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Grace Fabbroni
Grace Fabbroni

New York Times, Friday, April 4, 1980

42-Down : Sales pitch

Author:
Grace Fabbroni
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 299 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Grace Fabbroni has 20 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,105
Across
1
Kismet : FATE
5
Part of an early aviator's wardrobe : SCARF
10
Lively dance : HORA
14
Made a perfect serve : ACED
15
Hiding place : CACHE
16
Revise : EDIT
17
Start of a quotation from "Hamlet" : WHENSORROWSCOME
20
Roundworm or eelworm : NEMATODE
21
Latin teacher's command : PARSE
22
Roman goddess of plenty : OPS
23
Hide : PELT
25
Very, to a violinist : ASSAI
29
A certain spice : VARIETY
32
Quotation: Part II : THEYCOMENOT
35
Gypsy gentleman : ROM
37
Boundary : METE
38
Does a K.P. chore : PARES
39
Tokyo beverage : SAKE
40
However : YET
41
Quotation: Part III : SINGLESPIES
43
One on a slate : NOMINEE
45
Teddy bear's live rival : PANDA
46
Mars' counterpart : ARES
47
Cuckoo : ANI
49
Winged : ALATE
52
Cheapest accommodations on a ship : STEERAGE
57
End of the quotation : BUTINBATTALIONS
60
British county, for short : OXON
61
Rumor : BRUIT
62
Cookie : SNAP
63
Slangy assents : YEPS
64
"Piece of cake" : CINCH
65
Inspiring fear : EERY
Down
1
Toady : FAWN
2
Flu symptom : ACHE
3
Rain cats and dogs : TEEM
4
Actress Purviance : EDNA
5
Newspaper first : SCOOP
6
King and queen, e.g. : CARDS
7
Israeli port : ACRE
8
Greek consonant : RHO
9
" ... but ___ are chosen" : FEW
10
Supreme sorceress : HECATE
11
Redolence : ODOR
12
Fellies : RIMS
13
To ___ (precisely) : ATEE
18
Self-controlled one : STOIC
19
Acrobatic maneuver : SPLIT
23
Jury group : PANEL
24
Irregular : EROSE
25
Frost's "Tree ___ Window" : ATMY
26
Brightness : SHEEN
27
Squabble : SETTO
28
Affirmative : AYE
29
Threshold : VERGE
30
The Orient Express was one : TRAIN
31
Joined : YOKED
33
Conjecture : OPINE
34
Ancestral spirits worshiped by Romans : MANES
36
Western hill : MESA
39
Resort of a sort : SPA
41
"Debutantalizer" : SIREN
42
Sales pitch : SPIEL
44
First canonical hour : MATINS
47
Place to find mementos : ATTIC
48
Ray Milland's birthplace : NEATH
49
"___ Named Sue" : ABOY
50
De follower : LUXE
51
Over : ATOP
52
Astonish : STUN
53
Word with sun or moon : RISE
54
Super : AONE
55
Snarl : GNAR
56
Spot : ESPY
58
British TV group : BBC
59
Notable nickname : ARI

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

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