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Ann Jenkins
Ann Jenkins

New York Times, Thursday, July 28, 1977

39-Down : Man-to-man, in basketball

Author:
Ann Jenkins
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { F J K Q X }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Ann Jenkins has 23 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,211
Across
1
Redolence : AROMA
6
Powder base : TALC
10
Throaty sound : RASP
14
Fanatical : RABID
15
Oily spread : OLEO
16
Water vessel : EWER
17
Simple task : CHILDSPLAY
19
Cause to be jaded : SATE
20
Epithet for Adenauer : ALTE
21
___ a judge (temperate) : SOBERAS
23
Device for sorting eggs : GRADER
26
Swaps again : RETRADES
27
Actor Calhoun : RORY
28
Gallic friend : AMI
30
Poetic word : EER
31
Disciple's emotion : AWE
32
Put on ___ (pretend) : ANACT
34
___ des Beaux-Arts, in Paris : ECOLE
38
41
George Ade's "Fables in ___" : SLANG
42
Start of a toast : HERES
43
Area: Comb. form : ZON
44
Infinite ages : EON
46
His or her, in Hérault : SES
47
Isolated plateau : MESA
48
Farceur : HUMORIST
52
Suit in a deck : SPADES
54
"What's ___?" : INANAME
55
Famed ethnologist: 1858-1942 : BOAS
56
Resort near Venice : LIDO
57
Product of mental labor : BRAINCHILD
62
Actor Rip ___ : TORN
63
Layer of the iris : UVEA
64
Waterfowl : EIDER
65
Dagger of yore : SNEE
66
Sixty make a min. : SECS
67
Substantial : MEATY
Down
1
Curve : ARC
2
"Well done, team!" : RAH
3
Geisha's girdle : OBI
4
Woman of fashion : MILADY
5
Befuddle : ADDLE
6
Bend an elbow too often : TOPE
7
"You're ___ I Need" (old song) : ALL
8
Charter; hire : LEASE
9
South Dakota, the ___ State : COYOTE
10
Dig up data for a thesis : RESEARCH
11
Oscar or Tony : AWARD
12
Plants' coarse hairs : SETAE
13
One kind of release : PRESS
18
Leave high and dry : STRAND
22
Equine strains : BREEDS
23
Whitman's "Leaves of ___" : GRASS
24
Disk on a spur : ROWEL
25
Betel palm : ARECA
26
Most opulent : RICHEST
29
Sound-barrier word : MACH
32
Good source of mohair : ANGORA
33
Wear down : TIRE
35
Exuded : OOZED
36
Free : LOOSE
37
Ferber and Millay : EDNAS
39
Man-to-man, in basketball : ONEONONE
40
Session with a club pro : LESSON
45
Halo : NIMBUS
47
Golfer's No. 5 iron : MASHIE
48
Handles for swordsmen : HILTS
49
Alliance : UNION
50
Matriarch, in Madrid : MADRE
51
One of Evert's fortes : SERVE
53
Pope John's "___ in Terris" : PACEM
55
Seamstress's diagonal cut : BIAS
58
Nuclear-energy org. : AEC
59
Mount in Crete : IDA
60
Allow : LET
61
Boring : DRY

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

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