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Jeanette K. Brill
Jeanette K. Brill

New York Times, Thursday, October 6, 1977

Author:
Jeanette K. Brill
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 78, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 40.4
Jeanette K. Brill has 78 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,281
Across
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Practice "mind over platter" : DIET
5
Will of God : LOGOS
10
Used up : GONE
14
Wave: Fr. : ONDE
15
Toward the left, at sea : APORT
16
Affirmatives, in Arles : OUIS
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Port in Algeria : ORAN
18
Texan's word for 5 Down : RIATA
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Cancel a change on a galley : STET
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Corrective : REMEDIAL
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Hellas : GREECE
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Stew ingredient : MEAT
25
Less opaque : SHEERER
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Showy flower : PEONY
31
Ewer handles : EARS
32
Calif. time : PST
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Dill : ANET
36
Limned : DRAWN
38
Roman statesman : CATO
39
Lease : LET
40
"The ___ Earth" : GOOD
41
Breakfast beverage : COCOA
42
Be suspended dangerously : HANGBYATHREAD
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So-so : AVERAGE
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Rent : TEAR
49
Distant : REMOTE
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Penn and Union : STATIONS
54
A city of Judah : ENAM
55
What novices don't know : ROPES
57
Theater curtain : DROP
58
Fictional mansion : TARA
59
Uneven : EROSE
60
Gymnast Korbut : OLGA
61
Wapitis : ELKS
62
Baltic natives : LETTS
63
Remainder : REST
Down
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Portal : DOOR
2
Regarding : INRE
3
Dutch cheese : EDAM
4
Flat : TENEMENT
5
Cowboy gear : LARIAT
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Narcotic : OPIATE
7
Intention : GOAL
8
Fragment for Fido : ORT
9
Kind of fern or moss : STAGHORN
10
Hide-and-___ : GOSEEK
11
Astronaut's milieu : OUTERSPACE
12
Nephew's sister : NIECE
13
Perfume ingredient : ESTER
21
Gainsay : DENY
23
Old cars : REOS
25
Captain Brassbound's creator : SHAW
26
Translucent precious stone : OPAL
27
Hawaiian goose : NENE
28
Conform : TOETHEMARK
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Rough's partner : READY
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Agora adjunct : STOA
34
Natterjack : TOAD
36
Verse than which there is no worse : DOGGEREL
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Lloyd Douglas's "The ___" : ROBE
38
Polish ___, outlet to the Baltic : CORRIDOR
40
Pesky insect : GNAT
41
Talk casually : CHAT
43
Fragrances : AROMAS
44
Affirm : ATTEST
45
Pesters : TEASES
46
Mountain ridge : ARETE
47
Corrupt : VENAL
50
Give, as a handicap : SPOT
51
Wreath on a knight's helmet : ORLE
52
Wooden pins : NOGS
53
Tiff : SPAT
56
School of mines topic : ORE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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