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Louise Earnest
Louise Earnest

New York Times, Friday, July 2, 1982

25-Down : Lent's ___ days

Author:
Louise Earnest
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.37, Missing: { J K Q W X }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 86, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Louise Earnest has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,924
Across
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Tibetan worshiper : LAMAIST
8
Waterfall : CASCADE
15
Sid's sidekick, once : IMOGENE
16
Supervise : OVERSEE
17
Yellowish-brown hues : LOUTRES
18
Updating : REVISAL
19
Indian rice : AUS
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___ impasse : ATAN
22
Kind of board : EMERY
23
Top of the line : CREMEDELACREME
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Actor Selleck : TOM
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Decorator's verb : REDO
29
Locust pod : CAROB
31
Rambling : SCATTERED
37
Speedily : APACE
38
Flavoring seed : ANISE
39
Words differently : REPHRASES
44
Shed : HOVEL
45
Galvanizing material : ZINC
46
Violinist Bull : OLE
47
The very best : SALTOFTHEEARTH
54
Rembrandt's "___ Trees" : THREE
55
Bender : TOOT
56
Cupped item : BRA
57
Hodgepodge : MELANGE
59
Lighter fluid, of a sort : LAMPOIL
62
Garment worker : PRESSER
63
Unsettle : AGITATE
64
Segments of sonnets : SESTETS
65
Has bearing on : RELATES
Down
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Syringa : LILAC
2
"Hiroshima Mon ___," 1959 film : AMOUR
3
Long-running Christie play, with "The" : MOUSETRAP
4
Realtor: Abbr. : AGT
5
Letters in back of front : IER
6
J.C. of golf : SNEAD
7
Canopies over beds : TESTERS
8
Matador's wound : CORNADA
9
Pennsylvania, in D.C. : AVE
10
Divide : SEVER
11
Nonpaying activity : CRIME
12
Gather, as in a hall: Abbr. : ASSEM
13
Mary ___, ship in an Innes work : DEARE
14
Hard to grasp : EELY
21
Actor Clunes : ALEC
24
Sponge; cadge : MOOCH
25
Lent's ___ days : EMBER
26
Bunkhouse bunk : COT
29
Duryea, e.g. : CAR
30
Mimic : APE
32
Truckee source : TAHOE
33
Town NW of Harrisburg : ENOLA
34
Twain transport : RIVERBOAT
35
Suffix with journal : ESE
36
Second smallest of the U.S.A. : DEL
40
Kind of dye : AZO
41
Bakery utensils : SIFTERS
42
Within: Comb. form : ENTO
43
Academician : SCHOLAR
47
___ Khan, Kipling tiger : SHERE
48
City on the Rhone : ARLES
49
Minimal : LEAST
50
Future perfect, e.g. : TENSE
51
Building level, in France : ETAGE
52
Timeworn : TRITE
53
Summons to court : HALES
54
Therm. recordings : TMPS
58
"___ lost!" : GET
60
Former Palestinian coin : MIL
61
Harper Valley org. : PTA

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

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