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Jeanette K. Brill
Jeanette K. Brill

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New York Times, Sunday, February 15, 1981

37-Down : ___ favor (fawn)

Author:
Jeanette K. Brill
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 72, Avg Word Len: 5.27, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 538 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 125, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 36.2
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. 11,422
Across
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Tarry : BIDE
5
Begat : SIRED
10
Deadly : FATAL
15
Horn of a crescent moon : CUSP
19
Arabic letter : ALIF
20
Accrue : ENURE
21
___ Gay : ENOLA
22
One of the Aleutians : ATTU
23
Yeomen of the guards : BEEFEATERS
25
Skinny one : STRINGBEAN
27
Muscle : EXTENSOR
28
"Dragonwyck" author : SETON
30
Exuberant : YEASTY
31
Gloat : CROW
32
Surname in a Broadway musical : PERON
33
Canaan deity : BAAL
34
"Lady Be Good" playwright : BOLTON
37
Freight : CARGO
38
Piazzas : TERRACES
42
Mirador : ORIEL
43
Dolt : MUTTONHEAD
45
Castor, e.g. : HAT
46
Hollywood writer-producer : WALD
47
Arid : SERE
48
Pk. and bu. : AMTS
49
Birthplace of Galileo : PISA
50
Parks' successor at Atlantic City : ELY
51
Redhead : CARROTTOP
55
Crab or snake : RACER
56
Cole Porter's "It's ___" : DELOVELY
59
Main Line town in Pa. : PAOLI
60
Oyster's enemy : WINKLE
61
Sardonic form of humor : IRONY
62
Author of "Games People Play" : BERNE
63
Aptly named novelist : READE
64
Emulate Mamie Stover : REVOLT
66
Caravansary : SERAI
67
Ship routes : SEALANES
70
Frenchman's awl : ALENE
71
Dense fog : PEASOUPER
73
Little, to Sandy : SMA
74
Araceous plant : TARO
75
Washer cycle : SPIN
77
Roman historian : LIVY
78
Bender : TOOT
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Follower of Paul or Benedict : INE
80
Leg art : CHEESECAKE
84
Caesar's last word : BRUTE
85
Strange events : ODDITIES
88
Hart or Stephen : CRANE
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Put paint on : COATED
90
Dogfall, in wrestling : DRAW
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Burrows : LAIRS
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Schmidt works here : BONN
93
Commination : THREAT
96
Body in Paris : SENAT
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Part of an academic year : SEMESTER
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"Simple Simon ___" : METAPIEMAN
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Bunk! : APPLESAUCE
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Explorer Tasman : ABEL
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Jug for liquids : CRUSE
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Culpability : GUILT
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Clothed : CLAD
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Cape : NESS
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A deadly sin : ANGER
111
Major followers : ETTES
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Heath and Nugent : TEDS
Down
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Bunyan's blue ox : BABE
2
Holly : ILEX
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Bantingize : DIET
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Brought about : EFFECTED
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Habituate : SEASON
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Under one's guidance : INTOW
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One who repents : RUER
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Stray : ERR
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Napoleon, e.g. : DESSERT
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Swag : FESTOON
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Composer Bruckner : ANTON
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Rent : TORN
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"The Greatest" : ALI
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Pieces passing through deadeyes : LANYARDS
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Occult doctrine or science : CABALA
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Ouray's people : UTES
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R.b.i. or e.r.a. : STAT
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Niggling : PUNY
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Register : ENROL
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Paraphernalia : GEAR
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Therefore : ERGO
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He wrote "Marius the Epicurean" : PATER
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Belabor : BEAT
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Submitted : BOWED
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Church vestment : ORALE
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Pusillanimous : LILYLIVERED
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___ favor (fawn) : CURRY
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Largo and presto : TEMPI
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Takes the coward's way : CHICKENSOUT
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Item for Peter Hurd : EASEL
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Fixed look : STARE
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Farinaceous : MEALY
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Caucasian, in Hawaii : HAOLE
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Inkling : SCENT
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China's gift to Washington Zoo : PANDA
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"Billy Budd" is one : OPERA
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"___ Bulba," Gogol novel : TARAS
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"Pagliacci" role : TONIO
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Money in Meshed : RIAL
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Site of the U. of Maine : ORONO
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Field mouse : VOLE
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Pall : WEARY
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U.S. dress designer : BEENE
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Female sandpiper : REEVE
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Proportion : RATIO
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Bushbuck's cousin : ELAND
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Hale and Hari : SPIES
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Thwart a plan : SPIKE
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Indulge in cabotinage : EMOTE
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Satisfied : SATED
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Prussian lancers : ULANS
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Hip-thigh ailment : SCIATICA
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Dog-days word : PHEW
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Negotiate : TRANSACT
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TV device : SCANNER
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Assam silkworm : ERIA
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Rate for transporting : CARTAGE
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Minstrel end man : BONES
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Dreams of youth : IDEALS
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One-horse carriage : TRAP
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Travelers with tails : COMETS
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Lend-___ Act: 1941 : LEASE
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Outlaw Starr : BELLE
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Govt. agent : TMAN
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A wife of Hercules : HEBE
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U.S. 1 and U.S. 66 : RTES
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Complacent : SMUG
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Barbecue accessory : SPIT
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Bulrush : TULE
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Plant form : ECAD
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Smith and Barber : REDS
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Sea bird : ERN
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Wall St. term : PUT

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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