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Jeanette K. Brill
Jeanette K. Brill

New York Times, Friday, September 25, 1981

23-Across : Large crucifix

Author:
Jeanette K. Brill
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 259 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Jeanette K. Brill has 79 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 2 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,644
Across
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Border on : ABUT
5
Port city of Iraq : BASRA
10
Accepted standards : PARS
14
Stalagmite milieu : CAVE
15
Modern Greek name for Greece : ELLAS
16
Trans-___, U.S.S.R. range : ALAI
17
Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps" : THERITEOFSPRING
20
Word in a film ad : STARRING
21
Kind of kitchen : EATIN
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Stassen, to Eisenhower in 1953 : AIDE
23
Large crucifix : ROOD
25
Pass : ELAPSE
28
Moderated : TEMPERED
32
Ear: Comb. form : AURI
33
Item for John Sloan : EASEL
34
Deity who became Tahiti's national god : ORO
35
Behave in a formal manner : STANDONCEREMONY
39
Chariot chaser : EER
40
Gossip : ONDIT
41
Date for Duclos : AMIE
42
Too long, as a speech : DRAWNOUT
44
Danish chess master : LARSEN
46
Regarding : INRE
47
Insincere statements : CANT
48
Plant fiber : ISTLE
51
"And the ___ stars set their watch": T. Campbell : SENTINEL
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S. Y. Agnon novel : THEBRIDALCANOPY
58
In ___ (in position) : SITU
59
Singer Haggard : MERLE
60
Churchill's foreign minister : EDEN
61
Declare positively : AVER
62
Abbot's subordinate : PRIOR
63
Lillums Lovewell's beau : TEEN
Down
1
New Testament book : ACTS
2
Thai money : BAHT
3
Eye part : UVEA
4
Diamondback inhabiting a salt marsh : TERRAPIN
5
Happen (to) : BETIDE
6
Coeur d'___, Idaho : ALENE
7
Plod in paludous places : SLOG
8
Brit. air arm : RAF
9
" ... egregiously an ___": Iago : ASS
10
Ostentation : PARADE
11
Came down to terra firma : ALIT
12
Romany wife : RANI
13
Index : SIGN
18
Georgia O'Keeffe's "Black ___" : IRIS
19
Streisand hit song : PEOPLE
23
Adjust an alarm clock : RESET
24
Henri Philippe Benoni ___ Joseph Pétain : OMER
25
Let up : EASED
26
Minstrel : LUTER
27
Palm cockatoo of Australia : ARARA
28
Unexpressed but implied : TACIT
29
Studies : ROOMS
30
The Cubs banked on him for years : ERNIE
31
Ranking member of a group : DOYEN
33
Provide, as with talents : ENDUE
36
California mountain pass : DONNER
37
___ about (approximately) : ONOR
38
Strict French general: 17th century : MARTINET
43
He straightened up and flew right : WILBUR
44
Fierce piercer on a steed : LANCER
45
B'way org. : ANTA
47
Instrument for Yo-Yo Ma : CELLO
48
Words before boy or girl : ITSA
49
Weapon for Mack the Knife : SHIV
50
Place for a chapeau : TETE
51
Kálmán operetta : SARI
52
Knot : NODE
53
Fleuret's kin : EPEE
54
Redgrave or Fontanne : LYNN
56
Deviling : IMP
57
Lehár's "___ Rastelbinder" : DER

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

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