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Grace Fabbroni
Grace Fabbroni

New York Times, Monday, March 27, 1978

44-Down : Philippine rope-making fiber

Author:
Grace Fabbroni
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { F J Q W Z }, Scrabble score: 295 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Grace Fabbroni has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,453
Across
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Chagall : MARC
5
Swiftly : APACE
10
The Beehive State : UTAH
14
Football Hall of Fame locale : OHIO
15
Cleansing agent : BORAX
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Vincent Lopez theme : NOLA
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Comic character : POGO
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Winged : ALATE
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Gleason's "How sweet ___!" : ITIS
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Accepts a secondary position : TAKESABACKSEAT
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S. African of Dutch extraction : BOER
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Desperate need of Richard III : HORSE
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Grebe's cousin : LOON
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Alaskan highway : ALCAN
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Nevada city : RENO
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Flash : STREAK
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Possessed : HAD
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Kin of Monday-morning quarterbacks : BACKSEATDRIVERS
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Anger : IRE
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Lasso : LARIAT
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Therefore : ERGO
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Hindu grouping : CASTE
43
Church calendar : ORDO
44
On both sides: Prefix : AMPHI
47
Basil thyme, e.g. : HERB
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Sneakily : BEHINDONESBACK
55
Mr. Bede : ADAM
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On the qui vive : ALERT
57
Quality of sound : TONE
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Outer covering : CASE
60
Spartacus was one : SLAVE
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Popular figure : IDOL
62
Pub drinks : ALES
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Lover's antithesis : HATER
64
Servant, in India : MATY
Down
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Thick mass of hair : MOP
2
"Cat on ___ Tin Roof" : AHOT
3
City on the Western Dvina : RIGA
4
Newlyweds' reading matter : COOKBOOK
5
Humble : ABASE
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Central or pivotal : POLAR
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Semite : ARAB
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Down: Prefix : CATA
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Military V.I.P. : EXEC
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Simultaneously, with "in" : UNISON
11
Carrier, as of bales : TOTER
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Gangland monicker : ALIAS
13
Cause of many an error : HASTE
21
A thousand ages : EON
22
Military uniform : KHAKI
25
Writer who popularized limericks : LEAR
26
First word in children's stories : ONCE
27
Bandleader Shaw : ARTIE
28
Helen of Troy's mother : LEDA
29
Two-wheeled vehicle : CART
30
Baseball stat : RBI
31
Aqueous "seven" : SEAS
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Piece of pastry : TART
33
Roundup group : HERD
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Ship of myth : ARGO
35
Brit. military decoration : DSO
37
Liquidated : SLAIN
38
Word-for-word : VERBATIM
42
Carillons : CHIMES
43
Sphere : ORB
44
Philippine rope-making fiber : ABACA
45
Olympian's prize : MEDAL
46
Aspect : PHASE
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Browning's "___ Riel" : HERVE
48
Perfume ingredient : ESTER
50
Sprinkling, for flavor : DASH
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Stewpot : OLLA
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Shipshape : NEAT
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Musical ending : CODA
54
Word with slip or loop : KNOT
58
English town, famed for its medieval cathedral : ELY

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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