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Maura B. Jacobson
Maura B. Jacobson

New York Times, Friday, August 12, 1977

Author:
Maura B. Jacobson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 28.9 Grid has duplicate clues.
Maura B. Jacobson has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,226
Across
1
Of the ear : OTIC
5
Coupon of a sort : SCRIP
10
Words of approximation : ORSO
14
Art cult : DADA
15
Unescorted : ALONE
16
___ morgana (optical illusion) : FATA
17
Higher, in Bonn : OBER
18
Lawbreaker : BANKROBBER
20
Lawbreakers : RUSTLERS
22
Cool drink : JULEP
23
Wife of Zeus : HERA
24
Ballet garb : TUTU
25
Nosegays : POSIES
28
Lawbreaker : MURDERER
32
Verb form: Abbr. : IMPER
33
Star's walk-on role : CAMEO
34
Prefix with gram or graph : EPI
35
Unsophisticated : NAIF
36
To build, in Caen : BATIR
37
Andy's sidekick : AMOS
38
French pronoun : UNE
39
Acted as decoy : LURED
40
June V.I.P. : BRIDE
41
Lawbreaker : PILFERER
43
Use a clasp : FASTEN
44
Wild revelry : ORGY
45
Angel's prop : HALO
46
Flynn of film fame : ERROL
48
Lawbreaker : MUTINEER
52
Lawbreaker : PLAGIARIST
54
Run in neutral : IDLE
55
Busy place : HIVE
56
Shampoo follow-up : RINSE
57
Munro pseudonym : SAKI
58
Venison on the hoof : DEER
59
Relative of Pan : SATYR
60
Certain Feds : TMEN
Down
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Aroma : ODOR
2
Verboten : TABU
3
Caesar's doomsday : IDES
4
Lawbreaker : CARTHIEF
5
Cavalry swords : SABERS
6
Barton or Bow : CLARA
7
Nessen and Ziegler : RONS
8
Printer's need : INK
9
Lawbreaker : PERJURER
10
"Five foot two, eyes ___" : OFBLUE
11
Playwright David : RABE
12
Footfall : STEP
13
Regatta gear : OAR
19
Surpass : OUTDO
21
Lascivious look : LEER
24
Swollen : TUMID
25
Kind of lamp or girl : PINUP
26
Muscat native : OMANI
27
Pitchman's forte : SPIEL
28
British boy's mom : MATER
29
Creditor's request : REMIT
30
Horace's form, at times : EPODE
31
Up : RISEN
33
Top man in Albany : CAREY
36
Lawbreakers : BURGLARS
37
Lawbreaker : ARSONIST
39
Dramatist Jones, now Imamu Baraka : LEROI
40
Java's neighbor : BALI
42
Lawbreaker : FORGER
43
Having more adipose : FATTER
45
Brazen woman : HUSSY
46
Author Wiesel : ELIE
47
Enthusiastic review : RAVE
48
After-dinner item : MINT
49
Gouda's kin : EDAM
50
Ms. Sommer : ELKE
51
Restraint of a sort : REIN
52
Possibility after an M.A. : PHD
53
Inlet : RIA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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