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Maura B. Jacobson
Maura B. Jacobson

New York Times, Tuesday, January 24, 1978

Author:
Maura B. Jacobson
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 298 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7, Grid flow: 34.4
Maura B. Jacobson has 63 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 3 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,391
Across
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Neither fem. nor neut. : MASC
5
Cooking direction : SCALD
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He envisions all our tomorrows : SEER
14
Site of Koko Head : OAHU
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Musical passage performed by all : TUTTI
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Where Timbuktu is : MALI
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Wall St. items : PREFERREDSTOCKS
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Up from the ranks on one's own : SELFMADE
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"Hail ___, blithe Spirit!": Shelley : TOTHEE
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Osculation features : LIPS
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Buzzard's cousin : KITE
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Benefits : AVAILS
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Spectator count : GATE
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Like steak tartare : RAW
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Size prefix : MAGNI
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Jeanne ___ : DARC
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First-rate : AONE
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Wall St. businesses : BROKERAGEHOUSES
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Neighbor of Burma : LAOS
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Deadlocked : EVEN
39
Practical : UTILE
40
Windup : END
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Sponsorship : EGIS
42
Pit remover : STONER
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Bagnold : ENID
44
Color guard's holding : FLAG
45
Marcus ___ Hanna, McKinley adviser : ALONZO
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Prototype : ORIGINAL
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Wall St. concern : DOWJONESAVERAGE
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Notion: Prefix : IDEO
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Lively, in Lille : ANIME
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Muscat's country : OMAN
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Minuscule : TINY
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Kind of beam : LASER
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Spanish painter : SERT
Down
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Implements for "seven maids" : MOPS
2
Alpine stream : AARE
3
Cartoonist Silverstein : SHEL
4
Sleeve accessories : CUFFLINKS
5
Parts of a slip : STRAPS
6
Morsels for Muffet : CURDS
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Fit to ___ : ATEE
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Inc., in Canada : LTD
9
Couplet : DISTITCH
10
"When 'Omer ___ 'is bloomin' lyre": Kipling : SMOTE
11
Apiece : EACH
12
Sommer : ELKE
13
Become airborne : RISE
18
One of the Dionnes : EMILIE
19
Kind of bag or board : TOTE
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Actress Valentine : KAREN
24
Stroll : AMBLE
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Monitor lizard : VARAN
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"___ Age," book by Alex Comfort : AGOOD
27
Plum varieties : GAGES
28
Fiddler's aid : ROSIN
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Anoint, old style : ANELE
30
Hamelin's river : WESER
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Michelangelo masterpiece : DAVID
33
Helicopters' kin : AUTOGIROS
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Like some schools : REGIONAL
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Blackout period : OUTAGE
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Singer Stuarti : ENZO
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Wood fragment : SLIVER
43
Have fun with : ENJOY
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Bowler's unit : FRAME
45
Mine entrance : ADIT
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Lombardy city : LODI
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Author Wister : OWEN
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Medical suffix : OSIS
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Appellation : NAME
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Seaweed product : AGAR
51
Mardi Gras follower : LENT
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Queen of Spain: 1900–30 : ENA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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