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Virginia Butler
Virginia Butler

New York Times, Tuesday, June 3, 1975

28-Down : Little brown item

Author:
Virginia Butler
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { K V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Virginia Butler has 22 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,425
Across
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Sleep stopper : ALARM
6
Gather : REAP
10
Creases, in France : PLIS
14
Erich ___ Remarque : MARIA
15
Delineate : ETCH
16
Lacoste of tennis : RENE
17
Dog, at times : BITER
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Hemp with a wallop : MARIJUANA
20
Spiritless : INANIMATE
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Beginning : ONSET
23
Lends a hand : AIDS
24
Swerves : SHEERS
25
Charlotte or Emily : BRONTE
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Gen. Smuts : JAN
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"Potting Shed" author : GREENE
30
Writer e. e. : CUMMINGS
35
Attach again : RETIE
36
Soak, old style : SOG
37
Revere : ADORE
38
Nobleman: Ger. : EDELMANN
40
"___ in the deep" : ASLEEP
41
Noun suffix : ORY
42
Hard : STEELY
43
Echo : PARROT
47
Recipe expert : CHEF
48
___-propre : AMOUR
49
Famous hunchback : QUASIMODO
54
Dante and Christina : ROSSETTIS
56
Type of seal : EARED
57
Deplaned : ALIT
58
Attention-getting sound : HIST
59
Guanaco : LLAMA
60
Receives : SEES
61
Hebrew measure : EPHA
62
Takes out : DELES
Down
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Prefix for valent : AMBI
2
Rested : LAIN
3
Gulf of Ionian Sea : ARTA
4
Nothing, in France : RIEN
5
U.S. poet and baseball fan : MARIANNEMOORE
6
Did over : REMADE
7
___ Unis : ETATS
8
"God's Little ___" : ACRE
9
Greek letter : PHI
10
Do tree surgery : PRUNE
11
Rent : LEASE
12
Circle or tube : INNER
13
Hot and driver's : SEATS
19
Poet and sea lover : JOHNMASEFIELD
21
Bit : MITE
24
Houston : SAM
25
Born and ___ : BRED
26
Network : RETE
27
French eye : OEIL
28
Little brown item : JUG
29
Accord, in Paris : GRE
30
Swindle : CON
31
Vain : IDLE
32
Coward : NOEL
33
Zane or Jane : GREY
34
Month: Abbr. : SEP
36
Curve of a ship's plank : SNY
39
Verb with thou : ART
40
Sweetsop : ATES
42
Large daisy : SHASTA
43
Turkish coins : PARAS
44
Soap plant : AMOLE
45
Miss O'Grady : ROSIE
46
Corrodes : RUSTS
47
Armor piece: Var. : CUISH
49
Infant-care aid : QTIP
50
"The ___ Animal" : MALE
51
Spoken : ORAL
52
Greek district : DEME
53
Harem rooms : ODAS
55
Article : THE

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

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