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Sara V. Tuckerman
Sara V. Tuckerman

New York Times, Saturday, May 10, 1980

Author:
Sara V. Tuckerman
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 30, Avg Word Len: 5.57, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.32)
Open Squares: 84, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 64.5
Sara V. Tuckerman has 40 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,141
Across
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Folds : PLEATS
7
Fishing vessel : SEALER
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Verse form : RONDEAU
15
Sicilian wine : MARSALA
16
Supplicates : OBTESTS
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Piloted a plane : AVIATED
18
Lillie : BEA
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Colossal : TITANIC
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Tanguay or Le Gallienne : EVA
22
Landed : ALIT
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Curtain material : NINON
25
Study hard : CRAM
26
Like some floors : TILED
28
Author of "This Hunger": 1945 : NIN
29
Roofing : SLATE
30
White House area : EASTROOM
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Low, marshy areas : SWALES
33
Quixote's creator : CERVANTES
35
Cardinal's headgear : REDHAT
38
Prospective juror : TALESMAN
42
Willow branch : OSIER
43
Canty of fiction : TOM
44
Parisienne's jeweled headpiece : TIARE
45
Hurried : SPED
46
Centers : CORES
48
Boast : CROW
49
Take tiffin, in London : EAT
50
English correctional school : BORSTAL
52
Large cask : TUN
53
Chaplets : ANADEMS
55
One of the amino acids : ALANINE
57
Home of the Blue Jays : TORONTO
58
Verbal nouns : GERUNDS
59
Presidential palace in Paris : ELYSEE
60
Crazes : MANIAS
Down
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Prove a will : PROBATE
2
Plant of the bellflower family : LOBELIA
3
Necessitates : ENTAILS
4
Ending with stock or block : ADE
5
Tryout : TEST
6
Glossy fabric : SATIN
7
Creeping juniper : SAVIN
8
Novelist Ambler : ERIC
9
"Not ___ Stranger" : ASA
10
To the side : LATERAL
11
Exalt : ELEVATE
12
Verdi hero : RADAMES
14
Author of "Dear Me" : USTINOV
15
Massenet opera : MANON
20
Dumbo's creators : ANIMATORS
23
Not all there : TETCHED
25
Homer's "Iliad," e.g. : CLASSIC
27
Dismal, to poets : DREAR
29
Nectarous : SWEET
31
Women's service org. : ORT
32
Theological degree : STL
34
Identification on Alumni Day : NAMETAG
35
Optimistic : ROSEATE
36
Man from Madrid : ESPANOL
37
Daily food allowance : DIETARY
39
Bar order : MARTINI
40
Ring-___-rosy : AROUNDA
41
Unfamiliarity : NEWNESS
43
Museum piece : TORSO
46
French nobleman : COMTE
47
Western capital : SALEM
50
Nota ___ : BENE
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Zhivago's love : LARA
54
___ Passos : DOS
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Mother Seton was one : NUN

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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