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Adelyn Lewis
Adelyn Lewis

New York Times, Tuesday, June 10, 1975

Author:
Adelyn Lewis
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 259 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Adelyn Lewis has 9 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,432
Across
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Boast : CROW
5
Kind of apple or chamber : STAR
9
Stock-market grouping : RAILS
14
___-poly : ROLY
15
Famous traveler : POLO
16
Boredom : ENNUI
17
Give backing to : ABET
18
Lags, financially : OWES
19
Brazil's Rio ___ : NEGRO
20
Word for Jenny Lind : NIGHTINGALE
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Poetic word : EEN
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Ratifies, old style : ENSEALS
25
Mints' relatives : SAGES
27
Precarious perch, at times : LIMB
29
River deposits : DELTAS
32
Of basic importance : CARDINAL
36
Marie Antoinette, e.g. : REINE
37
Mars: Prefix : AREO
38
Insects often strained at : GNATS
41
Sound of lament : MOAN
42
Deadened : MUTED
44
July 4 decorations : BUNTINGS
46
Marines' training island : PARRIS
48
Snicker-___ : SNEE
49
Bone: Prefix : OSTEO
51
Father's gift : NECKTIE
56
Antelope : GNU
58
Numskulls : HAMMERHEADS
60
Remainder, in Paris : RESTE
62
Tree trunk : BOLE
63
Baseball's Slaughter : ENOS
64
Bar on a loom : EASER
65
By any chance : EVER
66
Lonesome tree : PINE
67
British service women : WRENS
68
N. L. players : REDS
69
Matinee days: Abbr. : SATS
Down
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Lifting device : CRANE
2
Round ___ : ROBIN
3
Designer Cassini et al. : OLEGS
4
Declaration signer : WYTHE
5
Rearing a future brat : SPOILING
6
Local resident : TOWNSMAN
7
Shake ___ : ALEG
8
Bonheur and others : ROSAS
9
One making a bridge error : RENEGER
10
Chemical suffix : ANE
11
Act of swallowing : INGESTION
12
Attract : LURE
13
Swiss town : SION
21
Anklebones : TALI
22
"A Shropshire ___" : LAD
26
Tree resin : ELEMI
28
Talks too freely : BLABS
30
Jumbled word: Abbr. : ANAG
31
Legislators: Abbr. : SENS
32
Vacation place : CAMP
33
Town in Uganda : ARUA
34
Turned up, as a nose : RETROUSSE
35
Activists : DOERS
39
Burrowed : TUNNELED
40
Contemptuous ones : SNEERERS
43
Flustered states : DITHERS
45
Cal ___ : TECH
47
Kind of horse or power : SEA
50
Old card game : OMBER
52
For ___ (not fooling) : KEEPS
53
Aroid of S. A. : TANIA
54
"___ Want to Get Well" : IDONT
55
Curves : ESSES
56
Waxed : GREW
57
Approach : NEAR
59
Relocate : MOVE
61
Hamilton's bill : TEN

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

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