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Louise Earnest
Louise Earnest

New York Times, Thursday, September 27, 1979

37-Down : Tourist's neckwear

Author:
Louise Earnest
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 290 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Louise Earnest has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,915
Across
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T.R.'s "big" weapon : STICK
6
Native of Wichita : KANSAN
12
Normal time, musically : ATEMPO
13
Figures in sports : SEMIPROS
15
Chinese skiff : SAMPAN
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Calaboose : HOOSEGOW
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Printed booboos : TYPOS
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Unless, in law : NISI
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Battle site in 1796 : LODI
20
Composer's product : OPUS
21
Letter after cee : DEE
22
Figures on Wall Street : BULLS
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Provides T.L.C. : NURTURES
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Figures at Aqueduct : PONIES
26
After zeta : ETA
27
Sparks or Buntline : NED
28
Sty talk : OINKS
29
"___ M for Murder" : DIAL
30
Figures in D.C. : SENS
31
British measure : LITRE
32
"___ on parle ... " : ICI
33
U.S. mortgage guarantor : FHA
36
Abbey Theater's Sean : OCASEY
38
Cloverleaf locales : FREEWAYS
40
Figures in silents : VAMPS
41
Free : RID
42
"Miserabile dictu!" : ALAS
43
Moslem V.I.P. : EMIR
44
"___ of Wine and Roses" : DAYS
46
Creator of Mr. Pim : MILNE
47
Do a decorator's job : RENOVATE
49
Certain protests : SITINS
50
Figure in transit : TRAVELER
51
Figure in a Shakespearean poem : ADONIS
52
Actress Smith : ALEXIS
53
Pop song group : WINGS
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Remain permanently : STAYPUT
2
Seafood fritters, Japanese style : TEMPURA
3
Duty : IMPOST
4
Figures in figures : CPAS
5
___-Tiki (Heyerdahl boat) : KON
6
One of the Cyclades : KEOS
7
Mine, in Boulogne : AMOI
8
City in Yugoslavia : NIS
9
Explores caves : SPELUNKS
10
Gulf of ___, in the Aegean : ARGOLIS
11
Noggin : NOODLE
12
Robbins's "___ for Danny Fisher" : ASTONE
13
Starts : SHIES
14
Chard or cheese : SWISS
18
Badger : NEEDLE
21
Like a cloudy day : DREARY
22
Clyde's partner : BONNIE
24
Makes one : UNITES
25
Patched : PIECED
28
Egyptian god of the lower world : OSIRIS
29
Refute : DISPROVE
31
Layered : LAMINAL
33
"___ in Love Again," 1930 song : FALLING
34
Town on Cape Cod : HYANNIS
35
Evaluate : ASSESS
36
Manifest : OVERT
37
Tourist's neckwear : CAMERA
38
Poultry-counter item : FRYER
39
Serve : WAITON
44
Painter of limp watches : DALI
45
Endings for consul and sultan : ATES
46
Noon, in Nice : MIDI
48
Irk : VEX
49
Adage : SAW

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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