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Jean J. Davison
Jean J. Davison

New York Times, Saturday, March 21, 1981

Author:
Jean J. Davison
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 46, Avg Word Len: 4.71, Missing: { J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 244 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 55, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 19.5
Jean J. Davison has 62 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,456
Across
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Married man's septennial problem : ITCH
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Exterminates : RIDS
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This may figure in an hourglass figure : STAY
13
Snooks, to Brice : ROLE
14
Staten Island or Dobbs : FERRY
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Beyond the ___ : PALE
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Kanten : AGAR
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Subject of many a Truffaut film : AMOUR
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News item : OBIT
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First line of an equinoctial verse : NOWSPRINGISDUE
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Little island : AIT
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Jackie Onassis, ___ Bouvier : NEE
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Foulard spoiler : STAIN
27
Incarcerate : CAGE
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Golf org. : PGA
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Second line of verse : TISNATURESPLAN
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Dumbbell : DOLT
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Org. in "Odd Man Out" : IRA
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These may be wild : OATS
38
Third line of verse : PLEASETELLITTO
43
Disconsolate : SAD
44
Cainan was his son : ENOS
45
Bury : INTER
46
You can have a blast with this : TNT
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Department at D.C. : AGR
48
End of verse : THATWEATHERMAN
56
Brilliant stroke : COUP
57
Metal mold : INGOT
58
Let out, as in sewing : EASE
59
Prompt : URGE
60
Petioles : STEMS
61
"Song of India," e.g. : ARIA
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Textile worker : DYER
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Where she had bells : TOES
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"___ we forget" : LEST
Down
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Adversary of Iraq : IRAN
2
Neighbor of Ghana : TOGO
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Tooth's partner : CLAW
4
Towel marking : HERS
5
Moderate : REMIT
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Press : IRON
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Stupefy : DRUG
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Otologist's device : SYRINGE
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Fine porcelain : SPODE
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Freud's "Totem und ___" : TABU
11
"I cannot tell ___" : ALIE
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Still : YET
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Breakfast cereal : FARINA
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French bread : PAIN
21
Understands : SEES
24
Roman woman's garb : STOLA
25
Like some showers : TILED
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Nick Charles's dog : ASTA
27
Panaceas : CURES
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Lake bordering Uzbekistan : ARAL
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Carlton Fisk guards it : PLATE
30
U. of Florida athlete : GATOR
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Suburb of Liège : ANS
33
Late Yugoslav leader : TITO
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A size of paper : POTT
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Emigrés, e.g. : DPS
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Dispatched : SENT
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Tangle : ENTWIST
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Traffic signals : LIGHTS
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Concerning : INRE
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Thin candle : TAPER
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Basic units of matter : ATOMS
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Whig's opponent : TORY
49
Enormous : HUGE
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Within: Comb. form : ENTO
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U.S. author: 1909–55 : AGEE
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Genuine : REAL
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Filly's mother : MARE
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Sale words : ASIS
55
Straight from the bottle : NEAT
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Something chewed on a pasture : CUD

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

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