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Frances Hansen
Frances Hansen

New York Times, Wednesday, September 21, 1983

46-Down : Article of food

Author:
Frances Hansen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Frances Hansen has 81 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 40 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,370
Across
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Advantage : EDGE
5
Draper's merchandise : CLOTH
10
Pessimist's word : CANT
14
Emerge, as a menace : LOOM
15
Ringo Starr hit: 1974 : OOWEE
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He had an Irish Rose : ABIE
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Asininely adamant : STUBBORNASAMULE
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Causes bewilderment : ASTOUNDS
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Musical instruments : LUTES
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Anne and Jeanne, for short : STES
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Sitters' creations : LAPS
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Bad-tempered : CRUSTY
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Call from a nursery : MAMA
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Cape or fish : COD
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Effortlessness : EASE
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Laurel or Hardy : COMIC
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Número ___ : UNO
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Fidgety and frightened : SCAREDASARABBIT
39
Game or license : TAG
40
Hopeless case : GONER
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Wedding ammo : RICE
42
Dieppe donkey : ANE
43
Prize-winning Beatty film : REDS
44
Outbursts : SPATES
46
Quite : VERY
47
Air-show maneuver : SPIN
48
Be ready for : AWAIT
51
What comedians leave us in : STITCHES
55
Touched : MADASAMARCHHARE
58
Pizzeria's need : OVEN
59
Ballerina Jeanmaire : RENEE
60
Work on galleys : EDIT
61
Splinter : REND
62
Shell groups : CREWS
63
"Two Years Before the Mast" author : DANA
Down
1
A Lanchester : ELSA
2
Periods : DOTS
3
Style, to Bardot : GOUT
4
Braille writer : EMBOSSER
5
Loser to Holmes: June 11, 1982 : COONEY
6
House of ___ : LORDS
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___ up (confesses) : OWNS
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Earl Grey is one : TEA
9
Men and boys : HES
10
Nobelist in Literature: 1957 : CAMUS
11
Border on : ABUT
12
Shade of blue : NILE
13
Kickoff gadgets : TEES
18
Rifle part : BUTT
19
Wool-producing mammal : ALPACA
23
Truman's Mo. birthplace : LAMAR
24
Kabul bigwig : AMIR
25
Jai alai equipment : CESTA
26
French poet: 1589-1670 : RACAN
27
Lexicographer's concern : USAGE
28
Malone of the N.B.A : MOSES
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Ancient measure of length : CUBIT
30
Cleaver's "Soul ___" : ONICE
31
Hovers over fondly : DOTES
33
"___ Kisses," 1948 song : CANDY
36
Heronlike birds : EGRETS
37
Energetic one : DOER
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Separated, as a stream : BRANCHED
44
Mace, thyme, etc. : SPICES
45
Marrow : PITH
46
Article of food : VIAND
47
Scatter : STREW
48
Caballero's emotion : AMOR
49
New ___ film : WAVE
50
Yemeni city : ADEN
51
Sound : SANE
52
"Mary ___ little ... " : HADA
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Innisfail : ERIN
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Caterpillar's hair : SETA
56
___ de Triomphe : ARC
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Mal de ___ : MER

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 2 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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