : TANNER
5
Have sticky fingers : STEAL
6
Emulate Bryan : ORATE
7
Unwilling: Var. : LOTH
8
Kiln : OVEN
9
Famous fiddler : NERO
10
Shrill : STRIDENT
11
U.N. concern : PEACE
12
Change : ALTER
13
Legal thing : RES
21
One of Susanna's accusers : ELDER
22
Child : TOT
25
Rabbit's tail : SCUT
26
Sharpen : HONE
27
"On a wing ___ prayer" : ANDA
28
Stone slab : STELE
29
Whimper : MEWL
30
Mountain: Comb. form : OREO
33
Westernmost of the Aleutians : ATTU
34
Fake : SHAM
36
"Land ___!" : AHOY
37
Wheys : SERA
38
Irish island group : ARAN
40
Rush-hour rudeness : ELBOWING
41
Flooded : AWASH
46
Bristle : AWN
48
Close-fitting jacket : REEFER
49
Swelling : EDEMA
50
Roman's second name : NOMEN
51
In the van : AHEAD
52
Niggling : PETTY
54
___ up (has a tantrum) : ACTS
55
Counterweight : TARE
56
Olive or pear : TREE
57
"Or ___ swoon to death": Keats : ELSE
58
Kind of shark : LOAN
59
Weep convulsively : SOB
62
___ up with (tolerate) : PUT

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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