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Harriet Gilson Rosenberg
Harriet Gilson Rosenberg

New York Times, Saturday, August 14, 1976

27-Down : Land of the shamrock

Author:
Harriet Gilson Rosenberg
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 291 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 61, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Harriet Gilson Rosenberg has 24 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,863
Across
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King or Edward : LEAR
5
Name for a field dog : SHEP
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Knightly titles : SIRS
13
Miss Andrews : JULIE
14
Mountain lion : PUMA
15
"It's ___ one on me" : ANEW
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Fire or burglar : ALARM
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Beast of burden, in Bonn : ESEL
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Kind of skirt : MINI
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Unscientific procedure : RULEOFTHUMB
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___ god : TIN
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Successful-show sign : SRO
24
Picnic : OUTING
26
Do mending : SEW
29
Refresher : SPOTOFTEA
33
Family member : NIECE
35
Man's name : ROLF
36
Impress upon : ETCH
39
Irish cry : ARRA
40
Explosive: Abbr. : TNA
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Whitewall : TIRE
42
Actor Will : GEER
43
Kind of boat : SHOW
44
Blacksmith : SHOER
45
Masterpiece : WORKOFART
48
___-Nazi : NEO
49
Tennis star of 1960's : STOLLE
51
Hawk parrot : HIA
53
Bother : AIL
54
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Praise wildly : RAVE
63
Gang : CREW
64
Raid : FORAY
65
Greek god : ARES
66
Roll-call answer : HERE
67
Gladden : ELATE
68
Fastener : HASP
69
Edible tubers : YAMS
70
Hawaiian goose : NENE
Down
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Pip : LULU
2
Israeli airline : ELAL
3
Buenos ___ : AIRES
4
Compunction : REMORSE
5
Small barracuda : SPET
6
Quiet! : HUSH
7
Flightless bird : EMEU
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Dispose of by trickery : PALMOFF
9
Houston : SAM
10
Kind of fee : INITIATION
11
Kidney enzyme : RENIN
12
"___ low, sweet ... " : SWING
13
Cookies' place : JAR
20
Dandy : FOP
21
Only : BUT
25
Molars : TEETH
26
Fisherman's bane : SNAG
27
Land of the shamrock : EIRE
28
Folklore creatures : WEREWOLVES
30
Prefix for dox or pedic : ORTHO
31
Like a ___ bricks : TONOF
32
River to the Oder : OLAWA
34
Joyous song : CAROL
37
American Indian : CREE
38
Kind of sandwich : HERO
43
Incomplete : SKETCHY
44
Add starch : STIFFEN
46
Literary initials : RLS
47
Greek letter : RHO
49
Miss Miles : SARAH
50
Headwear : TIARA
52
Soap plant : AMOLE
55
___ code : AREA
56
Tenure : TERM
57
Farm animals : EWES
58
Oil country : IRAN
59
Archibald of basketball : NATE
60
Color : DYE
62
Particularly: Abbr. : ESP

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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