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Lois Sidway
Lois Sidway

New York Times, Friday, October 8, 1982

Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { F Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 15.5
Lois Sidway has 67 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 18 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,022
Across
1
Word with slip or pitch : SALES
6
Boy in "The Yearling" : JODY
10
Pub plaything : DART
14
Broken-down horse : CROCK
15
A fright with a bite : OGRE
16
Dies ___ : IRAE
17
Confronted with a hard decision : ATTHECROSSROADS
20
Spread more grass seed : RESOWED
21
Electron's path : ORBIT
22
Day : ERA
23
Beard grown by many farmers : AWN
25
Sauce for sushi : SOY
26
Confidential : UNDERONESHAT
32
Web, for one : TOILS
33
Corroded : ATE
34
Trawler's trail : WAKE
38
Merry, to a Basque : ALAI
39
Stillwater student : AGGIE
41
Heron's relative : IBIS
42
Gallimaufry : HASH
43
___ de mer : MAL
44
Bayou : INLET
45
Secretly ready : UPONESSLEEVE
49
A pal of Bo's in a film : APE
52
Component of a joule : ERG
53
Gallic garlic : AIL
54
Line from the Louvre to Pigalle : METRO
56
Public defender : TRIBUNE
61
In private : BEHINDTHESCENES
65
Author Hunter : EVAN
66
Oral sigh : AHME
67
Kind of artery : ILIAC
68
Sunder : REND
69
Capt.'s deck aide : BOSN
70
Soupçon : TASTE
Down
1
Hilum : SCAR
2
"Vissi d'___," Puccini aria : ARTE
3
A passel : LOTS
4
Alpine reprise : ECHO
5
Brochettes : SKEWERS
6
Hussein's kingdom : JORDAN
7
U.S. satellite : OGO
8
Some are G.P.'s : DRS
9
Reply to Virginia : YES
10
Haute-couture name : DIOR
11
Yamani and Fahd : ARABS
12
Pilot-controller link : RADIO
13
Petulant : TESTY
18
Mackerellike fish : CERO
19
Novelist Jaffe : RONA
23
Italian bubbly region : ASTI
24
Roller-coaster sound : WHEE
26
Deseret's successor : UTAH
27
Puzzler's popular piano piece : NOLA
28
"Buenos ___" : DIAS
29
He had his Roots in Clinton, N.Y. : ELIHU
30
U.S. flagpole sitter : EAGLE
31
Convolution : TWINE
35
Fit : ABLE
36
Ukrainian capital : KIEV
37
Artist Alberti's angel : ESTE
39
Son of Venus : AMOR
40
Go, to Burns : GANG
44
Not allowed : ILLICIT
46
Chess pawn, in Cádiz : PEON
47
Glossy fabric : SATEEN
48
Letter opener : SIRS
49
Describing some waves : AMBER
50
Nettle : PEEVE
51
Patriot Allen : ETHAN
55
Bacon part : RIND
57
Composer Bartók : BELA
58
Les Etats-___ : UNIS
59
Nifty : NEAT
60
Follower of opal : ESCE
62
Smidgen : DAB
63
However, lazily : THO
64
"___ Pinafore" : HMS

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

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