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Jean Reed
Jean Reed

New York Times, Friday, June 6, 1980

12-Down : Period between certain quarters

Author:
Jean Reed
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Jean Reed has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,168
Across
1
Exclamations : AHAS
5
Part of a dress or mine : SEAM
9
Former Algerian cavalryman : SPAHI
14
Pelf : LOOT
15
Gardner : ERLE
16
Famed violinist : ELMAN
17
Word form before dollar or mart : EURO
18
Danish-American reformer: 1849-1914 : RIIS
19
Side of a quarter : TAILS
20
Factitious diamond footing : ARTIFICIALTURF
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Hackney coach : FIACRE
24
Takes to court : SUES
25
Pelion's partner : OSSA
28
Thirteen, at bridge : TRICKS
32
Philosopher who taught at Columbia : EDMAN
36
" ... baked in ___" : APIE
38
Cheese from France : BRIE
39
Diamond dramatics : GRANDSTANDPLAYS
42
Fort Knox contents : GOLD
43
Idler's anathema : WORK
44
Scholarship high school in N.Y.C. : REGIS
45
Flowering shrub : SPIREA
47
Catechumen : TYRO
49
"Don't tread ___" : ONME
51
Epoch of the mammal : EOCENE
56
Diamond altruism : SACRIFICEFLIES
60
Picasso : PABLO
61
One of Omar's three wishes : LOAF
62
Caesar's worst day : IDES
63
Chassis items : AXLES
64
Opposite of post : ANTE
65
"One man's ___ is another man's Persian" : MEDE
66
Lyrical Lizette : REESE
67
Rip : TEAR
68
___ Mawr : BRYN
Down
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" ... we all do fade as ___": Isa. : ALEAF
2
Nymph for a Moslem in Paradise : HOURI
3
Main artery : AORTA
4
Impassive : STOIC
5
Diamond classic : SERIES
6
The Red : ERIC
7
Et ___ : ALII
8
Tabletop hills : MESAS
9
Dog for a nimrod : SETTER
10
Seemingly true : PLAUSIBLE
11
Herat bigwig : AMIR
12
Period between certain quarters : HALF
13
Outs' antitheses : INS
21
Fern feature : FROND
22
Sealed, as a pipe joint : LUTED
26
Prime Minister in Tokyo: 1964-72 : SATO
27
Notwithstanding, with "from" : APART
29
Rock face : CRAG
30
Yelp like a dog : KIYI
31
Mtg. : SESS
32
Roe : EGGS
33
Part of a dose : DROP
34
Neighbor of Niger : MALI
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Lion tamer of legend : ANDROCLES
37
Black : INKY
40
Hindu holy man : SWAMI
41
Suffix with fool or weather : PROOF
46
"La Vie ___" : ENROSE
48
Joint or jacket : REEFER
50
Keynote for Elgar : EFLAT
52
Go up : CLIMB
53
Kind of down : EIDER
54
Impoverished : NEEDY
55
Krupp's spot : ESSEN
56
Grayish blue : SAXE
57
Habile : ABLE
58
Calif. geological formation : IONE
59
Down: Prefix : CATA
60
___ avion : PAR

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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