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Betty Jane Cometa
Betty Jane Cometa

New York Times, Friday, December 31, 1982

Author:
Cometa
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 303 (avg 1.64)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Betty Jane Cometa has 5 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Cometa is an alias for Betty Jane Cometa.
Jim Horne notes:

The split stepquote reads, "Cheers to good health, happiness and wealth."

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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,106
Across
1
Stage : PHASE
6
Tchu! : BAH
9
Ancient Syria : ARAM
13
Fin : FIVER
14
Dickens heroine : ADA
15
Galileo's birthplace : PISA
16
First line of a "Stepquote" toast : CHEERS
18
"Come, let's away ___": Shak. : TOPRISON
20
Bulb receptacles : SOCKETS
22
State definitely : SPECIFY
23
Espouse : ADOPT
25
"Life ___ jest": Gay : ISA
26
Word with top or tail : SPIN
29
Needlefish : GAR
30
Wrestling hold : NELSON
34
Divot : CLOD
35
Rumanian border city : ORADEA
37
French I noun : AMI
38
Unedited : RAW
39
Slowest : POKIEST
40
Tabard, e.g. : INN
41
Actress Balin : INA
42
Pastoral compositions : IDYLLS
43
Stew of a sort : SNIT
44
Sensible, responsible fellow : MENSCH
46
Rights proposal: Abbr. : ERA
47
"Industry" is its motto : UTAH
48
Musical Duke's monogram : EKE
49
Coin for Hussein : DINAR
51
Frost's "___ Not Taken" : THEROAD
55
Eccentricity : ODDNESS
59
Baker, to Dirksen : SONINLAW
61
End of toast : WEALTH
62
Garbo role : ANNA
63
Govt. group since 1933 : TVA
64
___ days (fasting periods) : EMBER
65
Authentic : REAL
66
Jinx : HEX
67
Gathers : REAPS
Down
1
Enl. men : PFCS
2
Vallee's salutation : HIHO
3
___ plaisir (willingly) : AVEC
4
"___ ye shall find ... ": Matt. 7:7 : SEEKAND
5
Strayed : ERRED
6
Hitter's need : BAT
7
Fusses : ADOS
8
Third line of toast : HAPPINESSANDW
9
At the top : APICAL
10
___ e bisi, Italian dish : RISI
11
Time-setting phrase : ASOF
12
Lots : MANY
17
Second line of toast : STOGOODHEALTH
19
Homophone for receipt : RESEAT
21
Pitcher Lyle : SPARKY
24
Shadowed : TRAILED
26
Theater curtain : SCRIM
27
Level : PLANE
28
Grant Wood was one : IOWAN
31
Theresa or Thomas : SAINT
32
"___ vincit amor" : OMNIA
33
Beethoven's last symphony : NINTH
36
Actress Dolores : DELRIO
39
Heckle; tease : PICKON
43
The Terrible or the Great, e.g. : SURNAME
45
Kind of number : SERIAL
50
"Do, ___ ... ": Hammerstein : ADEER
51
Autocrat : TSAR
52
Sharpen : HONE
53
Danish composer : ENNA
54
Pianist-composer Brubeck : DAVE
56
Island off Tuscany : ELBA
57
Process unit : STEP
58
AMEX entities : SHRS
60
Wane's partner : WAX

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 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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