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Lois Sidway
Lois Sidway

New York Times, Wednesday, September 28, 1983

43-Down : Emulate Columbo

Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.14, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 12, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Lois Sidway has 67 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 18 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,377
Across
1
"Kiddo," e.g. : SLANG
6
Model : IDEAL
11
Pearl or Bill : BAILEY
12
Kind of slipper : BALLET
14
Aria from Bernstein's "Candide" : GLITTERANDBEGAY
17
Nancy's partner : RON
18
Muscat native : ARAB
19
Group containing 100 : SENATE
20
Come in : ENTER
22
Musical syllable : TRA
24
Cézanne's summers : ETES
25
A Churchill successor : EDEN
26
Poor : MEAGER
29
Before, to Tennyson : ERE
30
Live : RESIDE
32
Nobelist in Medicine: 1947 : CORI
33
Feminine suffix : ESS
34
Swashbuckler of fiction : DARTAGNAN
37
Madison Ave. creations : ADS
40
Ran, as dye : BLED
41
Wagnerian heroine : ISOLDE
45
Actor Ayres : LEW
46
Shawl for Conchita : SERAPE
48
Abound : TEEM
49
___ impasse : ATAN
51
Native of the lower Niger : IBO
52
Basil and garlic sauce : PESTO
53
Proposal on Capitol Hill : MOTION
56
Painter Bonheur : ROSA
58
Dearie : PET
59
Strouse-Adams tune: 1960 : PUTONAHAPPYFACE
62
Bonus of a kind : REBATE
63
Patronize a restaurant : EATOUT
64
Extend a subscription : RENEW
65
Make merry : REVEL
Down
1
Bernadette et Jeanne : SAINTES
2
Kindled : LIT
3
Communion table : ALTAR
4
___-do-well : NEER
5
Whirl : GYRATE
6
"Son of," in Arabic : IBN
7
June honorees : DADS
8
Czech river : ELBE
9
Awl, to de Gaulle : ALENE
10
Heir : LEGATEE
11
Renoir's "___ Bather" : BLONDE
13
Spuds : TATERS
14
Germaine, the feminist : GREER
15
Magical formula : ABRACADABRA
16
What nods signify : YESES
21
Home of Phillips University : ENID
23
Excited : AGOG
26
Biographer Miller : MERLE
27
Ford or Pyle : ERNIE
28
Inlets : RIAS
31
Pats gently : DABS
35
Actress Garr : TERI
36
Memo : NOTE
37
" ... ___ unto my feet" : ALAMP
38
Londoners call it a diversion : DETOUR
39
Musca domestica's nemesis : SWATTER
42
Popular electric guitarist : LESPAUL
43
Emulate Columbo : DETECT
44
Shed tears onstage : EMOTE
47
Party ___ (boor or bore) : POOPER
50
Weeping mother of myth : NIOBE
52
Movie medium : PAYTV
54
___ even keel : ONAN
55
Hoopster Archibald : NATE
57
Foretell, in Inverness : SPAE
60
Fell : HEW
61
The Red Baron, to Snoopy : FOE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 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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