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Maura B. Jacobson
Maura B. Jacobson

New York Times, Friday, March 10, 1978

17-Across : Sky event

Author:
Maura B. Jacobson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { B }, Scrabble score: 317 (avg 1.66)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 33.8 Grid has duplicate clues.
Maura B. Jacobson has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
David Steinberg notes:

Clue for 14-Across missing hyphen after underscore; left as in the original.

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A
2
M
3
A
4
H
5
S
6
C
7
A
8
L
9
A
10
C
11
H
12
A
13
W
14
T
O
N
O
15
E
O
L
I
C
16
H
O
R
A
17
A
U
T
U
18
M
N
A
L
E
Q
19
U
I
N
O
X
20
P
E
A
S
A
N
T
S
21
U
N
T
I
D
Y
22
E
K
E
S
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D
A
D
A
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W
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E
M
E
T
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T
R
I
O
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H
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A
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L
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P
I
L
A
U
31
S
H
I
N
32
D
O
Z
E
33
E
C
L
I
P
34
S
E
O
F
T
35
H
E
S
U
N
36
S
K
I
D
37
A
I
N
T
38
E
V
E
R
T
39
T
S
E
40
J
U
N
G
41
P
R
I
D
E
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M
I
T
E
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D
A
M
A
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S
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L
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E
E
V
E
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P
O
S
I
T
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I
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V
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E
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W
I
N
T
E
R
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S
O
L
S
T
I
C
E
S
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I
N
C
A
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N
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C
E
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N
E
R
A
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G
A
E
L
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E
N
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R
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G
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U
© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,436
Across
1
Delhi nanny : AMAH
5
Milan's La ___ : SCALA
10
Quid of tobacco, in Dogpatch : CHAW
14
"___ Bungay," book by H.G. Wells : TONO
15
Borne by the wind : EOLIC
16
Kibbutz dance : HORA
17
Sky event : AUTUMNALEQUINOX
20
European revolters in 1524 : PEASANTS
21
Disordered : UNTIDY
22
Scrapes by, with "out" : EKES
23
Relative of Cubism : DADA
24
"I remember ... the way ___": Swinburne : WEMET
26
Musketeers or Magi : TRIO
27
Holbrook : HAL
30
Turkish rice dish : PILAU
31
Tibia : SHIN
32
Nod off : DOZE
33
Sky event : ECLIPSEOFTHESUN
36
Lose traction : SKID
37
"___ We Got Fun?" : AINT
38
Chrissie of the courts : EVERT
39
Mao ___-tung : TSE
40
Freud's colleague : JUNG
41
One of the deadly sins : PRIDE
42
Acarid : MITE
43
Lady of Spain : DAMA
44
Magician's cache : SLEEVE
47
Certain : POSITIVE
51
Sky events : WINTERSOLSTICES
53
Quechuan : INCA
54
Sister's child : NIECE
55
Tiber tributary : NERA
56
Writer Greene : GAEL
57
Door sign : ENTER
58
Author of "The Black Prince" : GRAU
Down
1
Nipa palm : ATAP
2
Pouting expression : MOUE
3
Broadway theater : ANTA
4
"Downstairs" role : HOUSEMAID
5
Barracuda : SENNET
6
Checkroom items : COATS
7
"___ well" : ALLS
8
Trygve : LIE
9
Make familiar : ACQUAINT
10
Actress-dancer Rivera : CHITA
11
"___ soit ... " : HONI
12
Grandson of Jacob : AROD
13
Impressionable : WAXY
18
Greasepaint : MAKEUP
19
Open a clasp : UNDO
23
Proceed aimlessly : DRIFT
24
Parts of candles : WICKS
25
___ May, in "Tobacco Road" : ELLIE
26
Bootlace : THONG
27
Sprinkled the lawn : HOSED
28
Sky blue : AZURE
29
Pre-Easter period : LENT
30
Annoying one : PEST
31
View from Notre Dame : SEINE
32
Going off the track : DEVIATING
34
Gironde wine : SAUTERNE
35
Kind of crab : HERMIT
40
Jazz jargon : JIVE
41
Ken Stabler, often : PASSER
42
Lithium is the lightest one known : METAL
43
"La ___ Vita" : DOLCE
44
Barfly's gulp : SWIG
45
Director Wertmüller : LINA
46
Suffix with consist and subsist : ENCE
47
Vers-librist : POET
48
Pastry chef's aide : ICER
49
Actress Miles : VERA
50
Biblical twin : ESAU
52
Satanic deed : SIN

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

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