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Jeanette K. Brill
Jeanette K. Brill

New York Times, Wednesday, September 28, 1977

26-Down : Groups on a col. campus

Author:
Jeanette K. Brill
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 271 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 2, Spans: 3 Grid has duplicate clues.
Jeanette K. Brill has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,273
Across
1
Freudian topics : EGOS
5
Fictional deer : BAMBI
10
___ in (contribute) : CHIP
14
Source of pulpwood : PINE
15
Liquid portion of a fat : OLEIN
16
Nylons : HOSE
17
Hemingway novel, with "The" : OLDMANANDTHESEA
20
Franco Harris and colleagues : STEELERS
21
Kind of bunny or bonnet : EASTER
22
Urban renewal target : SLUM
23
Fortitude : GRIT
24
___ one's voice (cry aloud) : LIFTUP
27
Coal, oil or peat : FUEL
28
Square of butter : PAT
31
"The Lady ___" : INRED
32
Is in poor health : AILS
33
Whittle : PARE
34
Hemingway novel : AFAREWELLTOARMS
37
Soaks flax : RETS
38
Salvation ___ : ARMY
39
Performs diligently : PLIES
40
Upperclassmen: Abbr. : SRS
41
Greek goddess of discord : ERIS
42
Holiday, in Honduras : FIESTA
43
Raison d'___ : ETRE
44
Cook's collection : PANS
45
Social standing : ESTATE
48
"___, Next Year" : SAMETIME
52
Hemingway novel : THESUNALSORISES
54
Nat or Natalie : COLE
55
Root or Yale : ELIHU
56
Actor Asther : NILS
57
Clasped : HELD
58
Sopranos Hunter and Shane : RITAS
59
Italian princely family : ESTE
Down
1
Heroic poetry : EPOS
2
Covered with gold leaf : GILT
3
Wave on the French Riviera : ONDE
4
School periods : SEMESTERS
5
Cram for an exam : BONEUP
6
Frighten : ALARM
7
"___ sana in corpore sano" : MENS
8
Invitation : BID
9
Bank bonus : INTEREST
10
Storage container : CHEST
11
Multitude : HOST
12
Words of understanding : ISEE
13
Burrel or Seckel : PEAR
18
Refer to indirectly : ALLUDE
19
Call, as a taxi : HAIL
23
Arroyo : GULLY
24
Truth stretchers : LIARS
25
Surmise : INFER
26
Groups on a col. campus : FRATS
27
Bergman products : FILMS
28
Helen's abductor : PARIS
29
Medieval steel helmet : ARMET
30
Turncoat in "The Godfather" : TESSA
32
Eagle's nest : AERIE
33
Canaan or Holy Land : PALESTINE
35
Gamekeeper for rabbits : WARRENER
36
One who speaks his mind : OPINER
41
Some of Caesar's last words : ETTU
42
Celebrated : FAMOUS
43
Alleviated : EASED
44
See 53 Down : PASHA
45
Engrave : ETCH
46
Sabot or sabotine : SHOE
47
Take effect : TELL
48
Oriental skirt feature : SLIT
49
"Whatever ___ right": Pope : ISIS
50
Dissolve : MELT
51
Actual being : ESSE
53
With 44 Down, Albanian mountaineer's hero : ALI

Answer summary:
3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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