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Barbara J. Weakley
Barbara J. Weakley

New York Times, Tuesday, January 24, 1984

Author:
Barbara J. Weakley
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 4.89, Missing: { F J K Q X }, Scrabble score: 262 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Barbara J. Weakley has 19 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,495
Across
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Luxurious : POSH
5
Mets or Jets : TEAM
9
Fiber for ropes : BAST
13
Table spread : OLEO
14
Church calendar : ORDO
15
Ill. city : ALTON
17
Factory : MILL
18
Equal : PEER
19
Scowl : GLARE
20
Optimistic one : POLLYANNA
22
Italian poet : DANTE
23
River in Miss. : YAZOO
24
Deviate : WANDER
25
Free-for-all : BRAWL
28
Ready for power : WIRED
30
Obscure : REMOTE
32
Back, in Beauvais : DOS
33
Spanish artist : DALI
37
Forays : INROADS
39
Preoccupied : BEMUSED
41
Incite : GOAD
42
Mayday's relative : SOS
44
Pillage : RAPINE
45
Slow, to Salieri : LENTO
47
Tall flowers, for short : GLADS
48
Soup ingredient : LENTIL
52
Native of Teheran : IRANI
54
Then, to Taine : ALORS
55
Uproot : ERADICATE
59
Steersman : PILOT
60
Greek city or gulf : ARTA
61
Declare : AVER
62
Decipher : SOLVE
63
Noticed : SEEN
64
Small monkey : TITI
65
Numerical suffix : TEEN
66
Taro root : EDDO
67
Scene of Satan's first triumph : EDEN
Down
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Splendor : POMP
2
Mishmash : OLIO
3
Vend : SELL
4
Disney's "Mother Goose Goes ___" : HOLLYWOOD
5
Gemstone : TOPAZ
6
Heretofore, in poesy : ERENOW
7
Glandular : ADENOID
8
Unit of time, in prosody : MORA
9
Iraqi capital : BAGDAD
10
Edgar ___ Poe : ALLAN
11
Tolerate : STAND
12
Rich cake : TORTE
16
___-do-well : NEER
21
Summit site: Feb. 1945 : YALTA
24
W. German river : WESER
25
Ship's jail : BRIG
26
"Splitsville" : RENO
27
Hog plum : AMRA
29
Plunder : ROB
31
Defunct auto : EDSEL
33
Reproduction : DUPLICATE
34
Continent : ASIA
35
Advance : LEND
36
When Brutus was brutal : IDES
38
One of the Trinity : SON
40
Word form with potent and sonant : MAGNI
43
Agitated : STIRRED
45
Attend : LISTEN
46
Emulated Sen. Webster : ORATED
48
Trips around the oval : LAPS
49
"Middlemarch" author : ELIOT
50
___ prosequi : NOLLE
51
Treasure find : TROVE
53
"A Bell for ___": Hersey : ADANO
55
Facility : EASE
56
Greedy : AVID
57
Where a chapeau goes : TETE
58
"___ go brath" : ERIN

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

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