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Grace Fabbroni
Grace Fabbroni

New York Times, Monday, September 28, 1981

39-Down : Diamondback

Author:
Grace Fabbroni
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 44, Avg Word Len: 4.76, Missing: { J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 255 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 1
Grace Fabbroni has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,647
Across
1
Pop : SODA
5
Bundles : BALES
10
Contest at Belmont : RACE
14
Enthusiasm : ELAN
15
Gothic arch : OGIVE
16
Mine entrance : ADIT
17
Whitewall, e.g. : TIRE
18
Consumer advocate : NADER
19
Tease : RIDE
20
A beginning : ONCEUPONATIME
23
Portion : DOSE
24
Where Caesar trod : ITER
25
Offshoot : SCION
28
Like Harvard's "Pudding" : HASTY
31
Gasp : PANT
32
Winding : SPIRAL
34
Skip over water : DAP
37
Slightly more than never : ONCEINALIFETIME
40
"___ and Sympathy" : TEA
41
Chatter, with "on" : RATTLE
42
Kind of eye : EVIL
43
Storms : RAGES
44
Rank : GRADE
45
Regimen : DIET
47
"Rubáiyát" poet : OMAR
49
Finally : ONCEANDFORALL
55
Manitoban Indian : CREE
56
Two on the aisle : SEATS
57
Toy-bear hero : POOH
59
Larry of the Celtics : BIRD
60
Fences in : PALES
61
Pulitzer Prize playwright: 1953 : INGE
62
Glut : SATE
63
Nettlesome : SPINY
64
Broadway gas : NEON
Down
1
Coterie : SET
2
Hodgepodge : OLIO
3
Mild oath : DARN
4
Short narrative : ANECDOTE
5
Plus : BONUS
6
Yawning : AGAPE
7
Playground of Venice : LIDO
8
Kind of number : EVEN
9
Curative agents : SERA
10
Curio : RARITY
11
___ a dozen : ADIME
12
Autumn beverage : CIDER
13
Season in Chartres : ETE
21
Eternity : EON
22
Boxer's pinnacle : TITLE
25
Detect : SPOT
26
Support of a sort : CANE
27
Quechuan Indian : INCA
28
Sword handles : HILTS
29
Botanical exterior : ARIL
30
Umpire's call : SAFE
32
Bottleneck : SNAG
33
Potter's paste : PATE
34
Teresa Stratas, e.g. : DIVA
35
In the thick of : AMID
36
Soccer great : PELE
38
Seething with indignation : IRATE
39
Diamondback : TERRAPIN
43
What some hairlines do : RECEDE
44
Slender fish : GAR
45
Andrea ___ : DORIA
46
Passive : INERT
47
Repeatedly : OFTEN
48
Cryptogamous : MOSSY
50
Nile killers : ASPS
51
Lowest high tide : NEAP
52
Surrealist painter : DALI
53
Kind of eagle or wolf : LONE
54
Trademark : LOGO
55
TV initials : CBS
58
Party member of a sort : HEN

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