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Lois Sidway
Lois Sidway

New York Times, Tuesday, February 15, 1983

Author:
Lois Sidway
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J K Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 27.4
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. 12,152
Across
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Kind of jug : TOBY
5
Plagiarize : STEAL
10
Child's ammo : CAPS
14
Wings : ALAE
15
Peter of "Casablanca" : LORRE
16
Coup d'___ : ETAT
17
Goody Two-shoes, for one : PARAGONOFVIRTUE
20
Eur. neighbor : AFR
21
Deserters : RATS
22
Din : NOISE
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Bell town of fiction : ADANO
25
One of Santa's eight : DANCER
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Recess : ALCOVE
28
Lasso loop : NOOSE
30
Stir up : ROUSE
31
Anagram for a fish : AUNT
32
Use a powder puff : DAB
35
Well-mannered Miss Tiegs? : MODELOFBEHAVIOR
39
Word for a bairn : SMA
40
Prattles : GABS
41
Intermediate, in law : MESNE
42
Tote : CARRY
44
Promote : FOSTER
45
Entertain lavishly : REGALE
48
Boyer of baseball : CLETE
49
Coeur d'___, Idaho : ALENE
50
Bedouin : ARAB
51
Roast V.I.P.'s : MCS
54
What 17 Across and 35 Across do : SETAGOODEXAMPLE
58
"___ and the Detectives, " 1964 film : EMIL
59
Moslem decree : IRADE
60
Leaf part : VEIN
61
Anger, sloth, etc. : SINS
62
Veal piccata flavoring : LEMON
63
Jab : PROD
Down
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Bark cloth : TAPA
2
Norse saint : OLAF
3
Caribbean predator : BARRACUDA
4
"___, though I walk ... " : YEA
5
Actor Everett ___ : SLOANE
6
Sidekick of movies and TV : TONTO
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Cupid : EROS
8
Stage line of a sort : ARF
9
O.T. book : LEV
10
Yankee catcher : CERONE
11
Garret : ATTIC
12
Breather : PAUSE
13
Pilot : STEER
18
Driveway material : GRAVEL
19
Feminine suffixes : INAS
24
Amount given by an R.N. : DOSE
25
"The lady ___ protest too much ... ": Shak. : DOTH
26
"Present ___!" : ARMS
27
Come into view : LOOM
28
Like a textured sweater : NUBBY
29
Tipper's need, at times : ONES
31
On the horizon : AFAR
32
Painting technique : DISTEMPER
33
Tops : AONE
34
Title for a rabbit : BRER
36
Monstrous one : OGRE
37
Creature on a slide : AMOEBA
38
Weskit : VEST
42
Bangkok klongs : CANALS
43
Shake ___ (hie) : ALEG
44
Pale yellow, as hair : FLAXEN
45
Tears down a flat : RASES
46
Varnish resin : ELEMI
47
Words to a hitchhiker : GETIN
48
Dogma of faith : CREDO
50
Bede of fiction : ADAM
52
Muse of history : CLIO
53
Dispatch : SEND
55
Word with can or cloth : OIL
56
Cinnabar, e.g. : ORE
57
Baseball award, for short : MVP

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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