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Jeanette K. Brill
Jeanette K. Brill

New York Times, Thursday, September 20, 1979

27-Down : Matter-of-fact language

Author:
Jeanette K. Brill
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { G J Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 292 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Jeanette K. Brill has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,908
Across
1
Shell or scull : BOAT
5
Deluded : DUPED
10
Moslem holy man : IMAM
14
"___ boy!" : ITSA
15
Lyric poem : EPODE
16
Biblical mount : NEBO
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Troop formations : ECHELONS
21
Triple duo : SEXTET
22
Thessaly mountain : OSSA
23
Name in golf lore : LEMA
24
Shrewd : ASTUTE
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Leader during the Golden Age of Athens : PERICLES
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Cafe : BOITE
32
Smell ___ (be suspicious) : ARAT
33
Clammer's concern : TIDE
34
Rochet's relative : ALB
35
Self-reproach : REMORSE
38
Pound dog : CUR
39
It might be light : BEER
41
Word with hall or call : MESS
42
Utter : VOICE
44
Worsted fabric : ESTAMENE
46
City on the Loire : NANTES
47
Author of "Critique of Pure Reason" : KANT
48
Kind of cracker : SODA
49
Quaker : FRIEND
52
Sensors of a sort : ANTENNAE
56
Be frank : LETONESHAIRDOWN
58
Crown worn by Osiris : ATEF
59
Get guns again : REARM
60
Kiln : OVEN
61
Without defects: Abbr. : PERF
62
American marten : SABLE
63
Space org. : NASA
Down
1
Yonkers Raceway sulky : BIKE
2
Relating to the ear : OTIC
3
Author of "The Nazarene" : ASCH
4
Like some diner orders : TAKEOUT
5
Overthrow : DEPOSE
6
"Once ___ time ... " : UPONA
7
Operatic Lily : PONS
8
Dutch commune : EDE
9
Eclairs and Napoleons : DESSERTS
10
Like some meteorologists' forecasts : INEXACT
11
Athletic event : MEET
12
Partner of ready and willing : ABLE
13
The greatest amount : MOST
18
Loose overcoat : ULSTER
19
Prefix meaning half : HEMI
23
Edward and Norman : LEARS
24
Like ___ in arms : ABABE
25
These are often stepped on : SOLES
26
Home of a lama : TIBET
27
Matter-of-fact language : PROSE
28
Ennomic : LICIT
29
Reason out : EDUCE
30
Ancient Chinese : SERES
32
Flower spike : AMENT
36
Editors, often : EMENDERS
37
Dodger : EVADER
40
Percentage of the take : RAKEOFF
43
Endlessly : ONANDON
45
Author of "The Magic Mountain" : MANN
46
"___ for Sergeants" : NOTIME
48
Traffic tie-up : SNARL
49
Tent part : FLAP
50
Network inside each of us : RETE
51
Roman way : ITER
52
Whaler of fiction : AHAB
53
Variable star : NOVA
54
Fills with dread : AWES
55
Province in Sicily : ENNA
57
"The Old Man and the ___" : SEA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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