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Maura B. Jacobson
Maura B. Jacobson

New York Times, Thursday, September 11, 1975

28-Down : Artifices

Author:
Maura B. Jacobson
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { F J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 12, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8 Grid has duplicate clues.
Maura B. Jacobson has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,525
Across
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___ soda : CLUB
5
Bitter : ACERB
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Like a highball glass : TALL
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___-my-thumb : HOPO
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Shave a sheep : SHEAR
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Bread spread : OLEO
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Of the ear : OTIC
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Drinks : MANHATTANS
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Drink : PINKLADY
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___ hand (close by) : NEARAT
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Drink emporiums : BARS
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Nabokov lady et al. : ADAS
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Ad astra per ___ : ASPERA
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Drinks : WHISKIES
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Tatter : SHRED
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Lady love: Fr. : AIMEE
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Gordon Mac___ : RAE
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Caen evening : SOIR
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Red color, in heraldry : GULES
37
Hostile emotion : HATE
38
Drink : ALE
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Waited for : BIDED
40
Drinks : WINES
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Drinks : MARTINIS
43
Diva Resnik : REGINA
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___ many words : INSO
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Rachel's sister : LEAH
46
Corkscrew shape : SPIRAL
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Drinks : BOURBONS
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Drinks : CUBALIBRES
55
Celebes ox : ANOA
56
Droughty : ARID
57
Racket : NOISE
58
Onion's relative : LEEK
59
Ballfield feature : BASE
60
___ over (whitewash) : GLOSS
61
Put on cargo : LADE
Down
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Short tennis stroke : CHOP
2
French novelist : LOTI
3
___ arms (indignant) : UPIN
4
Drink : BOCKBEER
5
Eritrea's capital : ASMARA
6
Actor Everett et al. : CHADS
7
Counting-out word : EENY
8
Cheerleader's word : RAH
9
Drinks : BRANDIES
10
Take ___ (reprove) : TOTASK
11
Winged : ALAR
12
Siberian river : LENA
13
Flubbed the game : LOST
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Harass : TEASE
21
Relative of suet : LARD
24
Ottoman sultan : AHMED
25
Indian state : ASSAM
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Jungle, in India : SHOLA
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Nosy one : PRIER
28
Artifices : WILES
29
Man from Teheran : IRANI
30
Swallowed : EATEN
31
___ lawyer (gets advice) : SEESA
33
TV part : AUDIO
36
Drink : GINSLING
37
Drink : HIGHBALL
39
Twofold : BINAL
40
Have on : WEAR
42
Harangue : TIRADE
43
Employs again : REUSES
45
Clay deposit : LOESS
46
Aftermath of a scrape : SCAB
47
Aqua ___ : PURA
48
Heron's cousin : IBIS
49
Con ___ (with vigor) : BRIO
50
Draft classification : ONEA
51
Vetoed : NOED
52
Drink : SAKE
54
Peru's neighbor: Abbr. : BOL

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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